Fig. 9
Alk4 but not Alk7 can rescue signaling during gastrulation (A) Alk4* and Alk7*-injected animal caps were treated with 100 μM SB-431542 and p-Smad2 signaling was assessed by Western blot at stage 10.5. (B) Embryos injected with different amounts of xAlk4-HA or rAlk7-HA were treated with 100 μM SB-431542 at stage 6 and harvested for Western blotting at stage 10+. All mRNA levels were equalized to 6 ng total with eGFP. Embryos injected with (C, D) 3 ng xAlk4-HA S275M, (E, F) 3 ng xAlk4-HA WT, (G, H) 4 ng rAlk7-HA S270M, or (I, J) 4 ng rAlk7-HA WT were treated as above and photographed at stage 10+. Note rescue of blastopore lip formation in Alk4 S275M embryo (red arrow in panel B). Embryos are photographed with the vegetal pole showing, dorsal to the upper left. |
Reprinted from Developmental Biology, 295(2), Ho, D.M., Chan, J., Bayliss, P., and Whitman, M., Inhibitor-resistant type I receptors reveal specific requirements for TGF-beta signaling in vivo, 730-742, Copyright (2006) with permission from Elsevier. Full text @ Dev. Biol.