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Review
. 2020 Aug;68(8):1604-1618.
doi: 10.1002/glia.23837. Epub 2020 May 27.

Chromatin remodelers in oligodendroglia

Carlos Parras  1 , Corentine Marie  1 , Chuntao Zhao  2 , Qing Richard Lu  2
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Chromatin remodelers in oligodendroglia

Carlos Parras et al. Glia. 2020 Aug.
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Abstract

Oligodendrocytes, the myelinating cells in the vertebrate central nervous system, produce myelin sheaths to enable saltatory propagation of action potentials. The process of oligodendrocyte myelination entails a stepwise progression from precursor specification to differentiation, which is coordinated by a series of transcriptional and chromatin remodeling events. ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling enzymes, which utilize ATP as an energy source to control chromatin dynamics and regulate the accessibility of chromatin to transcriptional regulators, are critical for oligodendrocyte lineage development and regeneration. In this review, we focus on the latest insights into the spatial and temporal specificity of chromatin remodelers during oligodendrocyte development, myelinogenesis, and regeneration. We will also bring together various plausible mechanisms by which lineage specific transcriptional regulators coordinate with chromatin remodeling factors for programming genomic landscapes to specifically modulate these different processes during developmental myelination and remyelination upon injury.

Keywords: CNS development; chromatin remodelers; oligodendrogenesis; transcription factors; transcription regulation.

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