期刊
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
卷 433, 期 1, 页码 17-32出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2017.10.021
关键词
Retinoic Acid; Neural crest; Meis3; Zebrafish; Enteric nervous system
资金
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Program Award (PDEP)
- NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA) [HD080343]
- Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- NIH [DE024157]
- fish facility grant from Beckman Institute, Caltech
The enteric nervous system arises from neural crest cells that migrate as chains into and along the primitive gut, subsequently differentiating into enteric neurons and glia. Little is known about the mechanisms governing neural crest migration en route to and along the gut in vivo. Here, we report that Retinoic Acid (RA) temporally controls zebrafish enteric neural crest cell chain migration. In vivo imaging reveals that RA loss severely compromises the integrity and migration of the chain of neural crest cells during the window of time window when they are moving along the foregut. After loss of RA, enteric progenitors accumulate in the foregut and differentiate into enteric neurons, but subsequently undergo apoptosis resulting in a striking neuronal deficit. Moreover, ectopic expression of the transcription factor meis3 and/or the receptor ret, partially rescues enteric neuron colonization after RA attenuation. Collectively, our findings suggest that retinoic acid plays a critical temporal role in promoting enteric neural crest chain migration and neuronal survival upstream of Meis3 and RET in vivo.
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