PUBLICATION
Horizontal Boundary Cells, a Special Group of Somitic Cells, Play Crucial Roles in the Formation of Dorsoventral Compartments in Teleost Somite
- Authors
- Abe, K., Shimada, A., Tayama, S., Nishikawa, H., Kaneko, T., Tsuda, S., Karaiwa, A., Matsui, T., Ishitani, T., Takeda, H.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-190530-13
- Date
- 2019
- Source
- Cell Reports 27: 928-939.e4 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Ishitani, Tohru, Matsui, Takaaki, Shimada, Atsuko, Takeda, Hiroyuki, Tsuda, Sachiko
- Keywords
- Hhip, SDF1/CXCR4 signaling, boundary cell, boundary formation, boundary maintenance, canonical Wnt signaling, dermomyotome, dorsoventral patterning, hedgehog signaling, somite
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified/metabolism
- Body Patterning/genetics
- Cell Differentiation
- Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial/genetics
- Fish Proteins/genetics
- Fish Proteins/metabolism*
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Oryzias/metabolism
- Somites/cytology
- Somites/metabolism*
- Transcription Factors/genetics
- Transcription Factors/metabolism*
- Zebrafish/metabolism
- PubMed
- 30995487 Full text @ Cell Rep.
Citation
Abe, K., Shimada, A., Tayama, S., Nishikawa, H., Kaneko, T., Tsuda, S., Karaiwa, A., Matsui, T., Ishitani, T., Takeda, H. (2019) Horizontal Boundary Cells, a Special Group of Somitic Cells, Play Crucial Roles in the Formation of Dorsoventral Compartments in Teleost Somite. Cell Reports. 27:928-939.e4.
Abstract
Establishment of robust gene expression boundary is crucial for creating elaborate morphology during development. However, mechanisms underlying boundary formation have been extensively studied only in a few model systems. We examined the establishment of zic1/zic4-expression boundary demarcating dorsoventral boundary of the entire trunk of medaka fish (Oryzias latipes) and identified a subgroup of dermomyotomal cells called horizontal boundary cells (HBCs) as crucial players for the boundary formation. Embryological and genetic analyses demonstrated that HBCs play crucial roles in the two major events of the process, i.e., refinement and maintenance. In the refinement, HBCs could serve as a chemical barrier against Wnts from the neural tube by expressing Hhip. At later stages, HBCs participate in the maintenance of the boundary by differentiating into the horizontal myoseptum physically inhibiting cell mixing across the boundary. These findings reveal the mechanisms underlying the dorsoventral boundary in the teleost trunk by specialized boundary cells.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping