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ArticleNature communications2016

Dchs1-Fat4 regulation of polarized cell behaviours during skeletal morphogenesis.

Yaopan Mao, Anna Kuta, Ivan Crespo-Enriquez, Danielle Whiting, Tina Martin, Joanna Mulvaney, Kenneth D Irvine, Philippa Francis-West

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Article in Nature communications, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Yaopan MaoHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Waksman Institute and Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
Anna KutaDepartment of Craniofacial Development and Stem Cell Biology, King's College London, Dental Institute, London SE1 9RT, UK.
Ivan Crespo-EnriquezDepartment of Craniofacial Development and Stem Cell Biology, King's College London, Dental Institute, London SE1 9RT, UK.
Danielle WhitingDepartment of Craniofacial Development and Stem Cell Biology, King's College London, Dental Institute, London SE1 9RT, UK.
Tina MartinDepartment of Craniofacial Development and Stem Cell Biology, King's College London, Dental Institute, London SE1 9RT, UK.
Joanna MulvaneyDepartment of Craniofacial Development and Stem Cell Biology, King's College London, Dental Institute, London SE1 9RT, UK.
Kenneth D IrvineHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Waksman Institute and Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
Philippa Francis-WestDepartment of Craniofacial Development and Stem Cell Biology, King's College London, Dental Institute, London SE1 9RT, UK.
King's College London · GBHoward Hughes Medical Institute · USRutgers, The State University of New Jersey · US

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/G021074/1Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Skeletal shape varies widely across species as adaptation to specialized modes of feeding and locomotion, but how skeletal shape is established is unknown. An example of extreme diversity in the shape of a skeletal structure can be seen in the sternum, which varies considerably across species. Here we show that the Dchs1-Fat4 planar cell polarity pathway controls cell orientation in the early skeletal condensation to define the shape and relative dimensions of the mouse sternum. These changes fit a model of cell intercalation along differential Dchs1-Fat4 activity that drives a simultaneous narrowing, thickening and elongation of the sternum. Our results identify the regulation of cellular polarity within the early pre-chondrogenic mesenchyme, when skeletal shape is established, and provide the first demonstration that Fat4 and Dchs1 establish polarized cell behaviour intrinsically within the mesenchyme. Our data also reveal the first indication that cell intercalation processes occur during ventral body wall elongation and closure.

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Cell PolarityAnimalsBone and BonesCadherinsMesodermMiceMice, KnockoutMorphogenesisSignal TransductionSternumCadherinsDchs1 protein, mouseFat4 protein, mouse

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PMID27145737
PMCPMC4858749
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