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Neuroepithelial cells require fucosylated glycans to guide the migration of vagus motor neuron progenitors in the developing zebrafish hindbrain

Authors
Ohata, S., Kinoshita, S., Aoki, R., Tanaka, H., Wada, H., Tsuruoka-Kinoshita, S., Tsuboi, T., Watabe, S., and Okamoto, H.
ID
ZDB-PUB-090417-11
Date
2009
Source
Development (Cambridge, England)   136(10): 1653-1663 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Ohata, Shinya, Okamoto, Hitoshi, Tanaka, Hideomi, Wada, Hironori
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Hydro-Lyases/genetics
  • Mutation
  • Zebrafish/embryology
  • Zebrafish/physiology*
  • Motor Neurons/physiology*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Green Fluorescent Proteins/biosynthesis
  • Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Embryo, Nonmammalian/cytology
  • Embryo, Nonmammalian/physiology
  • Animals, Genetically Modified
  • Polysaccharides/physiology*
  • Vagus Nerve/cytology
  • Vagus Nerve/embryology
  • Vagus Nerve/physiology*
  • Stem Cells/physiology*
  • Rhombencephalon/cytology
  • Rhombencephalon/embryology*
  • Body Patterning
  • Neuroepithelial Cells/physiology*
  • Cell Movement
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PubMed
19369395 Full text @ Development
Abstract
The molecular mechanisms by which neurons migrate and accumulate to form the neural layers and nuclei remain unclear. The formation of vagus motor nuclei in zebrafish embryos is an ideal model system in which to address this issue because of the transparency of the embryos and the availability of established genetic and molecular biological techniques. To determine the genes required for the formation of the vagus motor nuclei, we performed N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-based mutant screening using a zebrafish line that expresses green fluorescent protein in the motor neurons. In wild-type embryos, the vagus motor neuron progenitors are born in the ventral ventricular zone, then migrate tangentially in the dorsolateral direction, forming the nuclei. However, in towhead (twd(rw685)) mutant embryos, the vagus motor neuron progenitors stray medially away from the normal migratory pathway and fail to stop in the right location. The twd(rw685) mutant has a defect in the GDP-mannose 4,6 dehydratase (gmds) gene, which encodes a key enzyme in the fucosylation pathway. Levels of fucosylated glycans were markedly and specifically reduced in twd(rw685) mutant embryos. Cell transplantation analysis revealed that GMDS is not essential in the vagus motor neuron progenitors for correct formation of the vagus motor nuclei, but is required in the neuroepithelial cells that surround the progenitors. Together, these findings suggest that fucosylated glycans expressed in neuroepithelial cells are required to guide the migration of vagus motor neuron progenitors.
Genes / Markers
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Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Allele Construct Type Affected Genomic Region
rw0TgTransgenic Insertion
    rw685
      Point Mutation
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      Human Disease / Model
      No data available
      Sequence Targeting Reagents
      Target Reagent Reagent Type
      ft1MO1-ft1MRPHLNO
      ft2MO1-ft2MRPHLNO
      fut7MO1-fut7MRPHLNO
      fut8aMO1-fut8aMRPHLNO
      fut9b.1MO1-fut9b.1MRPHLNO
      gmdsMO1-gmdsMRPHLNO
      pofut1MO1-pofut1MRPHLNO
      pofut2MO2-pofut2MRPHLNO
      pofut3MO1-pofut3MRPHLNO
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      Fish
      Antibodies
      Name Type Antigen Genes Isotypes Host Organism
      Ab1-gadpolyclonal
        Rabbit
        Ab1-prkczpolyclonalIgGRabbit
        AB1-SLEVgpmonoclonal
          IgG2aMouse
          Ab1-tjp1monoclonalIgG1Mouse
          Ab13-GFPpolyclonalRabbit
          AB14-GFPpolyclonalGoat
          zn-5monoclonalIgG1Mouse
          zn-12monoclonal
            IgG1Mouse
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            Orthology
            No data available
            Engineered Foreign Genes
            Marker Marker Type Name
            GFPEFGGFP
            1 - 1 of 1
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            Mapping
            Entity Type Entity Symbol Location
            Featurerw685Chr: 20 Details
            SSLPz14614Chr: 20 Details
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