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Nature ; 515(7525): 112-5, 2014 Nov 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25156256

RESUMO

In bilaterians, three orthogonal body axes define the animal form, with distinct anterior-posterior, dorsal-ventral and left-right asymmetries. The key signalling factors are Wnt family proteins for the anterior-posterior axis, Bmp family proteins for the dorsal-ventral axis and Nodal for the left-right axis. Cnidarians, the sister group to bilaterians, are characterized by one oral-aboral body axis, which exhibits a distinct biradiality of unknown molecular nature. Here we analysed the biradial growth pattern in the radially symmetrical cnidarian polyp Hydra, and we report evidence of Nodal in a pre-bilaterian clade. We identified a Nodal-related gene (Ndr) in Hydra magnipapillata, and this gene is essential for setting up an axial asymmetry along the main body axis. This asymmetry defines a lateral signalling centre, inducing a new body axis of a budding polyp orthogonal to the mother polyp's axis. Ndr is expressed exclusively in the lateral bud anlage and induces Pitx, which encodes an evolutionarily conserved transcription factor that functions downstream of Nodal. Reminiscent of its function in vertebrates, Nodal acts downstream of ß-Catenin signalling. Our data support an evolutionary scenario in which a 'core-signalling cassette' consisting of ß-Catenin, Nodal and Pitx pre-dated the cnidarian-bilaterian split. We presume that this cassette was co-opted for various modes of axial patterning: for example, for lateral branching in cnidarians and left-right patterning in bilaterians.


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Padronização Corporal , Hydra/embriologia , Hydra/genética , Proteína Nodal/genética , Proteína Nodal/metabolismo , Transdução de Sinais , Animais , Padronização Corporal/genética , Retroalimentação Fisiológica , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento , Hydra/metabolismo , Fatores de Transcrição Box Pareados/metabolismo , Transdução de Sinais/genética , beta Catenina/metabolismo
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Development ; 141(3): 639-49, 2014 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24449840

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Hox genes are classically ascribed to function in patterning the anterior-posterior axis of bilaterian animals; however, their role in directing molecular mechanisms underlying morphogenesis at the cellular level remains largely unstudied. We unveil a non-classical role for the zebrafish hoxb1b gene, which shares ancestral functions with mammalian Hoxa1, in controlling progenitor cell shape and oriented cell division during zebrafish anterior hindbrain neural tube morphogenesis. This is likely distinct from its role in cell fate acquisition and segment boundary formation. We show that, without affecting major components of apico-basal or planar cell polarity, Hoxb1b regulates mitotic spindle rotation during the oriented neural keel symmetric mitoses that are required for normal neural tube lumen formation in the zebrafish. This function correlates with a non-cell-autonomous requirement for Hoxb1b in regulating microtubule plus-end dynamics in progenitor cells in interphase. We propose that Hox genes can influence global tissue morphogenesis by control of microtubule dynamics in individual cells in vivo.


Assuntos
Divisão Celular , Forma Celular , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/metabolismo , Microtúbulos/metabolismo , Morfogênese , Tubo Neural/citologia , Peixe-Zebra/embriologia , Animais , Região Branquial/embriologia , Região Branquial/metabolismo , Polaridade Celular , Epitélio/embriologia , Epitélio/metabolismo , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/genética , Mitose , Mutação/genética , Tubo Neural/metabolismo , Rombencéfalo/citologia , Rombencéfalo/embriologia , Peixe-Zebra/metabolismo
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