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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2011

Rapid differential transport of Nodal and Lefty on sulfated proteoglycan-rich extracellular matrix regulates left-right asymmetry in Xenopus.

Lindsay Marjoram, Christopher Wright

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. TGF-β Family Signaling in Early Vertebrate Development.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2018
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  8. Antagonistic interactions in the zebrafish midline prior to the emergence of asymmetric gene expression are important for left-right patterning.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016
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  10. Agonists and Antagonists of TGF-β Family Ligands.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2016
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  16. Chordin forms a self-organizing morphogen gradient in the extracellular space between ectoderm and mesoderm in the Xenopus embryo.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lindsay MarjoramDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, Program in Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
Christopher Wright
Vanderbilt University · US

Funding

Training Program in Stem Cell and Regenerative Developmental BiologyT32HD007502 · NICHD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WRIGHT, CHRISTOPHER V · 1997 to 2022
$5.4M
BIOLOGICAL ROLES OF NODAL RELATED GENES IN EMBRYOGENESISR01GM056238 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WRIGHT, CHRISTOPHER V · 1997 to 2010
$2.8M
NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD007502NICHD NIH HHS T32-HD007502NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM056238NIGMS NIH HHS R01-GM56238
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The spatiotemporally dynamic distribution of instructive ligands within embryonic tissue, and their feedback antagonists, including inherent stabilities and rates of clearance, are affected by interactions with cell surfaces or extracellular matrix (ECM). Nodal (here, Xnr1 or Nodal1 in Xenopus) and Lefty interact in a cross-regulatory relationship in mesendoderm induction, and are the conserved instructors of left-right (LR) asymmetry in early somitogenesis stage embryos. By expressing Xnr1 and Lefty proproteins that produce mature functional epitope-tagged ligands in vivo, we found that ECM is a principal surface of Nodal and Lefty accumulation. We detected Lefty moving faster than Nodal, with evidence that intact sulfated proteoglycans in the ECM facilitate the remarkable long distance movement of Nodal. We propose that Nodal autoregulation substantially aided by rapid ligand transport underlies the anteriorward shift of Nodal expression in the left LPM (lateral plate mesoderm), and speculate that the higher levels of chondroitin-sulfate proteoglycan (CSPG) in more mature anterior regions provide directional transport cues. Immunodetection and biochemical analysis showed transfer of Lefty from left LPM to right LPM, providing direct evidence that left-side-derived Lefty is a significant influence in ensuring the continued suppression of right-sided expression of Nodal, maintaining unilateral expression of this conserved determinant of asymmetry.

Indexed as

AnimalsBlotting, WesternBody PatterningEmbryo, NonmammalianExtracellular MatrixFluorescent Antibody TechniqueGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalLeft-Right Determination FactorsMesodermNodal ProteinProteoglycansXenopusXenopus ProteinsLeft-Right Determination FactorsNodal ProteinProteoglycansXenopus Proteins

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PMID21205792
PMCPMC3014634
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