Development, Vol 116, Issue 1 275-287, Copyright © 1992 by Company of Biologists

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Transforming growth factor-beta control of cell-substratum adhesion during avian neural crest cell emigration in vitro

M Delannet and JL Duband
Institut Jacques Monod, Universite Paris 7, France.

It has been proposed that, in higher vertebrates, the onset of neural crest cell migration from the neural tube involves spatially and temporally coordinated changes in cellular adhesiveness that are under the control of external signals released in the extracellular milieu by neighboring tissues. In the present study, we have analyzed the dynamics of changes in cell-substratum adhesiveness during crest cell emigration and searched for regulatory cues using an in vitro model system. This model is based on the fact that, in vivo, crest cell dispersion occurs gradually along a rostrocaudal wave, allowing us to explant portions of the neural axis, termed migratory and premigratory levels, that differ in the time in culture at which neural crest cells initiate migration and in the locomotory behavior of the cells. We found that neural crest cell emigration is not triggered by the main extracellular matrix molecules present in the migratory pathways, as none of these molecules could abolish the intrinsic difference in the timing of emigration between the different axial levels. Using an in vitro adhesion assay, we found that presumptive neural crest cells from premigratory level explants gradually acquired the ability to respond to extracellular matrix material with time in culture, suggesting that acquisition of appropriate, functional integrin receptors was a necessary step for migration. Finally, we showed that members of the transforming growth factor-beta family reduced in a dose-dependent manner the delay of neural crest cell emigration from premigratory level explants and were able to increase significantly the substratum-adhesion properties of crest cells. Our results suggest that acquisition of substratum adhesion by presumptive neural crest cells is a key event during their dispersion from the neural tube in vitro, and that members of the transforming growth factor-beta family may act as potent inducers of crest cell emigration, possibly by increasing the substratum adhesion of the cells.

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