PUBLICATION
Adrenergic activation modulates the signal from the Reissner fiber to cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons during development
- Authors
- Cantaut-Belarif, Y., Orts Del'Immagine, A., Penru, M., Pézeron, G., Wyart, C., Bardet, P.L.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-201015-14
- Date
- 2020
- Source
- eLIFE 9: (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Bardet, Pierre-Luc, Pézeron, Guillaume, Wyart, Claire
- Keywords
- developmental biology, neuroscience, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Cerebrospinal Fluid/metabolism*
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/embryology
- Fish Proteins/genetics
- Fish Proteins/metabolism
- Gene Expression
- Morphogenesis/physiology
- Neurons/physiology*
- Neuropeptides/genetics
- Neuropeptides/metabolism
- Signal Transduction
- Spinal Nerves/embryology*
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/genetics
- PubMed
- 33048048 Full text @ Elife
Citation
Cantaut-Belarif, Y., Orts Del'Immagine, A., Penru, M., Pézeron, G., Wyart, C., Bardet, P.L. (2020) Adrenergic activation modulates the signal from the Reissner fiber to cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons during development. eLIFE. 9:.
Abstract
The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) contains an extracellular thread conserved in vertebrates, the Reissner fiber, which controls body axis morphogenesis in the zebrafish embryo. Yet, the signaling cascade originating from this fiber to ensure body axis straightening is not understood. Here, we explore the functional link between the Reissner fiber and undifferentiated spinal neurons contacting the CSF (CSF-cNs). First, we show that the Reissner fiber is required in vivo for the expression of urp2, a neuropeptide expressed in CSF-cNs. We show that the Reissner fiber is also required for embryonic calcium transients in these spinal neurons. Finally, we study how local adrenergic activation can substitute for the Reissner fiber-signaling pathway to CSF-cNs and rescue body axis morphogenesis. Our results show that the Reissner fiber acts on CSF-cNs and thereby contributes to establish body axis morphogenesis, and suggest it does so by controlling the availability of a chemical signal in the CSF.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping