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DEVELOPMENT
卷 140, 期 20, 页码 4193-4202出版社
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.097048
关键词
Eye field; Neural plate; Morphogenesis; Zebrafish
资金
- Medical Research Council (MRC)-LMCB PhD Program
- MRC
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and Welcome Trust
- European Community [PCIG11-GA2012-321788]
- Spanish Government [BFU2011-24701]
- Spanish Research Council [CSIC] [RYC-2010-05656]
- MRC [G0900994, G0501487] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0501487, G0900994] Funding Source: researchfish
During forebrain morphogenesis, there is extensive reorganisation of the cells destined to form the eyes, telencephalon and diencephalon. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms that regulate region-specific behaviours and that maintain the coherence of cell populations undergoing specific morphogenetic processes. In this study, we show that the activity of the Eph/ Ephrin signalling pathway maintains segregation between the prospective eyes and adjacent regions of the anterior neural plate during the early stages of forebrain morphogenesis in zebrafish. Several Ephrins and Ephs are expressed in complementary domains in the prospective forebrain and combinatorial abrogation of their activity results in incomplete segregation of the eyes and telencephalon and in defective evagination of the optic vesicles. Conversely, expression of exogenous Ephs or Ephrins in regions of the prospective forebrain where they are not usually expressed changes the adhesion properties of the cells, resulting in segregation to the wrong domain without changing their regional fate. The failure of eye morphogenesis in rx3 mutants is accompanied by a loss of complementary expression of Ephs and Ephrins, suggesting that this pathway is activated downstream of the regional fate specification machinery to establish boundaries between domains undergoing different programmes of morphogenesis.
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