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. 2017 Jan 26;6:e20982. doi: 10.7554/eLife.20982

Figure 6. YAP/TAZ are required for myelin maintenance.

(A) Living eight week-old WT and Yap/Taz iDKO (Sox10-Cre-ERT2) mice 20 days post-first tamoxifen injection. Arrows indicate abnormal splayed gait. (B) Cartoon showing timeline of tamoxifen injection and time of sacrifice/ death of iDKO mice due to severity of symptoms. Purple dots: Sox10-creERT2; Yapfl/fl; Tazfl/fl; Orange dots: Plp1-creERT2; Yapfl/fl; Tazfl/fl iDKO mice. (C) Representative images of CMAPs generated in WT and iDKO mice. Right panel: Nerve conduction velocity, n = 3 mice per genotype. *p=0.0186, unpaired Student’s t-test. (D) Longitudinal cryosections of sciatic nerves of 11 week-old WT and iDKO (Sox10-Cre-ERT2) mice, 20 days after first tamoxifen injection, showing loss of YAP/TAZ (green) in iDKO but not WT SC nuclei, marked by Sox10 (red). All cell nuclei are marked by DAPI staining (blue). Asterisks mark lack of deletion of YAP/TAZ in non-SCs. n = 2 mice per genotype; two sections per mouse. (E) Transverse sciatic nerve (E1-3) and longitudinal ventral root (E4, E5) sections from 11 week old WT, iDKO (Sox10-Cre-ERT2; E2–E4) and iDKO (Plp1-Cre-ERT2; E5) mice, 20 days after first tamoxifen injection. (E1–E3) TEM of WT (E1) and iDKO (E2, E3) sciatic nerves. Axons with abnormal myelin profiles are marked with a yellow ‘a’; completely demyelinated axons are marked with a red ‘a’; myelin-laden macrophages are marked with a red ‘m’. n = 3 mice of each genotype. (E4–E5) Semi-thin ventral root sections, showing loss of myelin and loosened myelin sheaths in iDKO (Sox10-Cre-ERT2) and iDKO (Plp1-Cre-ERT2) mice. Demyelinated axons are marked by ‘a’ and myelin-filled macrophages are marked by ‘m’. Note the demyelinated internodes (marked by sets of ‘a’) contiguous with normally myelinated internodes. (F) Bar graph showing percentage of SCs immunopositive for YAP/TAZ 20 days after first tamoxifen injection, in WT and iDKO (Sox10-Cre-ERT2) sciatic nerve. (G) Quantification of demyelinating SC profiles 20 days after first tamoxifen injection, in transverse sections of WT and iDKO (Sox10-Cre-ERT2) sciatic nerve. n = 3 mice per genotype, ****p<0.0001, unpaired Student’s t-test. The following figure supplements are available for Figure 6.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.20982.015

Figure 6.

Figure 6—figure supplement 1. YAP and TAZ are not expressed in mature oligodendrocytes.

Figure 6—figure supplement 1.

(A) Cartoon denoting a spinal cord white matter area of P60 WT mouse from which quadruple immunostaining images of B–B’’’’ were taken. (B’–B””) Cells strongly immunopositive for YAP/TAZ are present (B, arrows), but YAP/TAZ are absent from oligodendrocytes identified by Sox10 (B’, green) and CC1 (B’’, white). All nuclei are marked by DAPI (blue).
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.20982.016