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ArticleJournal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN2011

Pronephric tubulogenesis requires Daam1-mediated planar cell polarity signaling.

Rachel K Miller, Sol Gomez de la Torre Canny, Chuan-Wei Jang, Kyucheol Cho, Hong Ji, Daniel S Wagner, Elizabeth A Jones, Raymond Habas, Pierre D McCrea

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Article in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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32 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The dishevelled associated activator of morphogenesis protein 2 (Daam2) regulates neural tube closure.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2024
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  17. Wnt Signaling in Kidney Development and Disease.Progress in molecular biology and translational science · 2018
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  20. Xenopus: leaping forward in kidney organogenesis.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Rachel K MillerDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Sol Gomez de la Torre Canny
Chuan-Wei Jang
Kyucheol Cho
Hong Ji
Daniel S Wagner
Elizabeth A Jones
Raymond Habas
Pierre D McCrea
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USRice University · USBaylor College of Medicine · USTemple University · USUniversity of Warwick · GB

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Scott Kopetz · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
p120-catenin sub-family functionsR01GM052112 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI MCCREA, PIERRE D · 1995 to 2010
$3.5M
Non-canonical Wnt signaling and cell motilityR01GM078172 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI HABAS, RAYMOND · 2007 to 2018
$3.1M
MOLECULAR BASIS OF DIFFERENTIATION AND DEVELOPMENTT32HD007325 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI KLEIN, WILLIAM H. · 1986 to 2011
$2.1M
Non-canonical Wnt Signals in Kidney TubulogenesisF32DK082145 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI MILLER, RACHEL KATHERINE · 2008 to 2009
$97k
NCI NIH HHS CA-16672NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016672NICHD NIH HHS HD07325NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD007325NIDDK NIH HHS DK082145NIDDK NIH HHS F32 DK082145NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM052112NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM078172
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Canonical β-catenin-mediated Wnt signaling is essential for the induction of nephron development. Noncanonical Wnt/planar cell polarity (PCP) pathways contribute to processes such as cell polarization and cytoskeletal modulation in several tissues. Although PCP components likely establish the plane of polarization in kidney tubulogenesis, whether PCP effectors directly modulate the actin cytoskeleton in tubulogenesis is unknown. Here, we investigated the roles of Wnt PCP components in cytoskeletal assembly during kidney tubule morphogenesis in Xenopus laevis and zebrafish. We found that during tubulogenesis, the developing pronephric anlagen expresses Daam1 and its interacting Rho-GEF (WGEF), which compose one PCP/noncanonical Wnt pathway branch. Knockdown of Daam1 resulted in reduced expression of late pronephric epithelial markers with no apparent effect upon early markers of patterning and determination. Inhibiting various points in the Daam1 signaling pathway significantly reduced pronephric tubulogenesis. These data indicate that pronephric tubulogenesis requires the Daam1/WGEF/Rho PCP pathway.

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Cell PolarityOrganogenesisAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAnimalsApoptosisCell ProliferationCytoskeletonFemaleGuanine Nucleotide Exchange FactorsKidney TubulesWnt ProteinsXenopus laevisXenopus ProteinsZebrafishZebrafish ProteinsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingDaam1 protein, XenopusGuanine Nucleotide Exchange FactorsWnt ProteinsXenopus ProteinsZebrafish Proteins

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PMID21804089
PMCPMC3171937
OpenAlexW2151034732

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