Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 13, No. 6, 560-571,
June 2003
© 2003 Oxford University Press
Increase in Reelin-positive Cells in the Marginal Zone of Pax6 Mutant Mouse Cortex
Max-Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany, , 1 Department of Anatomy, Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan and , 2 Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Am Klopferspitz 18A, D-82152 Planegg-Martinsried-Munich, Germany
Address correspondence to A. Stoykova, Max-Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany. Email: astoyko{at}gwdg.de. M. Götz, Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Am Klopferspitz 18A, D-82152 Planegg-Martinsried-Munich, Germany. Email: mgoetz{at}neuro.mpg.de.
The extracellular matrix molecule reelin is a crucial molecule in CNS development, in particular in the cerebellum and cerebral cortex. In the cerebral cortex, reelin is provided by a small number of neurons located in the marginal zone (MZ). These neurons belong to the earliest neurons generated, but little is known about the molecular mechanisms of their specification. Here we describe that reelin-positive cells are strongly increased in the developing cortex of the Pax6 mutant mice Small eye. Shortly after the onset of reelin expression, the number of reelin- and calretinin-positive cells is doubled in the cortex of Pax6 mutants and this increase is further enhanced during development. In contrast, calbindin-positive cells in the MZ do not co-express reelin and are not altered in the Pax6 mutant cortex. The split of the preplate cells was also defective in the Pax6 mutant cortex, suggesting that the amount of reelin is crucial for positioning of the cortical plate between the MZ and subplate. We further show that Pax6 mutant cortical cells isolated in vitro do not develop an increase in reelin-positive cells, while cells isolated from the entire telencephalon do. Consistent with non-cell-autonomous mechanisms contributing to the increase in reelin-positive cells in the Pax6-deficient cortex, tangential migration of diverse cell types from the ventral telencephalon into the cortex is enhanced in the Pax6 mutant mice. Taken together, these experiments further elucidate how patterning of the forebrain by the transcription factor Pax6 regulates the specification of distinct neuronal subtypes in the cortical MZ.
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