PUBLICATION
Organizer-derived Bmp2 is required for the formation of a correct Bmp activity gradient during embryonic development
- Authors
- Xue, Y., Zheng, X., Huang, L., Xu, P., Ma, Y., Min, Z., Tao, Q., Tao, Y., Meng, A.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-140513-69
- Date
- 2014
- Source
- Nature communications 5: 3766 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Meng, Anming, Xu, Peng-Fei
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Blotting, Western
- Body Patterning/physiology*
- Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2/metabolism*
- Chromatin Immunoprecipitation
- DNA Primers/genetics
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/physiology*
- Glycoproteins/metabolism
- In Situ Hybridization
- Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/metabolism
- Luciferases
- Microscopy, Confocal
- Models, Biological*
- Organizers, Embryonic/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/physiology*
- Smad Proteins/metabolism
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 24777107 Full text @ Nat. Commun.
Citation
Xue, Y., Zheng, X., Huang, L., Xu, P., Ma, Y., Min, Z., Tao, Q., Tao, Y., Meng, A. (2014) Organizer-derived Bmp2 is required for the formation of a correct Bmp activity gradient during embryonic development. Nature communications. 5:3766.
Abstract
Bone morphogenetic proteins (Bmps) control dorsoventral patterning of vertebrate embryos through the establishment of a ventrodorsal gradient of the activated downstream cytoplasmic effectors Smad1/5/8. Some Bmp ligands are expressed in the ventral and lateral regions and in the organizer during gastrulation of the embryo, but it remains unclear how organizer-derived Bmps contribute to total Bmp ligand levels and to the establishment of the correct phospho-Smad1/5/8 gradient along the ventrodorsal axis. Here we demonstrate that interference with organizer-specific Bmp2b signalling in zebrafish embryos alters the phospho-Smad1/5/8 gradient throughout the ventrodorsal axis, elevates the levels of the Bmp antagonist Chordin and dorsalizes the embryos. Moreover, we show that organizer-derived Bmp2b represses chordin transcription in the organizer and contributes to the control of the Chordin gradient. Combining these experimental results with simulations of Bmp's reaction-diffusion dynamics, our data indicate that organizer-produced Bmp2b is required for the establishment and maintenance of a Bmp activity gradient and for appropriate embryonic dorsoventral patterning during gastrulation.
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