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XB-ART-55171
Elife 2018 Aug 06;7. doi: 10.7554/eLife.36456.
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Spatial and temporal analysis of PCP protein dynamics during neural tube closure.

Butler MT , Wallingford JB .


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Planar cell polarity (PCP) controls convergent extension and axis elongation in all vertebrates. Although asymmetric localization of PCP proteins is central to their function, we understand little about PCP protein localization during convergent extension. Here, we use quantitative live imaging to simultaneously monitor cell intercalation behaviors and PCP protein dynamics in the Xenopus laevis neural plate epithelium. We observed asymmetric enrichment of PCP proteins, but more interestingly, we observed tight correlation of PCP protein enrichment with actomyosin-driven contractile behavior of cell-cell junctions. Moreover, we found that the turnover rates of junctional PCP proteins also correlated with the contractile behavior of individual junctions. All these dynamic relationships were disrupted when PCP signaling was manipulated. Together, these results provide a dynamic and quantitative view of PCP protein localization during convergent extension and suggest a complex and intimate link between the dynamic localization of core PCP proteins, actomyosin assembly, and polarized junction shrinking during cell intercalation in the closing vertebrate neural tube.

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Species referenced: Xenopus laevis
Genes referenced: ctrl dnai1 dvl1 dvl2 h2bc21 myl9 prickle2 prok2 utrn vangl2
GO keywords: cell-cell junction [+]
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References [+] :
Aigouy, Cell flow reorients the axis of planar polarity in the wing epithelium of Drosophila. 2010, Pubmed