The Molecular Basis of Nasal Pit Morphogenesis and its Role in Upper Lip Formation

鼻凹形态发生的分子基础及其在上唇形成中的作用

• 批准号: 10824138
• 负责人: Luke David Lucido
• 金额: $ 4.56万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-12-01 至 2027-11-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10824138
• 关键词: 3-Dimensional; Ablation; Actomyosin; Apical; Attention; Automobile Driving; Bilateral; Cell Polarity; Cell Proliferation; Cell Shape; Cells; Cellular Assay; Cephalic; Chemicals; Cleft Lip; Cleft lip with or without cleft palate; Complex; Congenital Abnormality; Cytoskeleton; Data; Defect; Development; Ectoderm; Embryo; Epithelial Cells; Epithelium; Etiology; Event; F-Actin; Failure; Genetic Transcription; Growth; Lateral; Ligands; Light; Lip structure; Maxilla; Medial; Mesenchyme; Microfilaments; Modeling; Molecular; Molecular Conformation; Morphogenesis; Morphology; Movement; Mus; Myosin ATPase; Nasal Epithelium; Nose; Outcome; Output; Phenotype; Phosphorylation; Pregnancy; Process; Proliferating; Regulation; Reporting; Role; Series; Shapes; Signal Pathway; Signal Transduction; Specificity; Structural Congenital Anomalies; Structure; Testing; Three-Dimensional Imaging; Time; Tissues; Transforming Growth Factor beta; Visualization; With laterality; constriction; craniofacial; experimental study; lip morphogenesis; malformation; mutant; nestin protein; non-muscle myosin; prevent; receptor

Project Summary/Abstract While cleft lip, with or without cleft palate, is one of the most common craniofacial birth defects, the molecular and cellular etiology of the phenotype is incompletely understood, and the fundamental morphogenesis that underlies upper lip formation remains largely mysterious. This is in part due to a complex three-dimensional topology of the developing midface over a series of several days during mid-gestation. At the onset of lip development, the frontonasal process (FNP) cranial ectoderm undergoes substantial morphological change starting with bilateral thickening and formation of the epithelial nasal placodes, which undergo invagination to form nasal pits, separating the medial nasal processes (MNP) from the lateral nasal processes (LNP). Fusion of the MNP and the LNP encloses the nasal canals and initiates the formation of the upper lip, which also involves fusion of the MNP and maxillary process (MXP). While some studies have focused on the regulation of these final fusion steps, much less attention has been paid to the cellular drivers and molecular regulators of the significant preceding morphologic changes during nasal pit formation as it contributes to proper lip formation. Previous reports together with preliminary data presented here, demonstrate that loss of TGFβ Receptor I (Alk5) within the craniofacial ectoderm leads to cleft lip. TGFβ signaling via TGFβRI can activate both canonical and/or noncanonical downstream signaling pathways in a context specific manner, leading to transcriptional and/or cytoskeletal changes critical in many tissue morphogenesis events. Disruption of TGFβRI or actomyosin contractility through the compound loss of the two major mammalian embryonic non-muscle myosins, NMIIA and NMIIB, results in cleft lip and defects in early nasal pit morphogenesis. This project will test the central hypothesis that nasal pit morphogenesis, driven in part by tissue bending driven by actomyosin contractility, causes conformational changes that bring the MNP/LNP/MXP in proximity for fusion and establish midface structure, and that signaling via TGFβRI is a key regulator of this process. Aim 1 will establish the cellular dynamics driving nasal pit morphogenesis as it contributes to lip formation. Aim 2 will determine how TGFβ signaling via TGFβRI drives nasal pit morphogenesis and lip formation. This study will be a key step in understanding how upper lip morphogenesis occurs, and the mechanisms underlying cleft lip.

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