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Canonical Wnt/?-catenin signalling is essential for optic cup formation.


ABSTRACT: A multitude of signalling pathways are involved in the process of forming an eye. Here we demonstrate that ?-catenin is essential for eye development as inactivation of ?-catenin prior to cellular specification in the optic vesicle caused anophthalmia in mice. By achieving this early and tissue-specific ?-catenin inactivation we find that retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) commitment was blocked and eye development was arrested prior to optic cup formation due to a loss of canonical Wnt signalling in the dorsal optic vesicle. Thus, these results show that Wnt/?-catenin signalling is required earlier and play a more central role in eye development than previous studies have indicated. In our genetic model system a few RPE cells could escape ?-catenin inactivation leading to the formation of a small optic rudiment. The optic rudiment contained several neural retinal cell classes surrounded by an RPE. Unlike the RPE cells, the neural retinal cells could be ?-catenin-negative revealing that differentiation of the neural retinal cell classes is ?-catenin-independent. Moreover, although dorsoventral patterning is initiated in the mutant optic vesicle, the neural retinal cells in the optic rudiment displayed almost exclusively ventral identity. Thus, ?-catenin is required for optic cup formation, commitment to RPE cells and maintenance of dorsal identity of the retina.

SUBMITTER: Hagglund AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3852023 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Canonical Wnt/β-catenin signalling is essential for optic cup formation.

Hägglund Anna-Carin AC   Berghard Anna A   Carlsson Leif L  

PloS one 20131204 12


A multitude of signalling pathways are involved in the process of forming an eye. Here we demonstrate that β-catenin is essential for eye development as inactivation of β-catenin prior to cellular specification in the optic vesicle caused anophthalmia in mice. By achieving this early and tissue-specific β-catenin inactivation we find that retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) commitment was blocked and eye development was arrested prior to optic cup formation due to a loss of canonical Wnt signalling  ...[more]

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