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Volume 17, Number 6, Issue of March 15, 1997 pp. 2088-2100
Copyright ©1997 Society for NeuroscienceSynchrony of Clonal Cell Proliferation and Contiguity of Clonally Related Cells: Production of Mosaicism in the Ventricular Zone of Developing Mouse Neocortex
Received Aug. 5, 1996; revised Dec. 17, 1996; accepted Dec. 20, 1996.
Li Cai1, 2, Nancy L. Hayes1, and Richard S. Nowakowski1, 2 1 Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, and 2 Physiology and Neurobiology Graduate Program, Rutgers University and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
We have analyzed clonal cell proliferation in the ventricular zone (VZ) of the early developing mouse neocortex with a replication-incompetent retrovirus encoding human placental alkaline phosphatase (AP). The retrovirus was injected into the lateral ventricles on embryonic day 11 (E11), i.e., at the onset of neuronogenesis. Three days postinjection, on E14, a total of 259 AP-labeled clones of various sizes were found in 7 fetal brains. There are approximately 7 cell cycles between E11 and E14 (), and there is a 1-2 cell cycle delay between retroviral injection and the production of a retrovirally labeled "founder" cell; thus, we estimate that the "age" of the clones was about 5-6 cell cycles. Almost one-half of the clones (48.3%) identified were pure proliferating clones containing cells only in the VZ. Another 18.5% contained both proliferating and postproliferative cells, and 33.2% contained only postproliferative cells. It was striking that over 90% of the clonally related proliferating cells occurred in clusters of two or more apparently contiguous cells, and about 73% of the proliferating cells occurred in clusters of three or more cells. Regardless of the number of cells in the clone, these clusters were tightly packed and confined to a single level of the VZ. This clustering of proliferating cells indicates that clonally related cells maintain neighbor-neighbor relationships as they undergo interkinetic nuclear migration and progress through several cell cycles, and, as a result, the ventricular zone is a mosaic of small clusters of clonally related and synchronously cycling cells. In addition, cells in the intermediate zone and the cortical plate were also frequently clustered, indicating that they became postproliferative at a similar time and that the output of the VZ is influenced by its mosaic structure.
Key words: neuronogenesis; cell cycle; pseudostratified ventricular epithelium; interkinetic nuclear migration; retrovirus vector; clonal lineage
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