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DEVELOPMENT
Volume 131, Issue 21, Pages 5327-5339Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01424
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avian embryo; cell cycle; cyclin D1; epithelia to mesenchymal transition; neural tube; somite
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Delamination of premigratory neural crest cells depends on a balance between BMP/noggin and on successful G1/S transition. Here, we report that BMP regulates G1/S transition and consequent crest dellamination through canonical Wnt signaling. Noggin overexpression inhibits G1/S transition and blocking G1/S abrogates BMP-induced delamination; moreover, transcription of Wnt1 is stimulated by BMP and by the developing somites, which concomitantly inhibit noggin production. Interfering with P-catenin and LEF/TCF inhibits GI/S transition, neural crest delamination and transcription of various BMP- dependent genes, which include Cad6B, Pax3 and Msx1, but not that of Slug, Sox9 or FoxD3. Hence, we propose that developing somites inhibit noggin transcription in the dorsal tube, resulting in activation of BMP and consequent Wntl production. Canonical Wnt signaling in turn stimulates G1/S transition and generation of neural crest cell motility independently of its proposed role in earlier neural crest specification.
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