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ArticleDevelopment genes and evolution2018

Axin2 overexpression promotes the early epithelial disintegration and fusion of facial prominences during avian lip development.

Hye-Jin Tak, Zhengguo Piao, Hak-Jin Kim, Sang-Hwy Lee

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Article in Development genes and evolution, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Hye-Jin TakOral Science Research Center, College of Dentistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
Zhengguo PiaoDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Stomatology Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou City, China.
Hak-Jin KimDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, South Korea.
Sang-Hwy LeeOral Science Research Center, College of Dentistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. sanghwy@yuhs.ac.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9438-2489
Yonsei University · KRStomatology Hospital · CN

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2017R1A2B4005319
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The epithelial disintegration and the mesenchymal bridging are critical steps in the fusion of facial prominences during the upper lip development. These processes of epithelial-mesenchymal transition and programmed cell death are mainly influenced by Wnt signals. Axis inhibition protein2 (Axin2), a major component of the Wnt pathway, has been reported to be involved in lip development and cleft pathogenesis. We wanted to study the involvement of Axin2 in the lip development, especially during the epithelial disintegration of facial prominences. Our results show that Axin2 was expressed mainly in the epithelium of facial prominences and decreased when the prominences were about to contact each other between Hamburger-Hamilton stages 27 and 28 of chicken embryos. The epithelial integrity was destructed or kept intact by the local gain or loss of Axin2 expression, resulting in morphological changes in the facial processes and their skeletal derivatives including the maxilla, nasal, premaxilla bone, and their junctions without cleft formation. These changes were related to expression changes in nuclear β-catenin, pGSK3β, Slug, Smad3, E-cadherin, and p63. All these data indicate that Axin2 participates in the regulation of epithelial integrity and fusion by promoting epithelial disassociation, basement membrane breakdown, and seam loss during the fusion of facial prominences in lip development.

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Gene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalMorphogenesisAnimalsAvian ProteinsAxin ProteinBeakCell DeathChick EmbryoChickensAvian ProteinsAxin ProteinAxin2DevelopmentEpithelial-mesenchymal transitionLipWnt

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