Journal
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Volume 382, Issue 2, Pages 496-503Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.07.012
Keywords
Planar cell polarity; Dishevelled; Xenopus; Convergent extension; Localisation; Image analysis; QuimP
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Funding
- BBSRC [BB/D010640/1]
- Wellcome Trust Project Grant [WT094131MA]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/D010640/1, BB/E01335X/1, BB/I008209/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0601131] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/D010640/1, BB/I008209/1, BB/E01335X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [G0601131] Funding Source: UKRI
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Convergent extension (CE) is a conserved morphogenetic movement that drives axial lengthening of the primary body axis and depends on the planar cell polarity (PCP) pathway. In Drosophila epithelia, a polarised subcellular accumulation of PCP core components, such as Dishevelled (Dvl) protein, is associated with PCP function. Dvi has long been thought to accumulate in the mediolateral protrusions in Xenopus chordamesoderm cells undergoing CE. Here we present a quantitative analysis of Dvl intracellular localisation in Xenopus chordamesoderm cells. We find that, surprisingly, accumulations previously observed at mediolateral protrusions of chordamesodermal cells are not protrusion-specific but reflect yolk-free cytoplasm and are quantitatively matched by the distribution of the cytoplasmfilling lineage marker dextran. However, separating cell cortex-associated from bulk Dvl signal reveals a statistical enrichment of Dvl in notochord-somite boundary-(NSB)-directed protrusions, which is dependent upon NSB proximity. Dvl puncta were also observed, but only upon elevated overexpression. These puncta showed no statistically significant spatial bias, in contrast to the strongly posteriorlyenriched GFP-Dvl puncta previously reported in zebrafish. We propose that Dvl distribution is more subtle and dynamic than previously appreciated and that in vertebrate mesoderm it reflects processes other than protrusion as such. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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