An amino terminal phosphorylation motif regulates intranuclear compartmentalization of Olig2 in neural progenitor cells.

ABSTRACT: The bHLH transcription factor Olig2 is expressed in cycling neural progenitor cells but also in terminally differentiated, myelinating oligodendrocytes. Sustained expression of Olig2 is counterintuitive because all known functions of the protein in expansion of neural progenitors and specification of oligodendrocyte progenitors are completed with the formation of mature white matter. How are the biological functions of Olig2 suppressed in terminally differentiated oligodendrocytes? In previous studies, we have shown that a triple serine motif in the amino terminus of Olig2 is phosphorylated in cycling neural progenitors but not in their differentiated progeny. We now show that phosphorylation of the triple serine motif regulates intranuclear compartmentalization of murine Olig2. Phosphoryl

SUBMITTER: Meijer DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4061392 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature