PUBLICATION
Lengsin expression and function during zebrafish lens formation
- Authors
- Harding, R.L., Howley, S., Baker, L.J., Murphy, T.R., Archer, W.E., Wistow, G., Hyde, D.R., and Vihtelic, T.S.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-080415-15
- Date
- 2008
- Source
- Experimental Eye Research 86(5): 807-818 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Harding, Rachel, Howley, Sinead, Hyde, David R., Murphy, Taylor, Vihtelic, Thomas
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Cell Differentiation
- Chick Embryo
- Crystallins/metabolism
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Fluorescent Dyes
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
- Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase/genetics
- Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase/metabolism
- Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase/physiology*
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism
- Humans
- Lens, Crystalline/embryology
- Lens, Crystalline/growth & development*
- Lens, Crystalline/metabolism*
- Lens, Crystalline/ultrastructure
- Mice
- Microscopy, Electron
- Oligonucleotides, Antisense
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods
- Species Specificity
- Transgenes
- Zebrafish/embryology
- Zebrafish/growth & development
- Zebrafish/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 18406404 Full text @ Exp. Eye. Res.
Citation
Harding, R.L., Howley, S., Baker, L.J., Murphy, T.R., Archer, W.E., Wistow, G., Hyde, D.R., and Vihtelic, T.S. (2008) Lengsin expression and function during zebrafish lens formation. Experimental Eye Research. 86(5):807-818.
Abstract
A zebrafish ortholog of human lengsin was identified by EST analysis of an adult lens cDNA library. During zebrafish development, lengsin transcription is first detected at 24h post-fertilization (hpf). Immunolocalization, using polyclonal antiserum generated against a Lengsin bacterial fusion protein, detects lens-specific protein in whole-mount embryos at 30hpf. Lengsin expression in zebrafish follows the temporal expression of the alphaA- alphaB1- and betaB1-crystallin proteins in the lens. At 72hpf, Lengsin is localized to a subpopulation of differentiating secondary fiber cells, while no expression is detected in the lens epithelial cells or central lens fibers. In the adult lens, Lengsin is restricted to a narrow band of cortical fibers and co-localizes with actin at the lateral faces of these interdigitating cells. Stable transgenic lines, using a 3kb lengsin genomic fragment to regulate EGFP expression, recapitulate the Lengsin temporal and spatial expression patterns. Lengsin function in zebrafish lens formation was examined by antisense morpholino-mediated translation and mRNA splice inhibition. At 72hpf, the lengsin morphant lenses are reduced in size and exhibit separations within the cortex due to defects in secondary fiber morphogenesis. The location of the morphant lens defects correlates with the Lengsin protein localization at this age. These results demonstrate Lengsin is required for proper fiber cell differentiation by playing roles in either cell elongation or the establishment of cell interactions.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping