Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35781329›Full record

ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2022

TWIST1 interacts with β/δ-catenins during neural tube development and regulates fate transition in cranial neural crest cells.

Jessica W Bertol, Shelby Johnston, Rabia Ahmed, Victoria K Xie, Kelsea M Hubka, Lissette Cruz, Larissa Nitschke, Marta Stetsiv, Jeremy P Goering, Paul Nistor and 7 more

Open access · bronzeAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Cross-Modal Denoising and Integration of Spatial Multi-Omics Data with CANDIES.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Loss of Twist1 leads to disruption of ciliary length, endocytic vesicle dynamics, and cell-cell junctions during neural tube formation.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2026
    Article
  7. Article
  8. eLife · 2025
    Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Opposite patterns of association of TWIST1 expression with patient survival in SHH and Group 4 medulloblastoma.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2025
    Article
  13. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
    Article
  14. Review
  15. Article
  16. Review
  17. Neural crest and periderm-specific requirements ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
    Article
  18. A novelFrontiers in genetics · 2024
    Article
  19. Article
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Jessica W BertolCenter for Craniofacial Research, Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77054, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0898-1822
Shelby JohnstonCenter for Craniofacial Research, Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77054, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0218-1445
Rabia AhmedCenter for Craniofacial Research, Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77054, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9384-3407
Victoria K XieCenter for Craniofacial Research, Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77054, USA.
Kelsea M HubkaCenter for Craniofacial Research, Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77054, USA.
Lissette CruzCenter for Craniofacial Research, Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77054, USA.
Larissa NitschkeDepartment of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Marta StetsivDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
Jeremy P GoeringDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
Paul NistorCentre for Regenerative Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Little France Drive, Edinburgh EH16 4UU, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7826-5928
Sally LowellCentre for Regenerative Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Little France Drive, Edinburgh EH16 4UU, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4018-9480
Hanne HoskensDepartment of Electrical Engineering, ESAT/PSI, KU Leuven, Leuven 3001, Belgium.
Peter ClaesDepartment of Electrical Engineering, ESAT/PSI, KU Leuven, Leuven 3001, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-9489-9819
Seth M WeinbergCenter for Craniofacial and Dental Genetics, Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15219.
Irfan SaadiDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
Mary C Farach-CarsonCenter for Craniofacial Research, Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77054, USA.
Walid D FakhouriCenter for Craniofacial Research, Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77054, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2199-3828
International Craniofacial Institute · USUniversity of Kansas Medical Center · USMRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine · GBUniversitair Ziekenhuis Leuven · BEBaylor College of Medicine · USUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Extending the Phenotype of Nonsyndromic Orofacial CleftsR01DE016148 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI MARAZITA, MARY L., WEINBERG, SETH M · 2004 to 2018
$19.7M
The Genetic Architecture of Human Facial MorphologyR01DE027023 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI CLAES, PETER, SHAFFER, JOHN R · 2017 to 2024
$5.2M
3D Analysis of Normal Facial Variation: Data Repository and Genetics (Research)U01DE020078 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI MARAZITA, MARY L., WEINBERG, SETH M · 2009 to 2013
$2.0M
The Role of SPECC1L cytoskeletal protein in craniofacial development and malformationR01DE026172 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI SAADI, IRFAN · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
Super resolution microscope for the imaging core facilityS10OD023625 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI NISHIMUNE, HIROSHI · 2019 to 2019
$987k
NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE016148NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE026172NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE027023NIDCR NIH HHS U01 DE020078Wellcome Trust 220298
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell fate determination is a necessary and tightly regulated process for producing different cell types and structures during development. Cranial neural crest cells (CNCCs) are unique to vertebrate embryos and emerge from the neural plate borders into multiple cell lineages that differentiate into bone, cartilage, neurons and glial cells. We have previously reported that Irf6 genetically interacts with Twist1 during CNCC-derived tissue formation. Here, we have investigated the mechanistic role of Twist1 and Irf6 at early stages of craniofacial development. Our data indicate that TWIST1 is expressed in endocytic vesicles at the apical surface and interacts with β/δ-catenins during neural tube closure, and Irf6 is involved in defining neural fold borders by restricting AP2α expression. Twist1 suppresses Irf6 and other epithelial genes in CNCCs during the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) process and cell migration. Conversely, a loss of Twist1 leads to a sustained expression of epithelial and cell adhesion markers in migratory CNCCs. Disruption of TWIST1 phosphorylation in vivo leads to epidermal blebbing, edema, neural tube defects and CNCC-derived structural abnormalities. Altogether, this study describes a previously uncharacterized function of mammalian Twist1 and Irf6 in the neural tube and CNCCs, and provides new target genes for Twist1 that are involved in cytoskeletal remodeling.

Indexed as

Neural CrestNeural TubeAnimalsCateninsDelta CateninGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalMammalsSkullCateninsDelta CateninCell delaminationCell migrationEpithelial-to-mesenchymal transitionMouse geneticsNeural tube closureNeural tube explants

Identifiers

PMID35781329
PMCPMC9440756
OpenAlexW4283796237

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.