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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2011

Specification of ion transport cells in the Xenopus larval skin.

Ian K Quigley, Jennifer L Stubbs, Chris Kintner

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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 73 papers.

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73citing papers in PubMed
7.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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73 citing papers in PubMed, 124 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ian K QuigleyThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Jennifer L Stubbs
Chris Kintner
Salk Institute for Biological Studies · US

Funding

Molecular Bases of Cilia OrientationR01GM076507 · NIGMS · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI KINTNER, CHRISTOPHER ROBERT · 2005 to 2017
$4.9M
The transcriptional control and function of proton-secreting cellsF32DK084706 · NIDDK · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI QUIGLEY, IAN K. · 2011 to 2013
$161k
NIDDK NIH HHS F32 DK084706NIGMS NIH HHS GM07650NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM076507
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Specialized epithelial cells in the amphibian skin play important roles in ion transport, but how they arise developmentally is largely unknown. Here we show that proton-secreting cells (PSCs) differentiate in the X. laevis larval skin soon after gastrulation, based on the expression of a `kidney-specific' form of the H(+)v-ATPase that localizes to the plasma membrane, orthologs of the Cl(-)/HCO(-)(3) antiporters ae1 and pendrin, and two isoforms of carbonic anhydrase. Like PSCs in other species, we show that the expression of these genes is likely to be driven by an ortholog of foxi1, which is also sufficient to promote the formation of PSC precursors. Strikingly, the PSCs form in the skin as two distinct subtypes that resemble the alpha- and beta-intercalated cells of the kidney. The alpha-subtype expresses ae1 and localizes H(+)v-ATPases to the apical plasma membrane, whereas the beta-subtype expresses pendrin and localizes the H(+)v-ATPase cytosolically or basolaterally. These two subtypes are specified during early PSC differentiation by a binary switch that can be regulated by Notch signaling and by the expression of ubp1, a transcription factor of the grainyhead family. These results have implications for how PSCs are specified in vertebrates and become functionally heterogeneous.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell CommunicationCell DifferentiationGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalIon PumpsReceptors, NotchSignal TransductionSkinTranscription FactorsXenopus laevisXenopus ProteinsIon PumpsNOTCH1 protein, XenopusReceptors, NotchTranscription FactorsXenopus Proteins

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PMID21266406
PMCPMC3026415
OpenAlexW2004820918

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