Timing in the regulation of neural crest cell migration: retarded "maturation" of regional extracellular matrix inhibits pigment cell migration in embryos of the white axolotl mutant.
Timing in the regulation of neural crest cell migration: retarded "maturation" of regional extracellular matrix inhibits pigment cell migration in embryos of the white axolotl mutant.
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神经嵴细胞迁移调节的时机:区域细胞外基质的延迟“成熟”抑制了白色蝾螈突变体胚胎中色素细胞的迁移。
DOI:
10.1016/s0012-1606(89)80048-x
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发表时间:
1989
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
H. Epperlein
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作者:
J. Löfberg;R. Perris;H. Epperlein
In larvae of the white axolotl mutant (Ambystoma mexicanum), contrary to normal dark ones, trunk pigmentation is restricted because the epidermis is unable to support subepidermal migration of pigment cells from the neural crest (NC). This study examines whether the subepidermal extracellular matrix (ECM) is the defective component which prevents pigment cell migration in the white embryo. We transplanted subepidermal ECM, adsorbed in vivo on membrane microcarriers, from and to white and dark embryos in various combinations. White embryos have demonstrated normal NC cell migration along the medioventral pathway, and in order to test the effects of medial ECM on subepidermal migration, this ECM was similarly transplanted. Carriers with ECM attached were inserted subepidermally in host embryos at a premigratory NC stage. Control carriers without ECM and carriers with subepidermal ECM from white donors did not affect NC cell migration in white or dark embryos. In contrast, subepidermal ECM from dark donors triggered NC cell migration in the subepidermal space of both white and dark hosts. Remarkably, subepidermal ECM from white donors which were older than those normally used also stimulated migration in embryos of both strains. Likewise, medial ECM from white donors elicited migration in white as well as dark hosts. Pigment cells occurred among those NC cells that were stimulated to migrate in response to contact with ECM on carriers. These results indicate that the subepidermal ECM of the white embryo is transiently defective as a substrate for pigment cell migration, implying that “maturation” of the ECM is retarded beyond the times during which pigment cells are able to respond. In contrast, the medial ECM of the white embryo appears to mature normally. These findings suggest that the effect of thedgene is expressed regionally through the subepidermal ECM during a limited period of development. Hence, the action of thedgene seems to retard ECM maturation, bringing it out of phase with the migratory capability of the pigment cells. We propose that such a shift in relative timing of the developmental phenomena involved inhibits pigment cell migration in embryos of the white axolotl mutant and, accordingly, that the restricted pigmentation of the mutant larva is generated through heterochrony.
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发表时间:
1986
期刊:
Journal of embryology and experimental morphology
影响因子:
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作者:
Tucker,RP
通讯作者:
Tucker,RP