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Development ePress online publication date 28 Sep 2005
doi: 10.1242/dev.02063

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{beta}-Catenin is essential for pancreatic acinar but not islet development


L. Charles Murtaugh, Anica C. Law, Yuval Dor, and Douglas A. Melton*
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: dmelton{at}mcb.harvard.edu)

Despite our increasingly sophisticated understanding of transcriptional regulation in pancreas development, we know relatively little about the extrinsic signaling pathways involved in this process. We show here that the early pancreatic epithelium exhibits a specific enrichment in unphosphorylated {beta}-catenin protein, a hallmark of activation of the canonical Wnt signaling pathway. To determine if this pathway is functionally required for normal pancreas development, we have specifically deleted the {beta}-catenin gene in these cells. Pancreata developing without {beta}-catenin are hypoplastic, although their early progenitors appear normal and exhibit no premature differentiation or death. Surprisingly, and in marked contrast to its role in the intestine, loss of {beta}-catenin does not significantly perturb islet endocrine cell mass or function. The major defect of the {beta}-catenin-deficient pancreas is an almost complete lack of acinar cells, which normally comprise the majority of the organ. {beta}-Catenin appears to be cell-autonomously required for the specification of acinar cells, rather than for their survival or maintenance, as deletion of {beta}-catenin specifically in differentiated acinar cells has no effect. Thus, our data are consistent with a crucial role for canonical Wnt signals in acinar lineage specification and differentiation.
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