The Yin and Yang of cell cycle progression and differentiation in the oligodendroglial lineage |
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Authors: | Nguyen Laurent Borgs Laurence Vandenbosch Renaud Mangin Jean-Marie Beukelaers Pierre Moonen Gustave Gallo Vittorio Malgrange Brigitte Belachew Shibeshih |
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Affiliation: | Developmental Neurobiology Unit, Center for Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, University of Liège, C.H.U. Sart Tilman, B36, 4000 Liège, Belgium. |
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Abstract: | In white matter disorders such as leukodystrophies (LD), periventricular leucomalacia (PVL), or multiple sclerosis (MS), the hypomyelination or the remyelination failure by oligodendrocyte progenitor cells involves errors in the sequence of events that normally occur during development when progenitors proliferate, migrate through the white matter, contact the axon, and differentiate into myelin-forming oligodendrocytes. Multiple mechanisms underlie the eventual progressive deterioration that typifies the natural history of developmental demyelination in LD and PVL and of adult-onset demyelination in MS. Over the past few years, pathophysiological studies have mostly focused on seeking abnormalities that impede oligodendroglial maturation at the level of migration, myelination, and survival. In contrast, there has been a strikingly lower interest for early proliferative and differentiation events that are likely to be equally critical for white matter development and myelin repair. This review highlights the Yin and Yang principles of interactions between intrinsic factors that coordinately regulate progenitor cell division and the onset of differentiation, i.e. the initial steps of oligodendrocyte lineage progression that are obviously crucial in health and diseases. |
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