Somite-specific expression of a novel fibronectin variant FN3 is negatively regulated by SHH |
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Authors: | Chengtian Zhao Yu Zhang Ying Su Anming Meng |
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Institution: | Department of Biological Science and Biotechnology, The Protein Science Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 ,China |
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Abstract: | Fibronectins (FNs) are major extracellular proteins in blood plasma and many tissues of vertebrates, and play important roles in adhesion, migration and differentiation of cells. We have identified a novel variant (FN3) of fibronectin in zebrafish. FN3 mRNA is abundant, as detected by whole-mount in situ hybridization, in the presomitic mesoderm and the newly formed somites, but less abundant in mature somites. Ectopic expression of Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) results in a decrease of FN3 expression, whereas the expression level of FN3 increases in the flh mutants that lack the notochord. Our results suggest that FN3 may be involved in the formation of somites, but during somite differentiation its expression needs to be downregulated by signals derived from the axial tissues. |
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Keywords: | zebrafish fibronectin somite somitogenesis extracellular matrix SHH flh |
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