PUBLICATION
Mesendodermal signals required for otic induction: Bmp-antagonists cooperate with Fgf and can facilitate formation of ectopic otic tissue
- Authors
- Kwon, H.J., and Riley, B.B.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-101029-1
- Date
- 2009
- Source
- Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists 238(6): 1582-1594 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Kwon, Hye-Joo, Riley, Bruce
- Keywords
- otic placode, paraxial cephalic mesendoderm, Nodal, Fgf, Bmp-antagonist, mesoderm induction, lineage-tracing, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Benzamides/metabolism
- Body Patterning/physiology
- Bone Morphogenetic Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors*
- Bone Morphogenetic Proteins/metabolism
- Choristoma*
- Dioxoles/metabolism
- Ear, Inner*/anatomy & histology
- Ear, Inner*/embryology
- Embryonic Induction
- Endoderm/anatomy & histology
- Endoderm/physiology*
- Fibroblast Growth Factors/genetics
- Fibroblast Growth Factors/metabolism*
- Follistatin/genetics
- Follistatin/metabolism
- GTPase-Activating Proteins/genetics
- GTPase-Activating Proteins/metabolism
- Glycoproteins/genetics
- Glycoproteins/metabolism
- Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/genetics
- Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/metabolism
- Mesoderm/anatomy & histology
- Mesoderm/physiology*
- Nodal Protein/genetics
- Nodal Protein/metabolism
- Rhombencephalon/anatomy & histology
- Rhombencephalon/embryology
- Signal Transduction/physiology*
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 19418450 Full text @ Dev. Dyn.
Citation
Kwon, H.J., and Riley, B.B. (2009) Mesendodermal signals required for otic induction: Bmp-antagonists cooperate with Fgf and can facilitate formation of ectopic otic tissue. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 238(6):1582-1594.
Abstract
Induction of otic placodes requires Fgf from surrounding tissues. We tested the hypothesis that mesendodermally derived Bmp-antagonists Chordin, Follistatin-a, and Crossveinless-2 cooperate in this process. Injecting morpholinos for all three genes, or treatment with the Nodal inhibitor SB431542 to block mesoderm-formation, reduces otic induction and strongly enhances the effects of disrupting fgf3 or fgf8. In contrast, using a lower dose of SB431542, combined with partial loss of Fgf, causes a dramatic medial expansion of otic tissue and formation of a single, large otic vesicle spanning the width of the hindbrain. Under these conditions, paraxial cephalic mesoderm forms ectopically at the midline, migrates into the head, and later transfates to form otic tissue beneath the hindbrain. Blocking expression of Bmp-antagonists blocks formation of medial otic tissue. These data show the importance of mesendodermal Bmp-antagonists for otic induction and that paraxial cephalic mesendoderm can facilitate its own otic differentiation under certain circumstances.
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