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Onuma TA, Nishida H. Developmental biology of the larvacean Oikopleura dioica: Genome resources, functional screening, and imaging. Dev Growth Differ 2021; 64:67-82. [PMID: 34964127 DOI: 10.1111/dgd.12769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2021] [Revised: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
Abstract
The larvacean Oikopleura dioica is a cosmopolitan planktonic chordate and is closely related to vertebrates. It is characterized by a tadpole-shaped morphology with notochord flanked by muscle in the tail and brain on the dorsal side, a short life cycle of five days, a compact genome of approximately 56 Mb, a simple and transparent body with a small number of cells (~4000 in functional juveniles), invariant embryonic cell lineages, and fast development that ensures complete morphogenesis and organ formation 10 h after fertilization. With these features, this marine chordate is a promising and advantageous animal model in which genetic manipulation is feasible. In this review, we introduce relevant resources and modern techniques that have been developed: (1) Genome and transcriptomes. Oikopleura dioica has the smallest genome among non-parasitic metazoans. Its genome databases have been generated using three geographically distant O. dioica populations, and several intra-species sequence differences are becoming evident; (2) Functional genetic knockdown techniques. Comprehensive screening of genes is feasible using ovarian microinjection and double-strand DNA-induced gene knockdown; and (3) Live imaging of embryos and larvae. Application of these techniques has uncovered novel aspects of development, including meiotic cell arrest, left-right patterning, epidermal cell patterning, and mouth formation involving the connection of ectoderm and endoderm sheets. Oikopleura dioca has become very useful for developmental and evolutionary studies in chordates.
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Affiliation(s)
- Takeshi A Onuma
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.,Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan
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Godard BG, Dumollard R, Heisenberg CP, McDougall A. Combined effect of cell geometry and polarity domains determines the orientation of unequal division. eLife 2021; 10:75639. [PMID: 34889186 PMCID: PMC8691831 DOI: 10.7554/elife.75639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cell division orientation is thought to result from a competition between cell geometry and polarity domains controlling the position of the mitotic spindle during mitosis. Depending on the level of cell shape anisotropy or the strength of the polarity domain, one dominates the other and determines the orientation of the spindle. Whether and how such competition is also at work to determine unequal cell division (UCD), producing daughter cells of different size, remains unclear. Here, we show that cell geometry and polarity domains cooperate, rather than compete, in positioning the cleavage plane during UCDs in early ascidian embryos. We found that the UCDs and their orientation at the ascidian third cleavage rely on the spindle tilting in an anisotropic cell shape, and cortical polarity domains exerting different effects on spindle astral microtubules. By systematically varying mitotic cell shape, we could modulate the effect of attractive and repulsive polarity domains and consequently generate predicted daughter cell size asymmetries and position. We therefore propose that the spindle position during UCD is set by the combined activities of cell geometry and polarity domains, where cell geometry modulates the effect of cortical polarity domain(s).
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- Benoit G Godard
- Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement de Villefranche-sur-mer, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche-sur-mer, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Villefranche sur Mer, France.,Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement de Villefranche-sur-mer, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche-sur-mer, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Villefranche sur Mer, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement de Villefranche-sur-mer, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche-sur-mer, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Villefranche sur Mer, France
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Ishii H, Tani T. Dynamic organization of cortical actin filaments during the ooplasmic segregation of ascidian Ciona eggs. Mol Biol Cell 2021; 32:274-288. [PMID: 33296225 PMCID: PMC8098833 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e20-01-0083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2020] [Revised: 11/24/2020] [Accepted: 12/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Spatial reorganization of cytoplasm in zygotic cells is critically important for establishing the body plans of many animal species. In ascidian zygotes, maternal determinants (mRNAs) are first transported to the vegetal pole a few minutes after fertilization and then to the future posterior side of the zygotes in a later phase of cytoplasmic reorganization, before the first cell division. Here, by using a novel fluorescence polarization microscope that reports the position and the orientation of fluorescently labeled proteins in living cells, we mapped the local alignments and the time-dependent changes of cortical actin networks in Ciona eggs. The initial cytoplasmic reorganization started with the contraction of vegetal hemisphere approximately 20 s after the fertilization-induced [Ca2+] increase. Timing of the vegetal contraction was consistent with the emergence of highly aligned actin filaments at the cell cortex of the vegetal hemisphere, which ran perpendicular to the animal-vegetal axis. We propose that the cytoplasmic reorganization is initiated by the local contraction of laterally aligned cortical actomyosin in the vegetal hemisphere, which in turn generates the directional movement of cytoplasm within the whole egg.
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- Hirokazu Ishii
- Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543
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- Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543
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Luthria G, Li R, Wang S, Prytyskach M, Kohler RH, Lauffenburger DA, Mitchison TJ, Weissleder R, Miller MA. In vivo microscopy reveals macrophage polarization locally promotes coherent microtubule dynamics in migrating cancer cells. Nat Commun 2020; 11:3521. [PMID: 32665556 PMCID: PMC7360550 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17147-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2019] [Accepted: 06/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Microtubules (MTs) mediate mitosis, directional signaling, and are therapeutic targets in cancer. Yet in vivo analysis of cancer cell MT behavior within the tumor microenvironment remains challenging. Here we developed an imaging pipeline using plus-end tip tracking and intravital microscopy to quantify MT dynamics in live xenograft tumor models. Among analyzed features, cancer cells in vivo displayed higher coherent orientation of MT dynamics along their cell major axes compared with 2D in vitro cultures, and distinct from 3D collagen gel cultures. This in vivo MT phenotype was reproduced in vitro when cells were co-cultured with IL4-polarized MΦ. MΦ depletion, MT disruption, targeted kinase inhibition, and altered MΦ polarization via IL10R blockade all reduced MT coherence and/or tumor cell elongation. We show that MT coherence is a defining feature for in vivo tumor cell dynamics and migration, modulated by local signaling from pro-tumor macrophages. The regulation of microtubule (MT) dynamics in cancer cells within the tumor microenvironment is less understood. Here, the authors develop an imaging platform to examine MT dynamics in live xenograft models and show that pro-tumor macrophages modulate MT coherence and alignment to promote cancer cell migration.
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- Gaurav Luthria
- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.,Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.,Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02181, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02181, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. .,Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. .,Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. .,Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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Razy-Krajka F, Stolfi A. Regulation and evolution of muscle development in tunicates. EvoDevo 2019; 10:13. [PMID: 31249657 PMCID: PMC6589888 DOI: 10.1186/s13227-019-0125-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Accepted: 06/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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For more than a century, studies on tunicate muscle formation have revealed many principles of cell fate specification, gene regulation, morphogenesis, and evolution. Here, we review the key studies that have probed the development of all the various muscle cell types in a wide variety of tunicate species. We seize this occasion to explore the implications and questions raised by these findings in the broader context of muscle evolution in chordates.
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- Florian Razy-Krajka
- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
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Morov AR, Ukizintambara T, Sabirov RM, Yasui K. Acquisition of the dorsal structures in chordate amphioxus. Open Biol 2017; 6:rsob.160062. [PMID: 27307516 PMCID: PMC4929940 DOI: 10.1098/rsob.160062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2016] [Accepted: 05/17/2016] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Acquisition of dorsal structures, such as notochord and hollow nerve cord, is likely to have had a profound influence upon vertebrate evolution. Dorsal formation in chordate development thus has been intensively studied in vertebrates and ascidians. However, the present understanding does not explain how chordates acquired dorsal structures. Here we show that amphioxus retains a key clue to answer this question. In amphioxus embryos, maternal nodal mRNA distributes asymmetrically in accordance with the remodelling of the cortical cytoskeleton in the fertilized egg, and subsequently lefty is first expressed in a patch of blastomeres across the equator where wnt8 is expressed circularly and which will become the margin of the blastopore. The lefty domain co-expresses zygotic nodal by the initial gastrula stage on the one side of the blastopore margin and induces the expression of goosecoid, not-like, chordin and brachyury1 genes in this region, as in the oral ectoderm of sea urchin embryos, which provides a basis for the formation of the dorsal structures. The striking similarity in the gene regulations and their respective expression domains when comparing dorsal formation in amphioxus and the determination of the oral ectoderm in sea urchin embryos suggests that chordates derived from an ambulacrarian-type blastula with dorsoventral inversion.
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- Arseniy R Morov
- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan Department of Zoology and General Biology, Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, 18 Kremlyovskaya Street, Kazan 420008, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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- Department of Zoology and General Biology, Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, 18 Kremlyovskaya Street, Kazan 420008, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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Asymmetric cell division during embryogenesis contributes to cell diversity by generating daughter cells that adopt distinct developmental fates. In this chapter, we summarize current knowledge of three examples of asymmetric cell division occurring in ascidian early embryos: (1) Three successive cell divisions that are asymmetric in terms of cell fate and unequal in cell size in the germline lineage at the embryo posterior pole. A subcellular structure, the centrosome-attracting body (CAB), and maternal PEM mRNAs localized within it control both the positioning of the cell division planes and segregation of the germ cell fates. (2) Asymmetric cell divisions involving endoderm and mesoderm germ layer separation. Asymmetric partitioning of zygotically expressed mRNA for Not, a homeodomain transcription factor, promotes the mesoderm fate and suppresses the endoderm fate. This asymmetric partitioning is mediated by transient nuclear migration toward the mesodermal pole of the mother cell, where the mRNA is delivered. In this case, there is no special regulation of cleavage plane orientation. (3) Asymmetric cell divisions in the marginal region of the vegetal hemisphere. The directed extracellular FGF and ephrin signals polarize the mother cells, inducing distinct fates in a pair of daughter cells (nerve versus notochord and mesenchyme versus muscle). The directions of cell division are regulated and oriented but independently of FGF and ephrin signaling. In these examples, polarization of the mother cells is facilitated by localized maternal factors, by delivery of transcripts from the nucleus to one pole of each cell, and by directed extracellular signals. Two cellular processes-asymmetric fate allocation and orientation of the cell division plane-are coupled by a single factor in the first example, but these processes are regulated independently in the third example. Thus, various modes of asymmetric cell division operate even at the early developmental stages in this single type of organism.
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- Takefumi Negishi
- Division of Morphogenesis, National Institute for Basic Biology, Nishigonaka 38, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8585, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-Cho, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan.
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