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Title: A Tgfbr1/Snai1-dependent developmental module at the core of vertebrate axial elongation
Author: Dias, André
Lozovska, Anastasiia
Wymeersch, Filip J.
Nóvoa, Ana
Binagui-Casas, Anahi
Sobral, Daniel
Martins, Gabriel G.
Wilson, Valerie
Mallo, Moises
Keywords: Neuroscience(all)
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
Immunology and Microbiology(all)
Issue Date: Jun-2020
Citation: Dias, A., Lozovska, A., Wymeersch, F. J., Nóvoa, A., Binagui-Casas, A., Sobral, D., Martins, G. G., Wilson, V., & Mallo, M. (2020). A Tgfbr1/Snai1-dependent developmental module at the core of vertebrate axial elongation. eLife, 9, 1-28. Article e56615. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.56615
Abstract: Formation of the vertebrate postcranial body axis follows two sequential but distinct phases. The first phase generates pre-sacral structures (the so-called primary body) through the activity of the primitive streak on axial progenitors within the epiblast. The embryo then switches to generate the secondary body (post-sacral structures), which depends on axial progenitors in the tail bud. Here we show that the mammalian tail bud is generated through an independent functional developmental module, concurrent but functionally different from that generating the primary body. This module is triggered by convergent Tgfbr1 and Snai1 activities that promote an incomplete epithelial to mesenchymal transition on a subset of epiblast axial progenitors. This EMT is functionally different from that coordinated by the primitive streak, as it does not lead to mesodermal differentiation but brings axial progenitors into a transitory state, keeping their progenitor activity to drive further axial body extension.
Description: LISBOA-01?0145-FEDER-030254 SCML-MC-60-2014 LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-022170 PD/BD/128426/2017 PD/BD/128437/2017 MR/S008799/1 MR/ K011200/1 DEV-170806
Peer review: yes
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/120727
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.56615
ISSN: 2050-084X
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