Journal
DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS
Volume 236, Issue 1, Pages 44-59Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20943
Keywords
NCAM; PSA-NCAM; BMP-4; GDNF; ENS development; ENS patterning
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES [R01DK058056] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [R01NS015547] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK 58056] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS15547] Funding Source: Medline
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The neural crest-derived cells that colonize the fetal bowel become patterned into two ganglionated plexuses. The hypothesis that bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) promote ganglionation by regulating neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) polysialylation was tested. Transcripts encoding the sialyltransferases, ST8Sia IV (PST) and ST8Sia 11 (STX), which polysialylate NCAM, were detectable in fetal rat gut by E12 but were downregulated postnatally. PSA-NCAM-immunoreactive neuron numbers, but not those of NCAM, were developmentally regulated similarly. Circular smooth muscle was transiently (E16-20) PSA-NCAM-immunoreactive when it is traversed by migrating precursors of submucosal neurons. Neurons developing in vitro from crest-derived cells immunoselected at E12 with antibodies to p75(NTR) expressed NCAM and PSA-NCAM. BMP-4 promoted neuronal NCAM polysialylation and clustering. N-butanoylmannosamine, which blocks NCAM polysialylation, but not N-propanoylmannosamine, which does not, interfered with BMP-4-induced neuronal clustering. Observations suggest that BMP signaling enhances NCAM polysialylation, which allows precursors to migrate and form ganglionic aggregates during the remodeling of the developing ENS.
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