The human gene FOXM1 promotes cortical folding and improves learning and memory ability in mice [P0]

Purpose: To gain further insight into how FOXM1 causes generation of cortical expansion and folding in mice, single cell RNA-seq was used to analyze the cell type changes resulting from the cerebral cortices of P0 FOXM1 conditional knock in mice and littermate wild-type. Methods: Single cell isolation was prepared from P0 telencephalic tissue of wild-type (WT) and FOXM1f/+;Nestin-Cre mice. The fragmented cDNAs containing barcode and UMI sequences was built the library. Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer was used to quality controlled and quantified. Single cell RNA-sequencing analysis was used by the Illumina HiSeq 2500 platform in Annoroad Genomics. Results: Clustering and labeling of these cells visualized on a t-SNE plot between the wild-type (WT) and FOXM1f/+;Nestin-Cre mice brain cortex. Conclusions: Single cell RNA-seq data would provide an overall understanding how FOXM1 gene contribute to generation of cortical expansion and folding in mice. Single cell isolation of P0 wild type (WT) and FOXM1f/+;Nestin-Cre mice were generated by deep sequencing, in triplicate, using Illumina HiSeq 2500.