Xenopus Cdc42 regulates convergent extension movements during gastrulation through Wnt/Ca2+ signaling pathway

Developmental Biology

Volumn 244, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 342-357

  Choi, Sun Cheol ^a   Han, Jin Kwan ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cdc42; Cell adhesion; Gastrulation; Mfz 3; PKC; Wnt Ca2+ pathway; Xenopus; XWnt 5a

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIVIN; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN KINASE C ACTIVATOR; PROTEIN MFZ 3; PROTEIN XWNT 5A; RHO FACTOR; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ADHESION; CELL CYCLE; CELL MOTION; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GASTRULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROECTODERM; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SYNTHESIS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037090909     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2002.0602     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. The cadherin superfamily: Diversity in form and function
2. The Rho GTPase and a putative RhoGEF mediate a signaling pathway for the cell shape changes in Drosophila gastrulation
3. Rho GTPases, and their effector proteins
4. Dishevelled activates JNK and discriminates between JNK pathways in planar polarity and wingless signaling
5. Cerberus is a head-inducing secreted factor expressed in the anterior endoderm of Spemann's organizer
6. Regulation of C-Cadherin function during activin induced morphogenesis of Xenopus animal caps
7. Wnt signaling: A common theme in animal development
8. Signal transduction by the Wnt family of ligands
9. Maximal migration of human smooth muscle cells on fibronentin and type IV collagen occurs at an intermediate attachment strength
10. Role of frizzled 7 in the regulation of convergent extension movements during gastrulation in Xenopus Iaevis
11. A requirement for Rho and Cdc42 during cytokinesis in Xenopus embryos
12. Identification of distinct classes and functional domains of Wnts through expression of wild-type and chimeric proteins in Xenopus embryos
13. Multiple roles for Cdc42 in cell regulation
14. Antagonizing the Spemann organizer: Role of the homeobox gene Xvent-1
15. Mesoderm inducing factors: A small class of molecules
16. Wnt/frizzled activation of Rho regulates vertebrate gastrulation and requires a novel formin homology protein Daam1
17. In situ hybridization: An improved whole-mount method for Xenopus embryos
18. Silberblick/Wnt11 mediates convergent extension movements during zebrafish gastrulation
19. TGFβ signals and a prepattern in Xenopus laevis endodermal development
20. Adhesion in cell migration
21. Regulation of cadherin-mediated cell-cell adhesion by the Rho family GTPases
22. Early embryonic development of Xenopus laevis
23. The patterning and functioning of protrusive activity during convergence and extension of the Xenopus organizer
24. bFGF as a possible morphogen for the anteroposterior axis of the central nervous system in Xenopus
25. The involvement of cAMP signaling pathway in axis specification in Xenopus embryos
26. A single frizzled protein has a dual function in tissue polarity
27. 2+ pathway a new vertebrate Wnt signaling pathway takes shape
28. 2+/Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II is stimulated by Wnt and Frizzled homologs and promotes ventral cell fates in Xenopus
29. 2+ signaling
30. Neural induction by the secreted polypeptide noggin
31. A role for cytoplasmic determinants in mesoderm patterning: Cell-autonomous activation of goosecoid and Xwnt-8 along the dorsoventral axis of early Xenopus embryos
32. Expression cloning of Siamois, a Xenopus homeobox gene expressed in dorsal-vegetal cells of blastulae and able to induce a complete secondary axis
33. Dishevelled proteins lead to two signaling pathways
34. Xenopus frizzled7 can act in canonical and non-canonical Wnt signaling pathways: Implications on early patterning and morphogenesis
35. 2+ pathways
36. From cortical rotation to organizer gene expression: Toward a molecular explanation of axis specification in Xenopus
37. Distinct domains of mouse dishevelled are responsible for the c-Jun N-terminal kinase/stress-activated protein kinase activation and the axis formation in vertebrates
38. Dorsoventral patterning in Xenopus: Inhibition of ventral signals by direct binding of chordin to BMP-4
39. Rho GTPases. Signaling, migration, and invasion
40. Protein kinase C is differentially stimulated by Wnt and Frizzled homologs in a G-protein-dependent manner
41. 2+ signaling by Wnt-SA
42. Interaction of Wnt and a Frizzled homologue triggers G-protein-linked phosphatidyl inositol signaling
43. Expression of a Xenopus homolog of Brachyury (T) is an immediate-early response to mesoderm induction
44. A nodal-related gene defines a physical and functional domain within the Spemann organizer
45. The role of RhoA in tissue polarity and Frizzled signaling
46. Gastrulation movements provide an early marker of mesoderm induction in Xenopus Iaevis
47. Xwnt11 is a target of Xenopus Brachyury: Regulation of gastrulation movements via Dishevelled, but not through the canonical Wnt pathway
48. Activities of the Wnt-I class of secreted signaling factors are antagonized by the Wnt-5A class and by a dominant negative cadherin in early Xenopus development
49. Dishevelled controls cell polarity during Xenopus gastrulation
50. Xenopus Dishevelled signaling regulates both neural and mesodermal convergent extension: Parallel forces elongating the body axis
51. Differential transformation of mammary epithelial cells by Wnt genes
52. Involvement of the small GTPases XRhoA and XRndl in cell adhesion and head formation in early Xenopus development
53. JNK functions in the non-canonical Wnt pathway to regulate convergent extension movements in vertebrates