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Identification of genes regulated by mechanical tension in Xenopus laevis explants by transcriptome comparison


ABSTRACT: During gastrulation and neurulation, the chordamesoderm and overlying neuroectoderm of vertebrate embryos converge under the control of a specific genetic programme to the dorsal midline, simultaneously extending along it. However, whether mechanical tensions resulting from these morphogenetic movements play a role in long-range feedback signalling that in turn regulates gene expression in the chordamesoderm and neuroectoderm is unclear. In the present work, by using a model of artificially stretched explants of Xenopus midgastrula embryos and full-transcriptome sequencing, we identified genes with altered expression in response to external mechanical stretching. Importantly, mechanically activated genes appeared to be expressed during normal development in the trunk, i.e., in the stretched region only. By contrast, genes inhibited by mechanical stretching were normally expressed in the anterior neuroectoderm, where mechanical stress is low. These results indicate that mechanical tensions may play a role of a long-range signalling factor that regulates patterning of the embryo, serving as a link coupling morphogenesis and cell differentiation.

ORGANISM(S): Xenopus laevis

PROVIDER: GSE246027 | GEO | 2024/01/31

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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