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Vertical Signalling Involves Transmission of Hox Information from Gastrula Mesoderm to Neurectoderm
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Journal Article
Vertical Signalling Involves Transmission of Hox Information from Gastrula Mesoderm to Neurectoderm
2014
Overview
Development and patterning of neural tissue in the vertebrate embryo involves a set of molecules and processes whose relationships are not fully understood. Classical embryology revealed a remarkable phenomenon known as vertical signalling, a gastrulation stage mechanism that copies anterior-posterior positional information from mesoderm to prospective neural tissue. Vertical signalling mediates unambiguous copying of complex information from one tissue layer to another. In this study, we report an investigation of this process in recombinates of mesoderm and ectoderm from gastrulae of Xenopus laevis. Our results show that copying of positional information involves non cell autonomous autoregulation of particular Hox genes whose expression is copied from mesoderm to neurectoderm in the gastrula. Furthermore, this information sharing mechanism involves unconventional translocation of the homeoproteins themselves. This conserved primitive mechanism has been known for three decades but has only recently been put into any developmental context. It provides a simple, robust way to pattern the neurectoderm using the Hox pattern already present in the mesoderm during gastrulation. We suggest that this mechanism was selected during evolution to enable unambiguous copying of rather complex information from cell to cell and that it is a key part of the original ancestral mechanism mediating axial patterning by the highly conserved Hox genes.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Animals
/ Biology
/ Body Patterning - physiology
/ Cell Communication - physiology
/ Copying
/ Ectoderm
/ Embryos
/ Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental - genetics
/ Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental - physiology
/ Genes
/ Green Fluorescent Proteins - genetics
/ Green Fluorescent Proteins - metabolism
/ Imaginal Discs - growth & development
/ Mesoderm
/ Studies
/ Xenopus
