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Antagonistic Effects of Grg6 and Groucho/TLE on the Transcription Repression Activity of Brain Factor 1/FoxG1 and Cortical Neuron Differentiation

Center for Neuronal Survival, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec,¹ Cancer Endocrinology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,³ Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee²

Received 9 August 2005/ Accepted 4 October 2005

Groucho (Gro)/TLE transcriptional corepressors are involved in a variety of developmental mechanisms, including neuronal differentiation. They contain a conserved C-terminal WD40 repeat domain that mediates interactions with several DNA-binding proteins. In particular, Gro/TLE1 interacts with forkhead transcription factor brain factor 1 (BF-1; also termed FoxG1). BF-1 is an essential regulator of neuronal differentiation during cerebral cortex development and represses transcription together with Gro/TLE1. Gro/TLE-related gene product 6 (Grg6) shares with Gro/TLEs a conserved WD40 repeat domain but is more distantly related at its N-terminal half. We demonstrate that Grg6 is expressed in cortical neural progenitor cells and interacts with BF-1. In contrast to Gro/TLE1, however, Grg6 does not promote, but rather suppresses, BF-1-mediated transcriptional repression. Consistent with these observations, Grg6 interferes with the binding of Gro/TLE1 to BF-1 and does not repress transcription when targeted to DNA. Moreover, coexpression of Grg6 and BF-1 in cortical progenitor cells leads to a decrease in the number of proliferating cells and increased neuronal differentiation. Conversely, Grg6 knockdown by RNA interference causes decreased neurogenesis. These results identify a new role for Grg6 in cortical neuron development and establish a functional link between Grg6 and BF-1.

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