附着结的不同位置与上皮质折叠的启动有关
Yu-Chiun Wang1, Zia Khan, Matthias Kaschube
1Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Nature
|March 30, 2012
概括
皮质折叠对于发育至关重要,可以通过一种新的机制发生,包括附着结的重新定位. 这个过程由上皮质极性蛋白调节,为组织形态发生提供了新的见解.
科学领域:
- 发展生物学 发展生物学
- 细胞生物学 细胞生物学
- 遗传学 是一个遗传学.
背景情况:
- 表面皮质折叠对于组织形态发生过程中形成复杂结构至关重要.
- 已建立的模型将上皮质折叠归因于肌驱动的尖端收缩.
- 研究了一种涉及附着结位定位和上皮质极性的替代机制.
研究的目的:
- 描述一种用于上皮质折叠的替代机制.
- 为了研究差异粘附在上皮层折叠中的结点定位的作用.
- 为了阐明在这个过程中表皮上基极性的参与.
主要方法:
- 在Drosophila中活体胚胎成像.
- 对粘附体结位定位的分析.
- 研究极性蛋白质Bazooka和Par-1的功能.
- 对蛋白质水平和活性进行操纵.
主要成果:
- 附着结点基本上在Drosophila胃化过程中在背部横折形成期间在启动细胞中转移.
- 这种基底转移取决于极性蛋白质Bazooka和Par-1.
- 减少Bazooka或Par-1活动取消了折叠启动.
- 改变的Bazooka/Par-1比率导致子宫外背.
- 基底连接转移会使细胞形状变形,并促进组织变形.
结论:
- 表皮质极性修饰直接影响表皮质折叠的启动.
- 不同的粘附结位置定位是组织形态发生的一个关键机制.
- 巴祖卡/Par-1通路调节节点定位和随后的组织折叠.
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