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Convergent Extension Movements and Ciliary Function are Mediated by ofd1, A Zebrafish Orthologue of the Human Oral-Facial-Digital Type 1 Syndrome Gene

Authors
Ferrante, M.I., Romio, L., Castro, S., Collins, J.E., Goulding, D.A., Stemple, D.L., Woolf, A.S., and Wilson, S.W.
ID
ZDB-PUB-081031-7
Date
2009
Source
Human molecular genetics   18(2): 289-303 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Castro, Silvia, Stemple, Derek L., Wilson, Steve
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Body Patterning
  • Cell Polarity
  • Centrosome/metabolism
  • Cilia/genetics
  • Cilia/physiology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Orofaciodigital Syndromes/embryology
  • Orofaciodigital Syndromes/genetics*
  • Orofaciodigital Syndromes/metabolism
  • Orofaciodigital Syndromes/physiopathology
  • Signal Transduction
  • Zebrafish
  • Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
  • Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
PubMed
18971206 Full text @ Hum. Mol. Genet.
Abstract
In humans, OFD1 is mutated in oral-facial-digital type I syndrome leading to prenatal death in hemizygous males and dysmorphic faces and brain malformations, with polycystic kidneys presenting later in life in heterozygous females. To elucidate the function of Ofd1, we have studied its function during zebrafish embryonic development. In wild-type embryos, ofd1 mRNA is widely expressed and Ofd1-GFP fusion protein localizes to the centrosome/basal body. Disrupting Ofd1 using antisense morpholinos (MOs) led to bent body axes, hydrocephalus and oedema. Laterality was randomised in the brain, heart and viscera, likely a consequence of shorter cilia with disrupted axonemes and perturbed intravesicular fluid flow in Kupffer's vesicle. Embryos injected with ofd1 MOs also displayed convergent extension (CE) defects, which were enhanced by loss of Slb/Wnt11 or Tri/Vangl2, two proteins functioning in a non-canonical Wnt/Planar Cell Polarity (PCP) pathway. Pronephric glomerular midline fusion was compromised in vangl2 and ofd1 loss of function embryos and we suggest this anomaly may be a novel CE defect. Thus, Ofd1 is required for ciliary motility and function in zebrafish, supporting data showing that Ofd1 is essential for primary cilia function in mice. In addition, our data show that Ofd1 is important for CE during gastrulation, consistent with data linking primary cilia and non-canonical Wnt/PCP signalling.
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