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Fig. 5. Cooperation of ASPN and IGF is essential for eye development. (A) ASPN activates ERK and AKT. Conditioned media taken from control GFP (lane 1), ASPN (lane 2) or IGF2 (lane 3) expressing cells were applied to HEK 293 cells for 20 min.Western blotting analysis was performed with antibodies for phosphorylated ERK (p-ERK), ERK, phosphorylated AKT (p-AKT) and AKT. (B) ASPN physically interacts with IGF1R. HEK 293 cells were transfected with expression vectors carrying IGF1R (lanes 1,2) and ASPN (lane 2) and co-immunoprecipitation analysis was performed with the IGF1R antibody and detected with the myc antibody. IB, immunoblotting; IP, immunoprecipitation. (C-I) Embryonic eye formation requires both ASPN and IGF signals. (C-G) Embryos were injected with 3 ng β-Galactosidase mRNA (control: C), 1 ng ASPN mRNA (D), 1 ng ASPN+3 ng dnIGFR mRNAs (E), 1 ng IGF2 mRNA+20 ng control-MO (F) or 1 ng IGF2 mRNA+10 ng ASPN-MO (G) into the dorsal blastomere at the 4-cell stage and phenotypes were evaluated at stage 42. Affected areas are indicated with yellow arrowheads. (H,I) The same combination of mRNAs and morpholinos were injected. Animal caps were prepared and analysed at stage 22 for Pax6 and Rx2a expression with qRT-PCR (*P<0.01; Student’s t-test). Error bars represent s.e.m.

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