PUBLICATION
Inca: a novel p21-activated kinase-associated protein required for cranial neural crest development
- Authors
- Luo, T., Xu, Y., Hoffman, T.L., Zhang, T., Schilling, T., and Sargent, T.D.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-070303-29
- Date
- 2007
- Source
- Development (Cambridge, England) 134(7): 1279-1289 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Luo, Ting, Sargent, Tom, Schilling, Tom
- Keywords
- Cartilage, PAK, Cortical actin, Cytoskeleton, Wound healing, Craniofacial, Tfap2a, Ectomesenchyme, Neural crest, Xenopus, Zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Actins/metabolism
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Anura/embryology
- Blotting, Western
- Cell Adhesion/physiology
- Cell Movement/physiology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
- Immunoprecipitation
- In Situ Hybridization
- In Situ Nick-End Labeling
- Mice
- Microarray Analysis
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics*
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/metabolism
- Neural Crest/embryology*
- Oligonucleotides
- Skull/embryology*
- Transcription Factor AP-2/metabolism
- Xenopus/embryology*
- Xenopus/metabolism
- Xenopus Proteins/genetics*
- Xenopus Proteins/metabolism
- Yeasts
- Zebrafish/embryology
- p21-Activated Kinases/metabolism
- PubMed
- 17314132 Full text @ Development
Citation
Luo, T., Xu, Y., Hoffman, T.L., Zhang, T., Schilling, T., and Sargent, T.D. (2007) Inca: a novel p21-activated kinase-associated protein required for cranial neural crest development. Development (Cambridge, England). 134(7):1279-1289.
Abstract
Inca (induced in neural crest by AP2) is a novel protein discovered in a microarray screen for genes that are upregulated in Xenopus embryos by the transcriptional activator protein Tfap2a. It has no significant similarity to any known protein, but is conserved among vertebrates. In Xenopus, zebrafish and mouse embryos, Inca is expressed predominantly in the premigratory and migrating neural crest (NC). Knockdown experiments in frog and fish using antisense morpholinos reveal essential functions for Inca in a subset of NC cells that form craniofacial cartilage. Cells lacking Inca migrate successfully but fail to condense into skeletal primordia. Overexpression of Inca disrupts cortical actin and prevents formation of actin 'purse strings', which are required for wound healing in Xenopus embryos. We show that Inca physically interacts with p21-activated kinase 5 (PAK5), a known regulator of the actin cytoskeleton that is co-expressed with Inca in embryonic ectoderm, including in the NC. These results suggest that Inca and PAK5 cooperate in restructuring cytoskeletal organization and in the regulation of cell adhesion in the early embryo and in NC cells during craniofacial development.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping