scholarly journals Guidance of trunk neural crest migration requires neuropilin 2/semaphorin 3F signaling

Development ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. S. Gammill
Development ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-118
Author(s):  
C. A. Erickson ◽  
J. A. Weston

The cellular morphology and migratory pathways of the trunk neural crest are described in normal mouse embryos, and in embryos homozygous for Patch in which neural crest derivatives develop abnormally. Trunk neural crest cells initially appear in 8½-day embryos as a unique cell population on the dorsal neural tube surface and are relatively rounded. Once they begin to migrate the cells flatten and orient somewhat tangentially to the neural tube, and advance ventrad between the somites and neural tube. At the onset of migration neural crest cells extend lamellipodia onto the surface of the tube while detaching their trailing processes from the lumenal surface. The basal lamina on the dorsal neural tube is discontinuous when cell migration begins in this region. As development proceeds, the basal lamina gradually becomes continuous from a lateral to dorsal direction and neural crest emigration is progressively confined to the narrowing region of discontinuous basal lamina. Cell separation from the neural tube ceases concomitant with completion of a continuous basement membrane. Preliminary observations of the mutant embryos reveal that abnormal extracellular spaces appear and patterns of crest migration are subsequently altered. We conclude that the extracellular matrix, extracellular spaces and basement membranes may delimit crest migration in the mouse.


2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 295-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Mclennan ◽  
C.E. Krull

2007 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura S. Gammill ◽  
Constanza Gonzalez ◽  
Marianne Bronner-Fraser

Development ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 731-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Wehrle-Haller ◽  
J.A. Weston

Trunk neural crest cells segregate from the neuroepithelium and enter a ‘migration staging area’ lateral to the embryonic neural tube. After some crest cells in the migration staging area have begun to migrate on a medial pathway, a subpopulation of crest-derived cells remaining in the migration staging area expresses mRNAs for the receptor tyrosine kinase, c-kit, and tyrosinase-related protein-2, both of which are characteristic of melanocyte precursors. These putative melanocyte precursors are subsequently observed on the lateral crest migration pathway between the dermatome and overlying epithelium, and then dispersed in nascent dermal mesenchyme. Melanocyte precursors transiently require the c-kit ligand, Steel factor for survival. Although Steel factor mRNA is transiently expressed in the dorsal dermatome before the onset of trunk neural crest cell dispersal on the lateral pathway, it is no longer produced by dermatomal cells when melanocyte precursors have dispersed in the dermal mesenchyme. To assess the role of Steel factor in migration of melanocyte precursors on the lateral pathway, we analyzed melanocyte precursor dispersal and fate on the lateral pathway of two different Sl mutants, Sl, a null allele, and Sld, which lacks cell surface-associated Steel factor but produces a soluble form. No melanocyte precursors were detected in the dermatome of embryos homozygous for the Sl allele or in W mutants that lack functional c-kit. In contrast, in embryos homozygous for the Sld allele, melanocyte precursors appeared on the lateral pathway, but subsequently disappear from the dermis. These results suggest that soluble Steel factor is required for melanocyte precursor dispersal on the lateral pathway, or for their initial survival in the migration staging area. In contrast, membrane-bound Steel factor appears to promote melanocyte precursor survival in the dermis.


Cell Reports ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1489-1500.e3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuwei Li ◽  
Felipe M. Vieceli ◽  
Walter G. Gonzalez ◽  
Ang Li ◽  
Weiyi Tang ◽  
...  

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 571-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Krull ◽  
Rusty Lansford ◽  
Nicholas W. Gale ◽  
Andres Collazo ◽  
Christophe Marcelle ◽  
...  

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