Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of progenitors of the oligodendrocyte lineage reveals transcriptional convergence during development
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Abstract
Summary Pdgfra+ oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) arise in distinct specification waves during embryogenesis in the central nervous system (CNS). It is unclear whether there is a correlation between these waves and different transcriptional oligodendrocyte (OL) states at adult stages. Here we present a bulk and single-cell transcriptomics resource providing insights on how transitions between these states occur. We show that E13.5 Pdgfra+ populations are not OPCs, exhibiting instead hallmarks of neural progenitors. A subset of these progenitors, which we refer as pre-OPCs, rewires their transcriptional landscape, converging into indistinguishable OPC states at E17.5 and post-natal stages. P7 brain and spinal cord OPCs present similar transcriptional profiles at the single-cell level, indicating that OPC states are not region-specific. Postnatal OPC progeny of E13.5 Pdgfra+ have electrophysiological and transcriptional profiles similar to OPCs derived from subsequent specification waves. In addition, lineage tracing indicates that a subset of E13.5 Pdgfra+ cells also originate cells of the pericyte lineage. In summary, our results indicate that embryonic Pdgfra+ cells are diverse and give rise at post-natal stages to distinct cell lineages, including OPCs with convergent transcriptional profiles in different CNS regions.
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