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Annual Review of Vision Science

Volume 1, 2015

The Determination of Rod and Cone Photoreceptor Fate

Abstract

Photoreceptors have been the most intensively studied retinal cell type. Early lineage studies showed that photoreceptors are produced by retinal progenitor cells (RPCs) that produce only photoreceptor cells and by RPCs that produce both photoreceptor cells and other retinal cell types. More recent lineage studies have shown that there are intrinsic, molecular differences among these RPCs and that these molecular differences operate in gene regulatory networks (GRNs) that lead to the choice of the rod versus the cone fate. In addition, there are GRNs that lead to the choice of a photoreceptor fate and that of another retinal cell type. An example of such a GRN is one that drives the binary fate choice between a rod photoreceptor and bipolar cell. This GRN has many elements, including both feedforward and feedback regulatory loops, highlighting the complexity of such networks. This and other examples of retinal cell fate determination are reviewed here, focusing on the events that direct the choice of rod and cone photoreceptor fate.

Keyword(s): enhancer, gene regulatory network, lineage, progenitor cell, retinal development, transcription factor
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The Determination of Rod and Cone Photoreceptor Fate
Annual Review of Vision Science 1, 211 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-vision-090814-121657
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