scholarly journals Mouse Crumbs3 sustains epithelial tissue morphogenesis in vivo

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie E. Charrier ◽  
Elise Loie ◽  
Patrick Laprise
1984 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. R. Merrell ◽  
R. I. Walker ◽  
S. W. Joseph

The initial interaction and adherence of Vibrio parahemolyticus to epithelial tissue culture cells, human buccal epithelial cells, and the ileal mucosa of mice were studied. Using scanning electron microscopy, adherent bacteria were observed only on degenerating human embryonic intestinal, HeLa, and buccal cells; healthy normal cells were devoid of bacteria. Sheared V. parahaemolyticus, i.e., lacking flagella, did not adhere to either normal or degenerating tissue cells. Neither ultraviolet-inactivated organisms nor cell-free culture supernate affected the epithelial cells. Similar findings were observed on the mucosa of the ileum in mice inoculated with V. parahaemolyticus. It appears that V. parahaemolyticus possesses a cytotoxic factor which alters epithelial cells. This factor appears to be closely associated with viable organisms and may be a functional element in the adherence process of flagellated V. parahaemolyticus to mammalian epithelial cells.


Nature ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 561 (7722) ◽  
pp. 243-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masakazu Kurita ◽  
Toshikazu Araoka ◽  
Tomoaki Hishida ◽  
David D. O’Keefe ◽  
Yuta Takahashi ◽  
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1997 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Stahl ◽  
S. Weitzman ◽  
J.C. Jones

In vivo, normal mammary epithelial cells utilize hemidesmosome attachment devices to adhere to stroma. However, analyses of a potential role for hemidesmosomes and their components in mammary epithelial tissue morphogenesis have never been attempted. MCF-10A cells are a spontaneously immortalized line derived from mammary epithelium and possess a number of characteristics of normal mammary epithelial cells including expression of hemidesmosomal associated proteins such as the two bullous pemphigoid antigens, alpha 6 beta 4 integrin and its ligand laminin-5. More importantly, MCF-10A cells readily assemble mature hemidesmosomes when plated onto uncoated substrates. When maintained on matrigel, like their normal breast epithelial cell counterparts, MCF-10A cells undergo a branching morphogenesis and assemble hemidesmosomes at sites of cell-matrigel interaction. Function blocking antibodies specific for human laminin-5 and the alpha subunits of its two known receptors (alpha 3 beta 1 and alpha 6 beta 4 integrin) not only inhibit hemidesmosome assembly by MCF-10A cells but also impede branching morphogenesis induced by matrigel. Our results imply that the hemidesmosome, in particular those subunits comprising its laminin-5/integrin ‘backbone’, play an important role in morphogenetic events. We discuss these results in light of recent evidence that hemidesmosomes are sites involved in signal transduction.


2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (75) ◽  
pp. 2614-2623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Bonnet ◽  
Philippe Marcq ◽  
Floris Bosveld ◽  
Luc Fetler ◽  
Yohanns Bellaïche ◽  
...  

During development, epithelial tissues undergo extensive morphogenesis based on coordinated changes of cell shape and position over time. Continuum mechanics describes tissue mechanical state and shape changes in terms of strain and stress. It accounts for individual cell properties using only a few spatially averaged material parameters. To determine the mechanical state and parameters in the Drosophila pupa dorsal thorax epithelium, we severed in vivo the adherens junctions around a disc-shaped domain comprising typically a hundred cells. This enabled a direct measurement of the strain along different orientations at once. The amplitude and the anisotropy of the strain increased during development. We also measured the stress-to-viscosity ratio and similarly found an increase in amplitude and anisotropy. The relaxation time was of the order of 10 s. We propose a space–time, continuous model of the relaxation. Good agreement with experimental data validates the description of the epithelial domain as a continuous, linear, visco-elastic material. We discuss the relevant time and length scales. Another material parameter, the ratio of external friction to internal viscosity, is estimated by fitting the initial velocity profile. Together, our results contribute to quantify forces and displacements, and their time evolution, during morphogenesis.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 2038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xudiyang Zhou ◽  
Ikiru Atsuta ◽  
Yasunori Ayukawa ◽  
Ikue Narimatsu ◽  
Tianren Zhou ◽  
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The improvement of peri-implant epithelium (PIE) adhesion to titanium (Ti) may promote Ti dental implant stability. This study aims to investigate whether there is a positive effect of Ti hydrothermally treated (HT) with calcium chloride (CaCl2), zinc chloride (ZnCl2), and strontium chloride (SrCl2) on promoting PIE sealing. We analyzed the response of a rat oral epithelial cell (OEC) culture and performed an in vivo study in which the maxillary right first molars of rats were extracted and replaced with calcium (Ca)-HT, zinc (Zn)-HT, strontium (Sr)-HT, or non-treated control (Cont) implants. The OEC adhesion on Ca-HT and Zn-HT Ti plates had a higher expression of adhesion proteins than cells on the Cont and Sr-HT Ti plates. Additionally, the implant PIE of the Ca-HT and Zn-HT groups revealed better expression of immunoreactive laminin-332 (Ln-322) at 2 weeks after implantation. The Ca-HT and Zn-HT groups also showed better attachment at the implant–PIE interface, which inhibited horseradish peroxidase penetration. These results demonstrated that the divalent cations of Ca (Ca2+) and Zn (Zn2+)-HT improve the integration of epithelium around the implant, which may facilitate the creation of a soft barrier around the implant to protect it from foreign body penetration.


2019 ◽  
Vol 218 (8) ◽  
pp. 2743-2761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Krueger ◽  
Theresa Quinkler ◽  
Simon Arnold Mortensen ◽  
Carsten Sachse ◽  
Stefano De Renzis

Contraction of cortical actomyosin networks driven by myosin activation controls cell shape changes and tissue morphogenesis during animal development. In vitro studies suggest that contractility also depends on the geometrical organization of actin filaments. Here we analyze the function of actomyosin network topology in vivo using optogenetic stimulation of myosin-II in Drosophila embryos. We show that early during cellularization, hexagonally arrayed actomyosin fibers are resilient to myosin-II activation. Actomyosin fibers then acquire a ring-like conformation and become contractile and sensitive to myosin-II. This transition is controlled by Bottleneck, a Drosophila unique protein expressed for only a short time during early cellularization, which we show regulates actin bundling. In addition, it requires two opposing actin cross-linkers, Filamin and Fimbrin. Filamin acts synergistically with Bottleneck to facilitate hexagonal patterning, while Fimbrin controls remodeling of the hexagonal network into contractile rings. Thus, actin cross-linking regulates the spatio-temporal organization of actomyosin contraction in vivo, which is critical for tissue morphogenesis.


2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 1402-1408
Author(s):  
Danila Coradini ◽  
Simone Gambazza ◽  
Saro Oriana ◽  
Federico Ambrogi

Abstract Cell polarity is crucial for the correct structural and functional organization of epithelial tissue. Its disruption can lead to loss of the apicobasal polarity, alteration in the intracellular components, misregulation of the pathways involved in cell proliferation and cancer promotion. Very recent in vitro/in vivo findings demonstrated that obesity-associated alterations in tissue adipokines protein level negatively affect epithelial polarity. We performed an in silico study to investigate whether such alterations also occur in surgical samples. We aimed to explore the relationship among the expression of the genes coding for leptin (LEP), adiponectin (ADIPOQ), adipokine receptors (LEPR, ADIPOR1 and ADIPOR2), and a panel of polarity-associated genes in normal tissue from breast reduction mammoplasty, and a series of paired samples of histologically normal (HN) tissue and invasive cancer. Results indicated that, in normal tissue, the expression of adipokines and their receptors negatively correlated with that of the polarity-associated genes and GGT1, which codes for γ-glutamyl transferase (GGT) enzyme, a marker of cell distress and membrane disruption. This negative correlation progressively decreased in HN and cancerous tissue, and loss of correlation between ADIPOR2 and polarity-associated genes appeared the most noticeable alteration. Given the growing role of obesity in breast cancer etiology and the opposite action of leptin and adiponectin in epithelial tissue remodeling, ADIPOR2 loss could be addressed as a key mechanism leading to an unbalanced leptin stimulatory activity, subsequent cell polarity disruption and eventually tumor initiation, a finding that requires to be confirmed also at the protein level and with in vivo models.


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