Tang Hai-Liang, Zhu Jian-Hong
Department of Neurosurgery, Fudan University, Huashan Hospital; National Key Laboratory for Medical Neurobiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Neurosci Bull. 2007 Jul;23(4):241-8. doi: 10.1007/s12264-007-0036-8.
Neural stem cell is presently the research hotspot in neuroscience. Recent progress indicates that epigenetic modulation is closely related to the self-renewal and differentiation of neural stem cell. Epigenetics refer to the study of mitotical/meiotical heritage changes in gene function that cannot be explained by changes in the DNA sequence. Major epigenetic mechanisms include DNA methylation, histone modification, chromatin remodeling, genomic imprinting, and non-coding RNA. In this review, we focus on the new insights into the epigenetic mechanism for neural stem cells fate.
神经干细胞是目前神经科学研究的热点。最近的进展表明,表观遗传调控与神经干细胞的自我更新和分化密切相关。表观遗传学是指对基因功能的有丝分裂/减数分裂遗传变化的研究,这些变化不能用DNA序列的变化来解释。主要的表观遗传机制包括DNA甲基化、组蛋白修饰、染色质重塑、基因组印记和非编码RNA。在这篇综述中,我们重点关注神经干细胞命运表观遗传机制的新见解。