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ArticleeLife2025

A tissue boundary orchestrates the segregation of inner ear sensory organs.

Ziqi Chen, Magdalena Żak, Shuting Xu, Javier de Andrés, Nicolas Daudet

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Article in eLife, 2025. 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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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ziqi Chen *UCL Ear Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Magdalena Żak *UCL Ear Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0888-6822
Shuting XuUCL Ear Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Javier de AndrésUCL Ear Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Nicolas DaudetUCL Ear Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

Funding

Action on Hearing Loss G76Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L003163/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/R000549/1Medical Research Council MR/S003029/1Medical Research Council MR/W005123/1Royal National Institute for Deaf People P27
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The inner ear contains distinct sensory organs, produced sequentially by segregation from a large sensory-competent domain in the developing otic vesicle. To understand the mechanistic basis of this process, we investigated the changes in prosensory cell patterning, proliferation, and character during the segregation of some of the vestibular organs in the mouse and chicken otic vesicle. We discovered a specialised boundary domain, located at the interface of segregating organs. It is composed of prosensory cells that gradually enlarge, elongate, and are ultimately diverted from a prosensory fate. Strikingly, the boundary cells align their apical borders and constrict basally at the interface of cells expressing or not the Lmx1a transcription factor, an orthologue of

Indexed as

Ear, InnerAnimalsChick EmbryoLIM-Homeodomain ProteinsMiceTranscription FactorsLIM-Homeodomain ProteinsTranscription Factorschickendevelopmental biologyinner earLMX1mouseprosensory specificationsensory organ formationtissue boundary

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PMID41211691
PMCPMC12600012

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