Fig. 2
plk2b regulates endothelial cell sprouting. (A–D) Fluorescence micrographs show that loss of plk2b function in Tg(kdrl:mcherry-ras) zebrafish embryos results in underdeveloped intersomitic vessel sprouting (open arrowheads) at 36 hpf. (A) control MO (n=0/149); (B) plk2b ATG MO (MO1) (n=125/171); (C) plk2b splice MO (MO2) (n=89/137); (D) dn-plk2b RNA – dominant negative plk2b (n=49/85). Injecting (E) 80 pg of plk2b (n=31/103) or (F) 80 pg of hPLK2 (n=24/71) can rescue the plk2b MO1 vascular sprouting defect. (G) Injecting 80 pg of plk2b RNA into wild-type Tg(kdrl:mcherry-ras) embryos did not cause any significant vascular phenotypes (n=0/105). However, (H) injecting 160 pg of plk2b resulted in increased ISV spouting and branches (arrowheads) (n=91/145). Top, dorsal longitudinal anastomotic vessel (yellow asterisk); bottom, dorsal aorta/cardinal vein. Scale bar, 80 µm. Quantitative measurements of (I) intersomitic vessel length and (J) the number of ISV branches for each corresponding condition. Mean±s.e.m. *p<0.05 by ANOVA. |
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Reprinted from Developmental Biology, 404(2), Yang, H., Fang, L., Zhan, R., Hegarty, J.M., Ren, J., Hsiai, T.K., Gleeson, J.G., Miller, Y.I., Trejo, J., Chi, N.C., Polo-like kinase 2 regulates angiogenic sprouting and blood vessel development, 49-60, Copyright (2015) with permission from Elsevier. Full text @ Dev. Biol.