Journal
DEVELOPMENT
Volume 130, Issue 16, Pages 3767-3780Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00603
Keywords
zebrafish; neurulation; mitoses; orientation; spindle rotation; neuroepithelial polarity; ASIP; Histone2A.F/Z : GFP; tau : GFP
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In the neural plate and neural tube in the trunk region of the zebrafish embryo, dividing cells are oriented parallel to the plane of the neuroepithelium, while in neural keel/rod, cells divide perpendicular to it. This change in the orientation of mitosis is brought about by a 90degrees rotation of the mitotic spindle. As the two halves of the neural primordium in keel/rod stage are in apposition, the perpendicular orientation of mitoses in this stage determines that daughter cells become allocated to both sides of the neural tube. To assess the role played by cell junctions in controlling the orientation of dividing cells, we studied the expression of components of adherens and tight junctions in the neuroepithelial cells. We find that these proteins are distributed irregularly at the neural plate stage and become polarised apically in the cell membrane only during the keel/rod stage. The stereotypic orientation of mitoses is perturbed only weakly upon loss of function of the cell junction components ASIP and aPKClambda, suggesting that mitotic orientation depends in part on the integrity of cell junctions and the polarity of the epithelium as a whole. However, the 90degrees rotation of the spindle does not require perfectly polarised cell junctions between the neuroepithelial cells.
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