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ArticleDevelopmental biology2018

Cell cycle-related kinase regulates mammalian eye development through positive and negative regulation of the Hedgehog pathway.

Floria I Lupu, Jacob B Burnett, Jonathan T Eggenschwiler

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Article in Developmental biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Floria I LupuDepartment of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
Jacob B BurnettDepartment of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
Jonathan T EggenschwilerDepartment of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. Electronic address: jeggensc@uga.edu.
University of Georgia · US

Funding

T32 Predoctoral training grant in geneticsT32GM007103 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA (UGA) · PI DYER, KELLY A · 1985 to 2021
$5.9M
Genomic Imprinting and Embryonic DevelopmentR01HD050760 · NICHD · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON · PI JACKSON-GRUSBY, LAURIE L · 2005 to 2009
$2.0M
Hedgehog signaling and intracellular transportR01HD050761 · NICHD · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI EGGENSCHWILER, JONATHAN T · 2005 to 2009
$1.6M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD050760NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD050761NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007103
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell cycle-related kinase (CCRK) is a conserved regulator of ciliogenesis whose loss in mice leads to a wide range of developmental defects, including exencephaly, preaxial polydactyly, skeletal abnormalities, and microphthalmia. Here, we investigate the role of CCRK in mouse eye development. Ccrk mutants show dramatic patterning defects, with an expansion of the optic stalk domain into the optic cup, as well as an expansion of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) into neural retina (NR) territory. In addition, Ccrk mutants display a shortened optic stalk. These defects are associated with bimodal changes in Hedgehog (Hh) pathway activity within the eye, including the loss of proximal, high level responses but a gain in distal, low level responses. We simultaneously removed the Hh activator GLI2 in Ccrk mutants (Ccrk-/-;Gli2-/-), which resulted in rescue of optic cup patterning and exacerbation of optic stalk length defects. Next, we disrupted the Hh pathway antagonist GLI3 in mutants lacking CCRK (Ccrk-/-;Gli3-/-), which lead to even greater expansion of the RPE markers into the NR domain and a complete loss of NR specification within the optic cup. These results indicate that CCRK functions in eye development by both positively and negatively regulating the Hh pathway, and they reveal distinct requirements for Hh signaling in patterning and morphogenesis of the eyes.

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AnimalsCyclin-Dependent Kinase-Activating KinaseCyclin-Dependent KinasesEmbryo, MammalianEyeFemaleHedgehog ProteinsMaleMiceMice, Mutant StrainsOrganogenesisSignal TransductionZinc Finger Protein Gli2CCRK protein, mouseCyclin-Dependent Kinase-Activating KinaseCyclin-Dependent KinasesGli2 protein, mouseHedgehog ProteinsZinc Finger Protein Gli2CiliogenesisGLI2GLI3Neural retinaOptic stalkRetinal pigment epithelium

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PMID29166577
PMCPMC6563835
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