期刊
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORAL SCIENCES
卷 124, 期 3, 页码 221-227出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/eos.12261
关键词
cell-cell attachment; E-cadherin; enamel; migration; beta-catenin
资金
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research of the National Institutes of Health [R01DE016276, R01DE024570, R56 DE023100]
- National Institutes of Health [1S10RR027553-01]
Beta-catenin is a multifunctional protein that plays key roles in cadherin-based cell adherens junctions and in the Wnt signaling pathway. The canonical Wnt/beta-catenin pathway can regulate transcription factors that control cell movement/invasion. We investigated whether beta-catenin regulates ameloblast movement through canonical Wnt signaling. The morphological and physical properties of enamel were assessed in enamel from control and beta-catenin conditional knockout (cKO) mice. Ameloblast-lineage cells (ALC) were used to investigate the potential roles of beta-catenin in cell migration and in E-cadherin expression. Compared with controls, incisors from beta-catenin cKO mice were short, blunt, and where enamel was present, it was soft and malformed. Scanning electron microscopy revealed a dysplastic rod pattern within the enamel of incisors from beta-catenin cKO mice, and Vickers microhardness measurements confirmed that mice with beta-catenin ablated from their enamel organ had enamel that was significantly softer than normal. Amelogenesis was disrupted in the absence of beta-catenin and the ameloblasts did not differentiate properly. We further demonstrated that migration of ALCs was inhibited in vitro and that E-cadherin expression was significantly up-regulated when ALCs were treated with the beta-catenin inhibitor, ICG-001. Beta-catenin ablation causes enamel malformation in mice and this phenotype may occur, in part, by a lack of ameloblast differentiation and/or movement necessary to form the decussating enamel rod structure.
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