Off limits - Integrins holding boundaries in somitogenesis
Off limits - Integrins holding boundaries in somitogenesis
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DOI:
10.1016/j.tcb.2005.07.008
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发表时间:
2005-09-01
影响因子:
19
通讯作者:
Jiang, YJ
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作者:
Chong, SW;Jiang, YJ
Borders are essential for demarcating repeated structures such as somites during vertebrate development. Two recent articles describe roles for Integrin alpha 5 and its ligand Fibronectin1 in zebrafish anterior intersomitic boundary formation and link them to Notch and Eph-Ephrin pathways in epithelialization of somite boundary cells. Together with these pathways, Integrin alpha 5 and Fibronectin1 orchestrate the orderly formation of somite and later myotome borders. These studies shed light on components downstream of the periodic segmentation mechanism - the 'segmentation clock' in somitogenesis.