Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Sci Rep. 2019 Apr 1;9(1):5440. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41840-8.
In both vertebrates and invertebrates, spatial patterning along the Dorsal-ventral (DV) embryonic axis depends on a morphogen gradient of Bone Morphogenetic Protein signaling. Scale invariance of DV patterning by BMPs has been found in both vertebrates and invertebrates, however the mechanisms that regulate gradient scaling remain controversial. To obtain quantitative data that can be used to address core questions of scaling, we introduce a method to tune the size of zebrafish embryos by reducing varying amounts of vegetal yolk. We quantified the BMP signaling gradient in wild-type and perturbed embryos and found that the system scales for reductions in cross-sectional perimeter of up to 30%. Furthermore, we found that the degree of scaling for intraspecies scaling within zebrafish is greater than that between Danioninae species.
在脊椎动物和无脊椎动物中,沿着背腹(DV)胚胎轴的空间模式依赖于骨形态发生蛋白信号的形态发生梯度。脊椎动物和无脊椎动物都发现 BMP 对 DV 模式的尺度不变性,然而,调节梯度缩放的机制仍然存在争议。为了获得可用于解决缩放核心问题的定量数据,我们引入了一种通过减少不同量的植物卵黄来调整斑马鱼胚胎大小的方法。我们量化了野生型和受扰胚胎中的 BMP 信号梯度,发现该系统可针对横截面周长减少 30%进行缩放。此外,我们发现,斑马鱼种内缩放的缩放程度大于 Danioninae 物种之间的缩放程度。