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First published online 1 November 2006
doi: 10.1242/dev.02665

Development 133, 4749-4759 (2006)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2006
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Frizzled3a and Celsr2 function in the neuroepithelium to regulate migration of facial motor neurons in the developing zebrafish hindbrain

Hironori Wada1, Hideomi Tanaka1,2, Satomi Nakayama1, Miki Iwasaki1,2 and Hitoshi Okamoto1,2,*

1 Laboratory for Developmental Gene Regulation, Brain Science Institute, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
2 Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.

* Author for correspondence (e-mail: hitoshi{at}brain.riken.jp)

Accepted 28 September 2006

Migration of neurons from their birthplace to their final target area is a crucial step in brain development. Here, we show that expression of the off-limits/frizzled3a (olt/fz3a) and off-road/celsr2 (ord/celsr2) genes in neuroepithelial cells maintains the facial (nVII) motor neurons near the pial surface during their caudal migration in the zebrafish hindbrain. In the absence of olt/fz3a expression in the neuroepithelium, nVII motor neurons extended aberrant radial processes towards the ventricular surface and mismigrated radially to the dorsomedial part of the hindbrain. Our findings reveal a novel role for these genes, distinctive from their already known functions, in the regulation of the planar cell polarity (i.e. preventing integration of differentiated neurons into the neuroepithelial layer). This contrasts markedly with their reported role in reintegration of neuroepithelial daughter cells into the neuroepithelial layer after cell division.

Key words: Zebrafish, frizzled, celsr, Facial motor neuron, Neuroepithelium




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