Schohl Anne, Fagotto François
Department of Cell Biology, Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.
EMBO J. 2003 Jul 1;22(13):3303-13. doi: 10.1093/emboj/cdg328.
Mesoderm formation results from an inducing process that requires maternal and zygotic FGF/MAPK and TGFbeta activities, while maternal activation of the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway determines the anterior-dorsal axis. Here, we show a new role of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in mesoderm induction. We find that maternal beta-catenin signaling is not only active dorsally but also all around the equatorial region, coinciding with the prospective mesoderm. Maternal beta-catenin function is required both for expression of dorsal genes and for activation of MAPK and the mesodermal markers Xbra and eomesodermin. beta-catenin acts in a non- cell-autonomous manner upstream of zygotic FGF and nodal signals. The Wnt/beta-catenin activity in the equatorial region of the early embryo is the first example of a maternally provided mesoderm inducer restricted to the prospective mesoderm.
中胚层的形成源于一个诱导过程,该过程需要母体和合子的FGF/MAPK以及TGFβ活性,而Wnt/β-连环蛋白信号通路的母体激活决定了前后背轴。在此,我们展示了Wnt/β-连环蛋白信号在中胚层诱导中的新作用。我们发现母体β-连环蛋白信号不仅在背部活跃,而且在整个赤道区域都活跃,这与预期的中胚层区域一致。母体β-连环蛋白功能对于背侧基因的表达以及MAPK和中胚层标记物Xbra和中胚层决定因子的激活都是必需的。β-连环蛋白在合子FGF和节点信号的上游以非细胞自主的方式起作用。早期胚胎赤道区域的Wnt/β-连环蛋白活性是母体提供的仅限于预期中胚层的中胚层诱导物的首个例子。