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EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH
Volume 312, Issue 9, Pages 1626-1636Publisher
ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2006.01.032
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Wnt; frizzled; dopamine; neuron; midbrain; development; precursor
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Wnt1 and -5a have been shown to modulate the proliferation and differentiation of midbrain dopaminergic (DA) neurons. However, it is not known whether other Writs or which Frizzled (Fz) receptors are expressed in the developing midbrain. We found that 13 out of 19 Writs, all 10 Fzs, and several intracellular Writ signaling modulators, including Axin, FRAT, Naked, Par-1, and Ltap are developmentally regulated between embryonic days (E) 10.5 and 15.5. Next, we studied whether Fzs are differentially expressed in different cell types and examined neuronal-progenitor- or glial-enriched cultures and DA neurons isolated from TH-GFP reporter mice. We found that Fz8 is expressed at high levels in DA neurons at E11.5 and E13.5. Fz6 and -7 are the predominant transcripts in glial precursors, and Fz9, which is absent in DA neurons at E11.5, is the main receptor expressed in neuronal precursors. We therefore examined the function of Fz9 in DA cells and found that overexpression of Fz9 reduced Wnt5a- but not Wnt3a-induced hyperphosphorylation of Dishevelled. Thus, our results show that Fzs are developmentally regulated and differentially expressed in VM precursors, DA neurons, and glia. These findings suggest that Fz expression contributes to provide specificity to Wnt-mediated effects. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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