PUBLICATION
Inhibition of neural crest migration underlies craniofacial dysmorphology and Hirschsprung's disease in Bardet-Biedl syndrome
- Authors
- Tobin, J.L., Di Franco, M., Eichers, E., May-Simera, H., Garcia, M., Yan, J., Quinlan, R., Justice, M.J., Hennekam, R.C., Briscoe, J., Tada, M., Mayor, R., Burns, A.J., Lupski, J.R., Hammond, P., and Beales, P.L.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-080501-6
- Date
- 2008
- Source
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105(18): 6714-6719 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Tada, Masazumi
- Keywords
- sonic hedgehog, Wnt, cilia, cell migration
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Bardet-Biedl Syndrome/complications*
- Bardet-Biedl Syndrome/physiopathology
- Cell Movement*
- Cilia/pathology
- Craniofacial Abnormalities/complications*
- Craniofacial Abnormalities/physiopathology
- Enteric Nervous System/physiopathology
- Gastrointestinal Motility
- Hedgehog Proteins/metabolism
- Hirschsprung Disease/complications*
- Hirschsprung Disease/physiopathology
- Humans
- Imaging, Three-Dimensional
- Mice
- Mutation/genetics
- NIH 3T3 Cells
- Neural Crest/pathology*
- Phenotype
- Signal Transduction
- Wnt Proteins/metabolism
- Zebrafish/abnormalities
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 18443298 Full text @ Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Citation
Tobin, J.L., Di Franco, M., Eichers, E., May-Simera, H., Garcia, M., Yan, J., Quinlan, R., Justice, M.J., Hennekam, R.C., Briscoe, J., Tada, M., Mayor, R., Burns, A.J., Lupski, J.R., Hammond, P., and Beales, P.L. (2008) Inhibition of neural crest migration underlies craniofacial dysmorphology and Hirschsprung's disease in Bardet-Biedl syndrome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105(18):6714-6719.
Abstract
Facial recognition is central to the diagnosis of many syndromes, and craniofacial patterns may reflect common etiologies. In the pleiotropic Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS), a primary ciliopathy with intraflagellar transport dysfunction, patients have a characteristic facial "gestalt" that dysmorphologists have found difficult to characterize. Here, we use dense surface modeling (DSM) to reveal that BBS patients and mouse mutants have mid-facial defects involving homologous neural crest-derived structures shared by zebrafish morphants. These defects of the craniofacial (CF) skeleton arise from aberrant cranial neural crest cell (NCC) migration. These effects are not confined to the craniofacial region, but vagal-derived NCCs fail to populate the enteric nervous system, culminating in disordered gut motility. Furthermore, morphants display hallmarks of disrupted Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling from which NCCs take positional cues. We propose a model whereby Bbs proteins modulate NCC migration, contributing to craniofacial morphogenesis and development of the enteric nervous system. These migration defects also explain the association of Hirschsprung's disease (HD) with BBS. Moreover, this is a previously undescribed method of using characterization of facial dysmorphology as a basis for investigating the pathomechanism of CF development in dysmorphic syndromes.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping