Stereotypical cell division orientation controls neural rod midline formation in zebrafish
Quesada-Hernández E, Caneparo L, Schneider S, Winkler S, Liebling M, Fraser S, Heisenberg C-PJ. 2010. Stereotypical cell division orientation controls neural rod midline formation in zebrafish. Current Biology. 20(21), 1966–1972.
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Quesada-Hernández, ElenaISTA;
Caneparo, Luca;
Schneider, SylviaISTA;
Winkler, Sylke;
Liebling, Michael;
Fraser, Scott;
Heisenberg, Carl-Philipp ISTA
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The development of multicellular organisms is dependent on the tight coordination between tissue growth and morphogenesis. The stereotypical orientation of cell divisions has been proposed to be a fundamental mechanism by which proliferating and growing tissues take shape. However, the actual contribution of stereotypical division orientation (SDO) to tissue morphogenesis is unclear. In zebrafish, cell divisions with stereotypical orientation have been implicated in both body-axis elongation and neural rod formation [1, 2], although there is little direct evidence for a critical function of SDO in either of these processes. Here we show that SDO is required for formation of the neural rod midline during neurulation but dispensable for elongation of the body axis during gastrulation. Our data indicate that SDO during both gastrulation and neurulation is dependent on the noncanonical Wnt receptor Frizzled 7 (Fz7) and that interfering with cell division orientation leads to severe defects in neural rod midline formation but not body-axis elongation. These findings suggest a novel function for Fz7-controlled cell division orientation in neural rod midline formation during neurulation.
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2010-11-09
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Current Biology
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This work was supported by grants from the Fundacion Caja Madrid to E.Q.H. and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, the Max-Planck-Society, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to C.P.H.
We are grateful to Jon Clarke, Andy Oates, and Garrett Greenan for reading earlier versions of this manuscript. We thank J. Peychl, H. Ibarra, and P. Pitrone for excellent assistance and advice in multi-photon microscopy and D. White for assistance during the image-processing steps. We also thank D. Panhans for technical assistance, the whole Heisenberg laboratory for useful comments and discussions, and E. Lehmann, J. Hückmann, and G. Junghans for excellent fish care.
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Quesada-Hernández E, Caneparo L, Schneider S, et al. Stereotypical cell division orientation controls neural rod midline formation in zebrafish. Current Biology. 2010;20(21):1966-1972. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.10.009
Quesada-Hernández, E., Caneparo, L., Schneider, S., Winkler, S., Liebling, M., Fraser, S., & Heisenberg, C.-P. J. (2010). Stereotypical cell division orientation controls neural rod midline formation in zebrafish. Current Biology. Cell Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2010.10.009
Quesada-Hernández, Elena, Luca Caneparo, Sylvia Schneider, Sylke Winkler, Michael Liebling, Scott Fraser, and Carl-Philipp J Heisenberg. “Stereotypical Cell Division Orientation Controls Neural Rod Midline Formation in Zebrafish.” Current Biology. Cell Press, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2010.10.009.
E. Quesada-Hernández et al., “Stereotypical cell division orientation controls neural rod midline formation in zebrafish,” Current Biology, vol. 20, no. 21. Cell Press, pp. 1966–1972, 2010.
Quesada-Hernández E, Caneparo L, Schneider S, Winkler S, Liebling M, Fraser S, Heisenberg C-PJ. 2010. Stereotypical cell division orientation controls neural rod midline formation in zebrafish. Current Biology. 20(21), 1966–1972.
Quesada-Hernández, Elena, et al. “Stereotypical Cell Division Orientation Controls Neural Rod Midline Formation in Zebrafish.” Current Biology, vol. 20, no. 21, Cell Press, 2010, pp. 1966–72, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.10.009.