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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2014

Partial interchangeability of Fz3 and Fz6 in tissue polarity signaling for epithelial orientation and axon growth and guidance.

Zhong L Hua, Hao Chang, Yanshu Wang, Philip M Smallwood, Jeremy Nathans

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhong L HuaDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Hao ChangDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Yanshu WangDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Philip M SmallwoodDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Jeremy NathansDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA jnathans@jhmi.edu.
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In mammals, a set of anatomically diverse polarity processes - including axon growth and guidance, hair follicle orientation, and stereociliary bundle orientation in inner ear sensory hair cells - appear to be mechanistically related, as judged by their dependence on vertebrate homologues of core tissue polarity/planar cell polarity (PCP) genes in Drosophila. To explore more deeply the mechanistic similarities between different polarity processes, we have determined the extent to which frizzled 3 (Fz3) can rescue the hair follicle and Merkel cell polarity defects in frizzled 6-null (Fz6(-/-)) mice, and, reciprocally, the extent to which Fz6 can rescue the axon growth and guidance defects in Fz3(-/-) mice. These experiments reveal full rescue of the Fz6(-/-) phenotype by Fz3 and partial rescue of the Fz3(-/-) phenotype by Fz6, implying that these two proteins are likely to act in a conserved manner in these two contexts. Stimulated by these observations, we searched for additional anatomical structures that exhibit macroscopic polarity and that might plausibly use Fz3 and/or Fz6 signaling. This search has revealed a hitherto unappreciated pattern of papillae on the dorsal surface of the tongue that depends, at least in part, on redundant signaling by Fz3 and Fz6. Taken together, these experiments provide compelling evidence for a close mechanistic relationship between multiple anatomically diverse polarity processes.

Indexed as

Cell PolarityAllelesAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsAxonsBrainCell ProliferationEpithelial CellsFrizzled ReceptorsHair FollicleMiceMice, TransgenicMolecular Sequence DataPhenotypePhylogenySequence Homology, Amino AcidFrizzled ReceptorsFzd3 protein, mouseFzd6 protein, mouseBrainHair follicleMousePlanar cell polaritySkinTongue

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PMID25294940
PMCPMC4197693
OpenAlexW2144979521

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