10.3389/fncel.2019.00023.s004 Hilal Celikkaya Hilal Celikkaya Mehmet Ilyas Cosacak Mehmet Ilyas Cosacak Christos Papadimitriou Christos Papadimitriou Stanislava Popova Stanislava Popova Prabesh Bhattarai Prabesh Bhattarai Srijeeta Nag Biswas Srijeeta Nag Biswas Tohid Siddiqui Tohid Siddiqui Sabrina Wistorf Sabrina Wistorf Isabel Nevado-Alcalde Isabel Nevado-Alcalde Lisa Naumann Lisa Naumann Violeta Mashkaryan Violeta Mashkaryan Kerstin Brandt Kerstin Brandt Uwe Freudenberg Uwe Freudenberg Carsten Werner Carsten Werner Caghan Kizil Caghan Kizil Data_Sheet_4_GATA3 Promotes the Neural Progenitor State but Not Neurogenesis in 3D Traumatic Injury Model of Primary Human Cortical Astrocytes.ZIP Frontiers 2019 GATA3 neurogenic potential neural progenitors scratch injury primary human astrocytes SOX2 2019-02-11 15:30:15 Dataset https://frontiersin.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_Sheet_4_GATA3_Promotes_the_Neural_Progenitor_State_but_Not_Neurogenesis_in_3D_Traumatic_Injury_Model_of_Primary_Human_Cortical_Astrocytes_ZIP/7701362 <p>Astrocytes are abundant cell types in the vertebrate central nervous system and can act as neural stem cells in specialized niches where they constitutively generate new neurons. Outside the stem cell niches, however, these glial cells are not neurogenic. Although injuries in the mammalian central nervous system lead to profound proliferation of astrocytes, which cluster at the lesion site to form a gliotic scar, neurogenesis does not take place. Therefore, a plausible regenerative therapeutic option is to coax the endogenous reactive astrocytes to a pre-neurogenic progenitor state and use them as an endogenous reservoir for repair. However, little is known on the mechanisms that promote the neural progenitor state after injuries in humans. Gata3 was previously found to be a mechanism that zebrafish brain uses to injury-dependent induction of neural progenitors. However, the effects of GATA3 in human astrocytes after injury are not known. Therefore, in this report, we investigated how overexpression of GATA3 in primary human astrocytes would affect the neurogenic potential before and after injury in 2D and 3D cultures. We found that primary human astrocytes are unable to induce GATA3 after injury. Lentivirus-mediated overexpression of GATA3 significantly increased the number of GFAP/SOX2 double positive astrocytes and expression of pro-neural factor ASCL1, but failed to induce neurogenesis, suggesting that GATA3 is required for enhancing the neurogenic potential of primary human astrocytes and is not sufficient to induce neurogenesis alone.</p><p>HIGHLIGHTS-</p><p>Primary human astrocytes do not induce GATA3 after injury.</p>-<p>GATA3 promotes neural progenitor state but not neurogenesis.</p>-<p>GATA3 increases the GFAP/SOX2-positive cells and ASCL1 after injury in 3D.</p>-<p>GATA3 reduces lesion-induced scar-like collagen deposition.</p><p></p>