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Development, Vol 126, Issue 13 2955-2965, Copyright © 1999 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
T Roeser, S Stein and M Kessel
Max-Planck-Institut fur biophysikalische Chemie, Abteilung fur Molekulare Zellbiologie, Am Fassberg, D-37077 Gottingen, Germany.
Studies in Xenopus laevis and zebrafish suggest a key role for beta-catenin in the specification of the axis of bilateral symmetry. In these organisms, nuclear beta-catenin demarcates the dorsalizing centers. We have asked whether beta-catenin plays a comparable role in the chick embryo and how it is adapted to the particular developmental constraints of chick development. The first nuclear localization of beta-catenin is observed in late intrauterine stages of development in the periphery of the blastoderm, the developing area opaca and marginal zone. Obviously, this early, radially symmetric domain does not predict the future organizing center of the embryo. During further development, cells containing nuclear beta-catenin spread under the epiblast and form the secondary hypoblast. The onset of hypoblast formation thus demarcates the first bilateral symmetry in nuclear beta-catenin distribution. Lithium chloride exposure also causes ectopic nuclear localization of beta-catenin in cells of the epiblast in the area pellucida. Embryos treated before primitive streak formation become completely radialized, as shown by the expression of molecular markers, CMIX and GSC. Lithium treatments performed during early or medium streak stages cause excessive development of the anterior primitive streak, node and notochord, and lead to a degeneration of prospective ventral and posterior structures, as shown by the expression of the molecular markers GSC, CNOT1, BMP2 and Ch-Tbx6L. In summary, we found that in spite of remarkable spatiotemporal differences, beta-catenin acts in the chick in a manner similar to that in fish and amphibia.
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