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Roles of ADAM13-regulated Wnt activity in early Xenopus eye development

Journal

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Volume 363, Issue 1, Pages 147-154

Publisher

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.12.031

Keywords

ADAM13; Xenopus; Eye; Wnt; Ephrin; Snail2; Cerberus

Funding

  1. NIH [DE14365, HD26402/GM094793]
  2. March of Dimes Foundation [F405-140, 1-FY10-399]
  3. American Heart Association
  4. Ruth L. Kirschstein postdoctoral fellowship

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Pericellular proteolysis by ADAM family metalloproteinases has been widely implicated in cell signaling and development. We recently found that Xenopus ADAM13, an ADAM metalloproteinase, is required for activation of canonical Wnt signaling during cranial neural crest (CNC) induction by regulating a novel crosstalk between Wnt and ephrin B (EfnB) signaling pathways (Wei et al., 2010b). In the present study we show that the metalloproteinase activity of ADAM13 also plays important roles in eye development in Xenopus tropicalis. Knockdown of ADAM13 results in reduced expression of eye field markers pax6 and rx1, as well as that of the pan-neural marker sox2. Activation of canonical Wnt signaling or inhibition of forward EfnB signaling rescues the eye defects caused by loss of ADAM13, suggesting that ADAM13 functions through regulation of the EfnB-Wnt pathway interaction. Downstream of Wnt, the head inducer Cerberus was identified as an effector that mediates ADAM13 function in early eye field formation. Furthermore, ectopic expression of the Wnt target gene snail2 restores cerberus expression and rescues the eye defects caused by ADAM13 knockdown. Together these data suggest an important role of ADAM13-regulated Wnt activity in eye development in Xenopus. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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