1 Center for Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY 12208, USA
2 Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
3 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
*Author for correspondence (e-mail: Temples{at}mail.amc.edu)
Accepted 15 July 2002
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SUMMARY |
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Progenitor cells isolated from the embryonic mouse cortex were followed as they underwent their next cell division in vitro. Numb distribution was predominantly asymmetric during asymmetric cell divisions yielding a ß-tubulin III- progenitor and a ß-tubulin III+ neuronal cell (P/N divisions) and predominantly symmetric during divisions producing two neurons (N/N divisions). Cells from the numb knockout mouse underwent significantly fewer asymmetric P/N divisions compared to wild type, indicating a causal role for Numb.
When progenitor cells derived from early (E10) cortex undergo P/N divisions, both daughters express the progenitor marker Nestin, indicating their immature state, and Numb segregates into the P or N daughter with similar frequency. In contrast, when progenitor cells derived from later E13 cortex (during active neurogenesis in vivo) undergo P/N divisions they produce a Nestin+ progenitor and a Nestin neuronal daughter, and Numb segregates preferentially into the neuronal daughter. Thus during mouse cortical neurogenesis, as in Drosophila neurogenesis, asymmetric segregation of Numb could inhibit Notch activity in one daughter to induce neuronal differentiation.
At terminal divisions generating two neurons, Numb was symmetrically distributed in approximately 80% of pairs and asymmetrically in 20%. We found a significant association between Numb distribution and morphology: most sisters of neuron pairs with symmetric Numb were similar and most with asymmetric Numb were different. Developing cortical neurons with Numb had longer processes than those without.
Numb is expressed by neuroblasts and stem cells and can be asymmetrically segregated by both. These data indicate Numb has an important role in generating asymmetric cell divisions and diverse cell fates during mouse cortical development.
Key words: Stem cells, Progenitor cells, Asymmetric cell division, Fate determination, Mouse, Cerebral cortex
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INTRODUCTION |
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At embryonic day 10 (E10) in the mouse, the primordial cerebral cortex consists of a single layer of proliferating neuroepithelial cells. Clonal studies indicate that approximately 15% of these are multipotent stem cells that generate both neurons and glia, while the remainder are restricted neuroblasts that generate solely neurons (Qian et al., 1998; Qian et al., 2000
). Both these progenitor cell types can undergo repeated asymmetric cell divisions, as observed by time-lapse microscopy of clonal development in vitro. At first, both neuroblasts and stem cells undergo asymmetric cell divisions generating neurons. Later, stem cells undergo a specific type of asymmetric cell division at which point they start to produce glia (Qian et al., 1998
; Qian et al., 2000
). Interestingly, the largely asymmetric, neural lineage trees of mouse cortical progenitor cells are similar to those of invertebrates (Sulston and Horvitz, 1977
; Sulston et al., 1983
; Doe and Technau, 1993
; Shen et al., 1998
), suggesting that this is a fundamental, evolutionarily conserved feature of neural development.
There is mounting evidence that repeated asymmetric divisions of cortical progenitor cells observed in vitro also occur in vivo. The slow increase in cortical cell number and the proliferation characteristics of progenitor cells during neurogenesis suggest predominantly asymmetric division modes (Rakic, 1995; Mione et al., 1997
; Reid et al., 1997
). Clones that span multiple cortical layers are observed both after retroviral labeling and in chimeric embryos, consistent with repeated asymmetric division of ventricular zone cells (Tan and Breen, 1993
; Kornack and Rakic, 1995
; Reid et al., 1995
; Mione et al., 1997
). More recently, observation of embryonic cortical slices has shown that radial glia, now recognized as major neuronal progenitors, divide asymmetrically to produce a neuron and another radial progenitor (Miyata et al., 2001
; Noctor et al., 2001
; Noctor et al., 2002
). Hence it is likely that asymmetric cell divisions play an important role in generating diverse neural cells in vertebrates, as they do in invertebrates.
Molecular mechanisms underlying asymmetric cell divisions have been elucidated in invertebrate systems. In Drosophila, Numb is a key factor in asymmetric neural progenitor cell divisions. In PNS sensory organ precursor cells (SOPs) Numb segregates in a crescent to one side of the SOP during metaphase and is then found in the IIb rather than the IIa daughter. Subsequently Numb directs asymmetric division of both IIa and IIb cells. CNS neuroblasts divide asymmetrically repeatedly, giving another neuroblast and a ganglion mother cell (GMC) at each division. Numb protein becomes localized to a crescent in the neuroblast, and as division ensues it segregates into the GMC. Numb can direct further asymmetric cell division of GMCs (Rhyu et al., 1994; Knoblich et al., 1995
; Spana et al., 1995
; Spana and Doe, 1996
; Buescher et al., 1998
).
Numb acts at multiple points in these lineages: at early stages to determine progenitor cell types and at terminal cell divisions to distinguish final fates. Loss of Numb function in CNS and PNS lineages equalizes cells, producing two identical daughters (Uemura et al., 1989; Rhyu et al., 1994
; Spana et al., 1995
). However, Numb acquisition does not confer one particular cell fate: Numb can be segregated into progenitor cells, neurons, or glia (Rhyu et al., 1994
; Spana et al., 1995
; Gho et al., 1999
; Van de Bor et al., 2000
; Roegiers et al., 2001
).
Vertebrate homologues of Drosophila numb have been identified in mouse, rat, chicken and human (Zhong et al., 1996; Dho et al., 1999
; Verdi et al., 1996
; Wakamatsu et al., 1999
; Salcini et al., 1998
; Verdi et al., 1999
), and are structurally similar: for example mouse Numb can rescue the fly Numb loss-of-function phenotype (Zhong et al., 1996
; Verdi et al., 1996
). The role of Numb in vertebrates is not yet clear, and there are some apparently contradictory findings. There are indications for a role of Numb in progenitor cells. For example, in mouse cortical ventricular zone cells, Numb may be localized at the apical membrane so that a horizontal division would distribute Numb into the apical daughter, believed to be the progenitor based on its migratory behavior (Chenn and McConnell, 1995
; Zhong et al., 1996
). Over-expression of Numb in vivo in the chick CNS enhances progenitor proliferation (Wakamatsu et al., 1999
) and knockout of numb in mice results in premature expression of neuronal markers, again indicating a role in neural progenitor cells (Zhong et al., 2000
). In contrast, there are also indications for a role of Numb in neuronal differentiation. Over-expression of Numb in vitro leads to greater neuron production, and numb mutant mice have impaired neuronal differentiation in selected CNS and PNS lineages (Verdi et al., 1996
; Verdi et al., 1999
; Zilian et al., 2001
).
It is quite possible that Numb has multiple roles during neural development, in progenitor maintenance and differentiation. Still, an important question regarding Numb function remains unresolved: no study to date has determined whether Numb plays a similar role in generating asymmetric cell divisions in the vertebrate as it does in Drosophila. Asymmetric Numb distribution has been observed in mouse cortical ventricular zone cells (Zhong et al., 1996), in chick neuroepithelial cells and neural crest lineages (Wakamatsu et al., 1999
; Wakamatsu et al., 2000
), and in rat retinal neuroepithelial cells (Cayouette et al., 2001
), but it has not been shown that this leads to production of different cell fates. Moreover, for cortical progenitor cells it is not known whether Numb is indeed asymmetrically segregated during mitosis. Resolution of these issues requires following Numb distribution during progenitor cell divisions, and correlating this with daughter cell fates. Because this is currently impossible to accomplish in vivo, we investigated this question using clonal cultures of cortical progenitor cells as a model system.
Numb expression was examined in dissociated cells from normal and numb knockout E10-E14 mouse embryos as they divided and generated differentiated progeny. We provide direct evidence that Numb is asymmetrically distributed during cortical progenitor cell divisions, and that this is linked to asymmetry in cell fate in both early progenitor cells and at terminal cell divisions generating two neurons.
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MATERIALS AND METHODS |
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Cell culture
Single cells were plated at clonal density into 12 µl of culture medium in poly-L-lysine coated Terasaki wells in serum-free culture medium: DMEM with L-glutamine, sodium pyruvate, B-27, N-2 (Gibco), 1 mM N-acetyl-cysteine (Sigma) and 10 ng/ml bFGF (Gibco) added as a mitogen. Plated cells were incubated at 35°C with 6% CO2 and 100% humidity.
Immunohistochemistry
Sections
E10.5 embryos were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde (PFA) in 0.1 M phosphate buffer (PB) (pH 7.4) at 4°C overnight and cryoprotected in 30% sucrose in 0.1 M PB. 10 µm cryostat sections were blocked in 0.1% Triton X-100 and 1% normal goat serum in PBS for 15 minutes. Primary antibody diluted in blocking solution was added overnight at 4°C. For Numb staining, affinity-purified rabbit polyclonal antibody (1:500) was added overnight at room temperature.
Acutely isolated and cultured cells
Dissociated cells were plated for 2-4 hours for acute staining, or cultured for 1-7 days. Cells were fixed in ice-cold 4% PFA at room temperature for 30 minutes. Affinity-purified rabbit anti-Numb antibody (1:500 with 10% normal goat serum) was added overnight at 4°C, and visualized with Alexa 546 goat anti-rabbit IgG (1:200; Molecular Probes) or biotinylated goat anti-rabbit IgG (1:200; Vector Labs) followed by streptavidin Alexa 546 (1:200; Molecular Probes) or ABC-VIP kit (Vector Labs). For monoclonal anti-ß-tubulin III (1:400; Sigma), and Nestin (1:4; Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank), fixed cells were permeabilized with 100% methanol at 20°C for 5 minutes, and incubated with primary antibody overnight at 4°C. Staining was visualized using Alexa 488 or 546 goat anti-mouse IgG (1:200; Molecular Probes).
Time-lapse video microscopy
Cells were placed under an inverted microscope, and the image captured with a CCD camera connected to a Panasonic time-lapse video recorder. Cultures were monitored for up to 7 days, then fixed and stained for Numb and ß-tubulin III expression.
BrdU incorporation assay
E10-12 cortical cells were cultured in Terasaki microwells and pairs were identified at 16 hours. 10 µg/ml BrdU was added to the wells for 8-10 hours. Cells were washed, fixed in 4% PFA and stained using an anti-BrdU antibody directly conjugated to fluorescein (1:10; Becton-Dickinson) and ß-tubulin III.
Morphological measurements of neurons
Comparison of neurite length
Low density cortical cultures were fixed at 7 days and stained for Numb and ß-tubulin III. Images of all neurons were digitized and total neurite length was measured (Scion software) and compared between Numb+ and Numb- cells by Students t-test.
Comparison of sister neuron morphology
Sister neurons were scored for number of primary processes, average process length, and branch points (Scion software). Differences in these values between sister neurons were calculated. The differences obtained for Numb symmetric neuron pairs and Numb asymmetric neuron pairs were compared by Students t-test.
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RESULTS |
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Numb is symmetrically and asymmetrically distributed during embryonic mouse cortical progenitor cell divisions
Acutely isolated cells from E10-E13 cerebral cortex were sometimes observed to have a crescent of Numb staining, as shown in Fig. 2F, similar to Numb crescents described in insects (Rhyu et al., 1994; Knoblich et al., 1995
; Spana et al., 1995
). The low frequency of crescents (7% of total cells) suggests they form in a narrow time window, possibly during metaphase, as they do in insects.
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Asymmetric distribution of Numb is associated with asymmetric cortical cell divisions
Given the significant incidence of asymmetric Numb distribution by cortical progenitor cells, we investigated whether this is related to asymmetric cell division, i.e. production of two different daughter cell fates.
During the early embryonic period, most differentiated cells generated within the cerebral cortex are neurons, while most glia are produced postnatally. Hence, using the neuronal marker ß-tubulin III we could theoretically detect the following types of daughter cell pairs from embryonic cortical progenitor cells: two progenitor cells (P/P), a progenitor and a neuron (P/N) and two neurons (N/N). Without other distinguishing markers, we do not know whether the two cells in a P/P or an N/N pair are the same or different. However, a P/N division is clearly asymmetric, hence we focused on this type of pair.
Single E10-E14 cortical progenitor cells were plated and allowed to undergo their next cell division in vitro. Pairs of cortical cells were identified, fixed 24 hours after plating and stained for both Numb and ß-tubulin III; P/N (ß-tub-/ß-tub+) and N/N pairs (both ß-tub+) (Fig. 3) were identified. As shown in Table 2, the vast majority of P/N pairs (81% at E10 and 72% at E13) showed asymmetry in Numb distribution. Similarly, the vast majority of N/N pairs (79% at E10 and 88% at E13) showed symmetric Numb distribution. A Chi-squared test shows a highly significant association between asymmetric Numb distribution and the asymmetric P/N fate, and between symmetric Numb distribution and the N/N fate.
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E10.5 mutant embryos were identified by their distinct phenotype. Dorsal telencephalic tissue was dissected, and progenitor cells isolated from mutant and wild type littermates were cultured separately. 24 hours after plating, pairs of daughter cells from single progenitor cells were identified, fixed, and stained for ß-tubulin III.
There was a significant reduction, approximately two fold, in asymmetric P/N cell divisions in the mutant mice compared to wild-type littermates (Table 3), and production of P/P divisions increased by an equivalent amount. The percentage of N/N pairs was unchanged in the mutant compared to wild type. This suggests that without Numb, progenitor cells are impaired in their ability to undergo an asymmetric division producing a neuronal daughter and another progenitor cell, while their production of two neurons remains unhindered. Long-term analysis of Numb mutant progenitor pairs was not possible because the cells died by 3 days in vitro, indicating Numb may be essential for neural cell survival.
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The major period of cortical neurogenesis begins around E12 in the mouse, accompanied by an increase in asymmetric cell divisions (Takahashi et al., 1996). We examined the direction of Numb segregation in asymmetric P/N pairs derived from this period. Surprisingly, by E13, the direction of Numb movement was strongly towards the neuronal daughter: of 26 P/N pairs, Numb segregated into the neuronal daughter in 77% of cases. By E14, Numb was even more inclined to be segregated into the neuronal daughter: in 82% of P/N pairs (Fig. 4A).
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Numb level influences neuronal morphology
Previously we showed, using long-term time-lapse recording, that both neuroblasts and stem cells from the cerebral cortex had asymmetric lineage trees (Qian et al., 1998; Qian et al., 2000
). By staining time-lapse recorded clones, we found that Numb was expressed throughout the lineages in both stem cell and neuroblast clones (Fig. 5). Moreover, at terminal divisions generating two neurons, Numb could be symmetrically expressed in both daughters (Fig. 5B) or asymmetrically expressed in only one daughter (Fig. 5A) (because of the small number of lineages examined, the frequency was not quantified). The fact that Numb could be asymmetrically distributed at terminal neuroblast divisions was interesting given that in Drosophila asymmetric Numb distribution in the GMC can generate two different neurons (Spana and Doe, 1996
; Buescher et al., 1998
). In an earlier study we found that 80% of terminal neuron pairs from E14 mouse cortex cultured for 14 days had similar morphologies, while 20% were different (Qian et al., 1998
). Could Numb distribution at the final division of mouse neuroblasts determine whether the final neuronal fates were the same or different, as it does in Drosophila? To investigate this question, we examined Numb expression and neuronal phenotype in sister pairs.
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To examine whether a similar relationship between Numb distribution and sister neuron morphology existed over the longer term, we plated E10.5 cortical cells, identified cell pairs, and followed terminal neuron pairs for 4 days as they elaborated processes. The pairs were then fixed and stained for ß-tubulin III and Numb (Fig. 6B). 72% of these 4-day-old pairs had symmetric Numb and 19% had asymmetric Numb, which is very similar to the percentages seen at 24 hours for E14 pairs (78% and 18%) noted earlier. As in the short-term studies, visual assessment showed an obvious relationship between asymmetry and symmetry in Numb distribution and overall morphology of the cells. In particular, we noticed that when Numb was expressed asymmetrically, the Numb+ daughter usually had longer processes: the only exception we observed is shown in Fig. 6Bc. Numb+ neurons also had fewer, less branched processes, including dendrites, than their Numb sisters (Fig. 6B). In Fig. 6Bd for example, a pair of neurons has unequal Numb and the difference in process number and branching is noticeable, while a similar pair of neurons in panel 6Bh has equal Numb and does not exhibit this difference.
To quantify the relationship between Numb expression and process formation, we measured total process length for E10-derived cortical neurons cultured for 7 days. Numb+ neurons elaborated significantly longer processes than Numb neurons over this time-period, as shown in Fig. 7. These data indicate a close relationship between Numb distribution at terminal neuroblast divisions and the generation of similar or different sister neuron types.
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DISCUSSION |
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Numb can be concentrated at the apical border of dividing cortical ventricular zone cells in vivo (Zhong et al., 1996; Zhong et al., 1997
). We showed Numb can be seen in crescents on acutely isolated cortical progenitor cells, and that it can be differentially distributed into daughter cells during a cell division. Even within 10 minutes after mitosis, 46% of E10-E12 cortical progenitor cell pairs have Numb protein in one daughter and not the other, demonstrating a high frequency of asymmetric Numb segregation. Recently, asymmetric Numb distribution has been described during cell division in the retina (Cayouette et al., 2001
).
In this study, we found a significant association between asymmetric Numb distribution and asymmetric cell fate. The fact that asymmetric Numb localization is visible in daughter cells as they are exiting mitosis, (Fig. 2, Table 1), strongly suggests it is an early determinant of asymmetric fate. A causal role for Numb in generating asymmetric divisions is also indicated by the observation that P/N divisions are markedly decreased in the numb knockout mouse compared to the wild type. The fact that some asymmetric cell divisions still occurred in the mutant implies the existence of other asymmetric cell determinants operating at E10. However, given that the mutant dies so early, it is still unknown how lack of Numb might influence asymmetric cell divisions during the later neurogenic period.
At E13-14, which is the peak neurogenic period in vivo, during asymmetric P/N divisions, Numb moves preferentially into the neuronal daughter. Recent studies have demonstrated that radial glia are major progenitors for neurons during this period and that they divide asymmetrically to produce another radial glia and a neuron (Miyata et al., 2001; Noctor et al., 2001
; Noctor et al., 2002
). Radial glia express Nestin and RC2 (Lendahl et al., 1990
; Misson et al., 1988
), and we found that in P/N pairs at E13-E14, the progenitor is Nestin+ and RC2+ (Fig. 4, data not shown). Hence, these cell divisions might correspond to those of radial glia. Notch is expressed in radial glia and overexpression of Notch in the embryonic cerebral cortex promotes the radial glial fate and subsequently astrocyte formation (Gaiano et al., 2000
; Tanigaki et al., 2001
). In Drosophila, Numb acts by inhibiting Notch activity (Frise et al., 1996
; Guo et al., 1996
; Spana and Doe, 1996
; Campos-Ortega, 1996
; Van de Bor and Glangrande, 2001
). For example, when Drosophila CNS neuroblasts divide, Numb segregates into the GMC and inhibits Notch to stimulate neuronal differentiation. In vertebrates, Numb also appears to inhibit Notch function (Verdi et al., 1996
; Berezovska et al., 1999
; Sestan et al., 1999
; Wakamatsu et al., 1999
; Redmond et al., 2000
). Thus, during cortical neurogenesis, Numb segregation into one daughter of a radial glial progenitor could inhibit Notch, allowing the cell to differentiate down the neuronal pathway (Fig. 8).
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A similar phenomenon might occur in vertebrates. Progenitor cells isolated from different stages are diverse, and their responses to Numb acquisition might vary. At early stages differential Numb movement could create differences between sister progenitor cells, with the direction of Numb movement (into the neuroblast or not) being related to the specific types of progenitors being formed. As more markers are discovered for sub-populations of neural progenitor cells, we might correlate the direction of Numb movement with the formation of different progenitor cell types. At later stages during active neurogenesis Numb moves more consistently into the cell that undergoes neuronal differentiation (Fig. 8). This could explain the apparently contradictory findings from overexpression and knockout studies that Numb has a role in both progenitor and neuronal populations.
Previously we observed that most (80%) terminal E14 cortical neuroblasts cultured for 14 days produce two neurons that are essentially identical, with many being mirror images, while around 20% produce two morphologically different neurons (Qian et al., 1998). In the present study conducted on pairs grown for 1 or 4 days, we found that approximately 80% of newborn neuron pairs had symmetric Numb and approximately 20% asymmetric, an intriguingly similar ratio that spurred us to investigate the relationship between Numb distribution and morphology. We found Numb distribution was indeed highly associated with the similar or dissimilar morphology of neuronal pairs. This was found as early as 1 day after plating, and also by 4 days after plating when more complex phenotypes had developed. It is unlikely that most of the morphological differences between sister cells at 4 days simply reflect differences in maturation: they often included multiple features such as soma shape, process length and direction, making it difficult to envision how a similar morphology might eventually be attained. Rather, it seems likely that many morphologically different pairs consist of two different cortical neuron types, which have distinct morphologies in culture (Kriegstein and Dichter, 1983
). Thus differential Numb segregation may increase cell diversity at the final stages of neuron production.
We do not know whether the asymmetric distribution of Numb at the terminal mitosis is maintained during subsequent neuron differentiation, however the fact that a similar percentage of pairs had asymmetric Numb at 24 hours and at 4 days suggests this might be the case. In the future, live visualization of fluorescently tagged Numb, as accomplished recently in Drosophila (Lu et al., 1999; Roegiers et al., 2001
), should show directly whether segregation of Numb at the terminal division of neuroblasts is related to subsequent long-term development of cell morphology and type.
Recent studies have demonstrated that over-expression of Notch inhibits axon and dendrite growth and that antagonizing Notch activity by Numb over-expression in cortical neurons promotes neurite growth (Sestan et al., 1999; Berezovska et al., 1999
; Redmond et al., 2000
). Our results further indicate that endogenous differences in Numb level can exert a profound effect on neurite development and overall cell morphology. If the action of Numb on cell morphology is mediated through Notch signaling, it is interesting that this can occur at the extremely low cell densities used in this study, in which cell-cell contact is minimal and largely limited to sister cells. How Notch activation might be translated into cell morphology is not yet clear. Sanpodo, a component of the Numb-Notch pathway in Drosophila, encodes an actin-associated protein that might regulate the cytoskeletal network and hence alter cell shape (Dye et al., 1998
; Skeath and Doe, 1998
).
In conclusion, this study indicates that Numb plays a critical role in asymmetric cell divisions in CNS cortical lineages, suggesting evolutionary conservation of essential mechanisms underlying asymmetric cell divisions from flies to mammals. However, it also highlights differences in the vertebrate, including the complexity of progenitor cell types, different Numb isoforms, the possibility of other asymmetric determinants and multiple downstream pathways for Numb signaling, that remain to be explored.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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