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DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS
卷 222, 期 3, 页码 494-505出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.1196
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ATP; chick embryo; P2Y receptors; limb development; chondrogenesis
We have investigated the function of the G protein-coupled receptor for extracellular ATP, chick P2Y(1) (cP2Y(1)) during development of the chick limb. cP2Y(1) is strongly expressed in undifferentiated limb mesenchyme cells but appears to be lost from cells as they differentiate, raising the possibility that the function of this receptor may be to inhibit cell differentiation. This pattern of expression was particularly striking surrounding areas of cartilage formation. We tested whether cP2Y(1) was able to regulate cartilage formation by using an in-vitro micromass model of chondrogenesis. Because limb cells in micromass culture lose expression of cP2Y(1), we have used a gain-of-function approach to demonstrate that cP2Y(1) expression can inhibit cartilage differentiation. We also demonstrate that early limb mesenchyme cells release ATP into the extracellular medium and have mechanisms to breakdown extracellular ATP. These results suggest that extracellular ATP, signaling through cP2Y(1), can modulate the differentiation of limb mesenchyme cells in vitro, and the expression pattern of cP2Y(1) suggests that this type of signaling could play a similar role in ovo. (C) 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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