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Regulation of neurocoel morphogenesis by Pard6gammab

Authors
Munson, C., Huisken, J., Bit-Avragim, N., Kuo, T., Dong, P.D., Ober, E.A., Verkade, H., Abdelilah-Seyfried, S., and Stainier, D.Y.
ID
ZDB-PUB-081001-10
Date
2008
Source
Developmental Biology   324(1): 41-54 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Abdelilah-Seyfried, Salim, Dong, P. Duc, Ober, Elke, Stainier, Didier, Verkade, Heather
Keywords
Par6, neurulation, apicobasal polarity, epithelium, zebrafish
MeSH Terms
  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/genetics
  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/physiology*
  • Animals
  • Cell Polarity
  • Epithelium/embryology
  • Morphogenesis
  • Mutation
  • Neural Tube/embryology*
  • Neural Tube/physiology
  • Neurulation
  • Spindle Apparatus/physiology
  • Zebrafish/embryology*
  • Zebrafish/physiology
  • Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
  • Zebrafish Proteins/physiology*
PubMed
18817769 Full text @ Dev. Biol.
Abstract
The Par3/Par6/aPKC protein complex plays a key role in the establishment and maintenance of apicobasal polarity, a cellular characteristic essential for tissue and organ morphogenesis, differentiation and homeostasis. During a forward genetic screen for liver and pancreas mutants, we identified a pard6gammab mutant, representing the first known pard6 mutant in a vertebrate organism. pard6gammab mutants exhibit defects in epithelial tissue development as well as multiple lumens in the neural tube. Analyses of the cells lining the neural tube cavity, or neurocoel, in wildtype and pard6gammab mutant embryos show that lack of Pard6gammab function leads to defects in mitotic spindle orientation during neurulation. We also found that the PB1 (aPKC-binding) and CRIB (Cdc-42-binding) domains and the KPLG amino acid sequence within the PDZ domain (Pals1-and Crumbs binding) are not required for Pard6gammab localization but are essential for its function in neurocoel morphogenesis. Apical membranes are reduced, but not completely absent, in mutants lacking the zygotic, or both the maternal and zygotic, function of pard6gammab, leading us to examine the localization and function of the three additional zebrafish Pard6 proteins. We found that Pard6alpha, but not Pard6beta or Pard6gammaa, could partially rescue the pard6gammab(s441) mutant phenotypes. Altogether, these data indicate a previously unappreciated functional diversity and complexity within the vertebrate pard6 gene family.
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