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Fox SC, Waskiewicz AJ. Transforming growth factor beta signaling and craniofacial development: modeling human diseases in zebrafish. Front Cell Dev Biol 2024; 12:1338070. [PMID: 38385025 PMCID: PMC10879340 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2024.1338070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2023] [Accepted: 01/18/2024] [Indexed: 02/23/2024] Open
Abstract
Humans and other jawed vertebrates rely heavily on their craniofacial skeleton for eating, breathing, and communicating. As such, it is vital that the elements of the craniofacial skeleton develop properly during embryogenesis to ensure a high quality of life and evolutionary fitness. Indeed, craniofacial abnormalities, including cleft palate and craniosynostosis, represent some of the most common congenital abnormalities in newborns. Like many other organ systems, the development of the craniofacial skeleton is complex, relying on specification and migration of the neural crest, patterning of the pharyngeal arches, and morphogenesis of each skeletal element into its final form. These processes must be carefully coordinated and integrated. One way this is achieved is through the spatial and temporal deployment of cell signaling pathways. Recent studies conducted using the zebrafish model underscore the importance of the Transforming Growth Factor Beta (TGF-β) and Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) pathways in craniofacial development. Although both pathways contain similar components, each pathway results in unique outcomes on a cellular level. In this review, we will cover studies conducted using zebrafish that show the necessity of these pathways in each stage of craniofacial development, starting with the induction of the neural crest, and ending with the morphogenesis of craniofacial elements. We will also cover human skeletal and craniofacial diseases and malformations caused by mutations in the components of these pathways (e.g., cleft palate, craniosynostosis, etc.) and the potential utility of zebrafish in studying the etiology of these diseases. We will also briefly cover the utility of the zebrafish model in joint development and biology and discuss the role of TGF-β/BMP signaling in these processes and the diseases that result from aberrancies in these pathways, including osteoarthritis and multiple synostoses syndrome. Overall, this review will demonstrate the critical roles of TGF-β/BMP signaling in craniofacial development and show the utility of the zebrafish model in development and disease.
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Ishan M, Wang Z, Zhao P, Yao Y, Stice SL, Wells L, Mishina Y, Liu HX. Taste papilla cell differentiation requires the regulation of secretory protein production by ALK3-BMP signaling in the tongue mesenchyme. Development 2023; 150:dev201838. [PMID: 37680190 PMCID: PMC10560570 DOI: 10.1242/dev.201838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2023] [Accepted: 09/01/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023]
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Taste papillae are specialized organs, each of which comprises an epithelial wall hosting taste buds and a core of mesenchymal tissue. In the present study, we report that during early taste papilla development in mouse embryos, bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling mediated by type 1 receptor ALK3 in the tongue mesenchyme is required for epithelial Wnt/β-catenin activity and taste papilla differentiation. Mesenchyme-specific knockout (cKO) of Alk3 using Wnt1-Cre and Sox10-Cre resulted in an absence of taste papillae at E12.0. Biochemical and cell differentiation analyses demonstrated that mesenchymal ALK3-BMP signaling governed the production of previously unappreciated secretory proteins, i.e. it suppressed those that inhibit and facilitated those that promote taste papilla differentiation. Bulk RNA-sequencing analysis revealed many more differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in the tongue epithelium than in the mesenchyme in Alk3 cKO versus control. Moreover, we detected downregulated epithelial Wnt/β-catenin signaling and found that taste papilla development in the Alk3 cKO was rescued by the GSK3β inhibitor LiCl, but not by Wnt3a. Our findings demonstrate for the first time the requirement of tongue mesenchyme in taste papilla cell differentiation.
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- Mohamed Ishan
- Regenerative Bioscience Center, Department of Animal and Dairy Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Regenerative Bioscience Center, Department of Animal and Dairy Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Regenerative Bioscience Center, Department of Animal and Dairy Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Regenerative Bioscience Center, Department of Animal and Dairy Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Regenerative Bioscience Center, Department of Animal and Dairy Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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Ueharu H, Mishina Y. BMP signaling during craniofacial development: new insights into pathological mechanisms leading to craniofacial anomalies. Front Physiol 2023; 14:1170511. [PMID: 37275223 PMCID: PMC10232782 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1170511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/07/2023] Open
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Cranial neural crest cells (NCCs) are the origin of the anterior part of the face and the head. Cranial NCCs are multipotent cells giving rise to bones, cartilage, adipose-tissues in the face, and neural cells, melanocytes, and others. The behavior of cranial NCCs (proliferation, cell death, migration, differentiation, and cell fate specification) are well regulated by several signaling pathways; abnormalities in their behavior are often reported as causative reasons for craniofacial anomalies (CFAs), which occur in 1 in 100 newborns in the United States. Understanding the pathological mechanisms of CFAs would facilitate strategies for identifying, preventing, and treating CFAs. Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling plays a pleiotropic role in many cellular processes during embryonic development. We and others have reported that abnormalities in BMP signaling in cranial NCCs develop CFAs in mice. Abnormal levels of BMP signaling cause miscorrelation with other signaling pathways such as Wnt signaling and FGF signaling, which mutations in the signaling pathways are known to develop CFAs in mice and humans. Recent Genome-Wide Association Studies and exome sequencing demonstrated that some patients with CFAs presented single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), missense mutations, and duplication of genes related to BMP signaling activities, suggesting that defects in abnormal BMP signaling in human embryos develop CFAs. There are still a few cases of BMP-related patients with CFAs. One speculation is that human embryos with mutations in coding regions of BMP-related genes undergo embryonic lethality before developing the craniofacial region as well as mice development; however, no reports are available that show embryonic lethality caused by BMP mutations in humans. In this review, we will summarize the recent advances in the understanding of BMP signaling during craniofacial development in mice and describe how we can translate the knowledge from the transgenic mice to CFAs in humans.
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Ishan M, Wang Z, Zhao P, Yao Y, Stice S, Wells L, Mishina Y, Liu HX. Taste papilla cell differentiation requires tongue mesenchyme via ALK3-BMP signaling to regulate the production of secretory proteins. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.04.03.535414. [PMID: 37066397 PMCID: PMC10103976 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.03.535414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
Taste papillae are specialized organs each of which is comprised of an epithelial wall hosting taste buds and a core of mesenchymal tissue. In the present study, we report that during the early stages of embryonic development, bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling mediated by type 1 receptor ALK3 in the tongue mesenchyme is required for the epithelial Wnt/β-catenin activity and taste papilla cell differentiation. Mesenchyme-specific knockout ( cKO ) of Alk3 using Wnt1-Cre and Sox10-Cre resulted in an absence of taste papillae at E12.0. Biochemical and cell differentiation analyses demonstrated that mesenchymal ALK3-BMP signaling governs the production of previously unappreciated secretory proteins, i.e., suppresses those that inhibiting and facilitates those promoting taste cell differentiation. Bulk RNA-Sequencing analysis revealed many more differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in the tongue epithelium than in the mesenchyme in Alk3 cKO vs control. Moreover, we detected a down-regulated epithelial Wnt/β-catenin signaling, and taste papilla development in the Alk3 cKO was rescued by GSK3β inhibitor LiCl, but not Wnt3a. Our findings demonstrate for the first time the requirement of tongue mesenchyme in taste papilla cell differentiation. Summary statement This is the first set of data to implicate the requirement of tongue mesenchyme in taste papilla cell differentiation.
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Aponte JD, Katz DC, Roth DM, Vidal-García M, Liu W, Andrade F, Roseman CC, Murray SA, Cheverud J, Graf D, Marcucio RS, Hallgrímsson B. Relating multivariate shapes to genescapes using phenotype-biological process associations for craniofacial shape. eLife 2021; 10:68623. [PMID: 34779766 PMCID: PMC8631940 DOI: 10.7554/elife.68623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2021] [Accepted: 11/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Realistic mappings of genes to morphology are inherently multivariate on both sides of the equation. The importance of coordinated gene effects on morphological phenotypes is clear from the intertwining of gene actions in signaling pathways, gene regulatory networks, and developmental processes underlying the development of shape and size. Yet, current approaches tend to focus on identifying and localizing the effects of individual genes and rarely leverage the information content of high-dimensional phenotypes. Here, we explicitly model the joint effects of biologically coherent collections of genes on a multivariate trait – craniofacial shape – in a sample of n = 1145 mice from the Diversity Outbred (DO) experimental line. We use biological process Gene Ontology (GO) annotations to select skeletal and facial development gene sets and solve for the axis of shape variation that maximally covaries with gene set marker variation. We use our process-centered, multivariate genotype-phenotype (process MGP) approach to determine the overall contributions to craniofacial variation of genes involved in relevant processes and how variation in different processes corresponds to multivariate axes of shape variation. Further, we compare the directions of effect in phenotype space of mutations to the primary axis of shape variation associated with broader pathways within which they are thought to function. Finally, we leverage the relationship between mutational and pathway-level effects to predict phenotypic effects beyond craniofacial shape in specific mutants. We also introduce an online application that provides users the means to customize their own process-centered craniofacial shape analyses in the DO. The process-centered approach is generally applicable to any continuously varying phenotype and thus has wide-reaching implications for complex trait genetics.
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- Jose D Aponte
- Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute and McCaig Bone and Joint Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute and McCaig Bone and Joint Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute and McCaig Bone and Joint Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute and McCaig Bone and Joint Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, United States
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, United States
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, United States
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- School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.,Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute and McCaig Bone and Joint Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States
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Yang J, Toda Nakamura M, Hallett SA, Ueharu H, Zhang H, Kelley K, Fukuda T, Komatsu Y, Mishina Y. Generation of a new mouse line with conditionally activated signaling through the BMP receptor, ACVR1: A tool to characterize pleiotropic roles of BMP functions. Genesis 2021; 59:e23419. [PMID: 33851764 DOI: 10.1002/dvg.23419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2021] [Revised: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 04/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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BMP signaling plays pleiotropic roles in various tissues during embryogenesis and after birth. We have previously generated a constitutively activated Acvr1(ca-Acvr1) transgenic mouse line (line L35) through pronuclei injection to investigate impacts of enhanced BMP signaling in a tissue specific manner. However, line L35 shows a restricted expression pattern of the transgene. Here, we generated another ca-Acvr1 transgenic line, line A11, using embryonic stem (ES) transgenesis. The generated line A11 shows distinctive phenotypes from line L35, along with very limited expression levels of the transgene. When the transgene is activated in the neural crest cells in a Cre-dependent manner, line A11 exhibits cleft palate and shorter jaws, while line L35 develops ectopic cartilages and highly hypomorphic facial structures. When activated in limb buds, line A11 develops organized but smaller limb skeletal structures, while line L35 forms disorganized limbs with little mineralization. Additionally, no heterotopic ossification (HO) is identified in line A11 when bred with NFATc1-Cre mice even after induction of tissue injury, which is an established protocol for HO for line L35. Therefore, the newly generated conditional ca-Acvr1 mouse line A11 provides an additional resource to dissect highly context dependent functions of BMP signaling in development and disease.
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- Jingwen Yang
- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology & Key Laboratory for Oral Biomedicine of Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430079, China.,Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, MI, USA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, MI, USA.,Department of Oral Growth and Development, Fukuoka Dental College, Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, MI, USA.,Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, MI, USA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, MI, USA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, MI, USA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, MI, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, John P and Katherine G McGovern Medical School Huston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, MI, USA
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Qiao W, Huang P, Wang X, Meng L. Susceptibility to DNA damage caused by abrogation of Rad54 homolog B: A putative mechanism for chemically induced cleft palate. Toxicology 2021; 456:152772. [PMID: 33823233 DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2021.152772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2020] [Revised: 03/25/2021] [Accepted: 03/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
Exposure to environmental toxicants such as all-trans retinoic acid (atRA) and 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) may cause cleft palate (CP), which process is related to DNA damage. Rad54B, an important DNA damage repaired protein, has been proved to be associated with non-syndromic cleft lip with palate (NSCLP). In the present study, we sought to clarify the role of Rad54B in palatal development and environment-induced CP. atRA (100 mg/kg) and TCDD (40 μg/kg) were used to induce CP in mice (C57BL/6 J mice). In this study, mouse embryonic heads were collected on embryonic day (E) 13.5∼16.5. The expression level of DNA repair protein Rad54 homolog B (Rad54B) was significantly decreased while those of the DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) marker γ-H2A.X, apoptosis marker caspase-3 and p53 were significantly increased in the palatal shelves upon exposure to atRA and TCDD relative to the control. Primary mouse embryonic palatal mesenchymal cells (MEPMs) were cultured and transfected with siRNA or adenovirus in vitro to knock down or increase the level of Rad54B. Rad54B knockdown resulted in increased cellular S-phase arrest and apoptosis as well as decreased cell proliferation. Rad54B overexpression also increased apoptosis and reduced cell proliferation. Western blotting was used to detect the level of γ-H2A.X in transfected cells stimulated with etoposide (ETO, a DSBs inducer), and after 5 μM ETO stimulation of transfected MEPMs, the expression of γ-H2A.X was increased in Rad54B-knockdown cells. The expression of Mdm2, Mdmx and p53 with changes in Rad54B was also detected and coimmunoprecipitation was performed to analyze the combination of Mdm2 and p53 when Rad54B was changed in MEPMs. Knockdown of Rad54B inhibited the expression of Mdm2 and Mdmx, while the level of p53 increased. The coimmunoprecipitation results showed a decreased combination of Mdm2 and p53 when Rad54B was knocked down. Therefore, Rad54B can regulate the cell cycle, proliferation, and apoptosis of MEPMs. The loss of Rad54B increased the sensitivity of MEPMs to DSBs inducers, promoted apoptosis, and suppressed the proliferation of MEPMs by inhibiting the degradation of p53. Taken together, these findings suggest that Rad54B may play a key regulatory role in environment-induced CP.
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- Weiwei Qiao
- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) & Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China.
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Yang J, Kitami M, Pan H, Nakamura MT, Zhang H, Liu F, Zhu L, Komatsu Y, Mishina Y. Augmented BMP signaling commits cranial neural crest cells to a chondrogenic fate by suppressing autophagic β-catenin degradation. Sci Signal 2021; 14:14/665/eaaz9368. [PMID: 33436499 DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.aaz9368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
Cranial neural crest cells (CNCCs) are a population of multipotent stem cells that give rise to craniofacial bone and cartilage during development. Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling and autophagy have been individually implicated in stem cell homeostasis. Mutations that cause constitutive activation of the BMP type I receptor ACVR1 cause the congenital disorder fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), which is characterized by ectopic cartilage and bone in connective tissues in the trunk and sometimes includes ectopic craniofacial bones. Here, we showed that enhanced BMP signaling through the constitutively activated ACVR1 (ca-ACVR1) in CNCCs in mice induced ectopic cartilage formation in the craniofacial region through an autophagy-dependent mechanism. Enhanced BMP signaling suppressed autophagy by activating mTORC1, thus blocking the autophagic degradation of β-catenin, which, in turn, caused CNCCs to adopt a chondrogenic identity. Transient blockade of mTORC1, reactivation of autophagy, or suppression of Wnt-β-catenin signaling reduced ectopic cartilages in ca-Acvr1 mutants. Our results suggest that BMP signaling and autophagy coordinately regulate β-catenin activity to direct the fate of CNCCs during craniofacial development. These findings may also explain why some patients with FOP develop ectopic bones through endochondral ossification in craniofacial regions.
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- Jingwen Yang
- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) and Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China.,Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.,Graduate Program in Genes and Development, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology (Hubei-MOST) and Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China.,Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA. .,Graduate Program in Genes and Development, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Omi M, Kulkarni AK, Raichur A, Fox M, Uptergrove A, Zhang H, Mishina Y. BMP-Smad Signaling Regulates Postnatal Crown Dentinogenesis in Mouse Molar. JBMR Plus 2020; 4:e10249. [PMID: 32149267 PMCID: PMC7017888 DOI: 10.1002/jbm4.10249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2019] [Revised: 10/14/2019] [Accepted: 10/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Dentinogenesis, a formation of dentin by odontoblasts, is an essential process during tooth development. Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are one of the most crucial growth factors that contribute to dentin formation. However, it is still unclear how BMP signaling pathways regulate postnatal crown and root dentinogenesis. BMPs transduce signals through canonical Smad and non-Smad signaling pathways including p38 and ERK signaling pathways. To investigate the roles of Smad and non-Smad signaling pathways in dentinogenesis, we conditionally deleted Bmpr1a, which encodes the type 1A receptor for BMPs, to remove both Smad and non-Smad pathways in Osterix-expressing cells. We also expressed a constitutively activated form of Bmpr1a (caBmpr1a) to increase Smad1/5/9 signaling activity without altered non-Smad activity in odontoblasts. To understand the function of BMP signaling during postnatal dentin formation, Cre activity was induced at the day of birth. Our results showed that loss of BmpR1A in odontoblasts resulted in impaired dentin formation and short molar roots at postnatal day 21. Bmpr1a cKO mice displayed a reduction of dentin matrix production compared to controls associated with increased cell proliferation and reduced Osx and Dspp expression. In contrast, caBmpr1a mutant mice that show increased Smad1/5/9 signaling activity resulted in no overt tooth phenotype. To further dissect the functions of each signaling activity, we generated Bmpr1a cKO mice also expressing caBmpr1a to restore only Smad1/5/9 signaling activity. Restoring Smad activity in the compound mutant mice rescued impaired crown dentin formation in the Bmpr1a cKO mice; however, impaired root dentin formation and short roots were not changed. These results suggest that BMP-Smad signaling in odontoblasts is responsible for crown dentin formation, while non-Smad signaling may play a major role in root dentin formation and elongation. © 2019 The Authors. JBMR Plus published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. © 2019 The Authors. JBMR Plus published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
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- Maiko Omi
- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences and ProsthodonticsUniversity of Michigan School of DentistryAnn ArborMIUSA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences and ProsthodonticsUniversity of Michigan School of DentistryAnn ArborMIUSA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences and ProsthodonticsUniversity of Michigan School of DentistryAnn ArborMIUSA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences and ProsthodonticsUniversity of Michigan School of DentistryAnn ArborMIUSA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences and ProsthodonticsUniversity of Michigan School of DentistryAnn ArborMIUSA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences and ProsthodonticsUniversity of Michigan School of DentistryAnn ArborMIUSA
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences and ProsthodonticsUniversity of Michigan School of DentistryAnn ArborMIUSA
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Russell BE, Rigueur D, Weaver KN, Sund K, Basil JS, Hufnagel RB, Prows CA, Oestreich A, Al-Gazali L, Hopkin RJ, Saal HM, Lyons K, Dauber A. Homozygous missense variant in BMPR1A resulting in BMPR signaling disruption and syndromic features. Mol Genet Genomic Med 2019; 7:e969. [PMID: 31493347 PMCID: PMC6825850 DOI: 10.1002/mgg3.969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2019] [Revised: 07/12/2019] [Accepted: 08/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Background The bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) pathway is known to play an imperative role in bone, cartilage, and cardiac tissue formation. Truncating, heterozygous variants, and deletions of one of the essential receptors in this pathway, Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptor Type1A (BMPR1A), have been associated with autosomal dominant juvenile polyposis. Heterozygous deletions have also been associated with cardiac and minor skeletal anomalies. Populations with atrioventricular septal defects are enriched for rare missense BMPR1A variants. Methods We report on a patient with a homozygous missense variant in BMPR1A causing skeletal abnormalities, growth failure a large atrial septal defect, severe subglottic stenosis, laryngomalacia, facial dysmorphisms, and developmental delays. Results Functional analysis of this variant shows increased chondrocyte death for cells with the mutated receptor, increased phosphorylated R‐Smads1/5/8, and loss of Sox9 expression mediated by decreased phosphorylation of p38. Conclusion This homozygous missense variant in BMPR1A appears to cause a distinct clinical phenotype.
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- Bianca E Russell
- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.,Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Kulkarni AK, Louie KW, Yatabe M, Ruellas ACDO, Mochida Y, Cevidanes LHS, Mishina Y, Zhang H. A Ciliary Protein EVC2/LIMBIN Plays a Critical Role in the Skull Base for Mid-Facial Development. Front Physiol 2018; 9:1484. [PMID: 30410447 PMCID: PMC6210651 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2018] [Accepted: 10/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Ellis-van Creveld (EvC) syndrome is an autosomal recessive chondrodysplastic disorder. Affected patients present a wide spectrum of symptoms including short stature, postaxial polydactyly, and dental abnormalities. We previously disrupted Evc2, one of the causative genes for EvC syndrome, in mice using a neural crest-specific, Cre-mediated approach (i.e., P0-Cre, referred to as Evc2 P0 mutants). Despite the fact that P0-Cre predominantly targets the mid-facial region, we reported that many mid-facial defects identified in Evc2 global mutants are not present in Evc2 P0 mutants at postnatal day 8 (P8). In the current study, we used multiple Cre lines (P0-Cre and Wnt1-Cre, respectively), to specifically delete Evc2 in neural crest-derived tissues and compared the resulting mid-facial defects at multiple time points (P8 and P28, respectively). While both Cre lines indistinguishably targeted the mid-facial region, they differentially targeted the anterior portion of the skull base. By comprehensively analyzing the shapes of conditional mutant skulls, we detected differentially affected mid-facial defects in Evc2 P0 mutants and Evc2 Wnt1 mutants. Micro-CT analysis of the skull base further revealed that the Evc2 mutation leads to a differentially affected skull base, caused by premature closure of the intersphenoid synchondrosis (presphenoidal synchondrosis), which limited the elongation of the anterior skull base during the postnatal development of the skull. Given the importance of the skull base in mid-facial bone development, our results suggest that loss of function of Evc2 within the skull base secondarily leads to many aspects of the mid-facial defects developed by the EvC syndrome.
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Affiliation(s)
- Anshul K Kulkarni
- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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