Expression study of cadherin7 and cadherin20 in the embryonic and adult rat central nervous system.
BACKGROUND
Vertebrate classic cadherins are divided into type I and type II subtypes, which are individually expressed in brain subdivisions (e.g., prosomeres, rhombomeres, and progenitor domains) and in specific neuronal circuits in region-specific manners. We reported previously the expression of cadherin19 (cad19) in Schwann cell precursors. Cad19 is a type II classic cadherin closely clustered on a chromosome with cad7 and cad20. The expression patterns of cad7 and cad20 have been reported previously in chick embryo but not in the developing and adult central nervous system of mammals. In this study, we identified rat cad7 and cad20 and analyzed their expression patterns in embryonic and adult rat brains.


RESULTS
Rat cad7 protein showed 92% similarity to chick cad7, while rat cad20 protein had 76% similarity to Xenopus F-cadherin. Rat cad7 mRNA was initially expressed in the anterior neural plate including presumptive forebrain and midbrain regions, and then accumulated in cells of the dorsal neural tube and in rhombomere boundary cells of the hindbrain. Expression of rat cad20 mRNA was specifically localized in the anterior neural region and rhombomere 2 in the early neural plate, and later in longitudinally defined ventral cells of the hindbrain. The expression boundaries of cad7 and cad20 corresponded to those of region-specific transcription factors such as Six3, Irx3 and Otx2 in the neural plate, and Dbx2 and Gsh1 in the hindbrain. At later stages, the expression of cad7 and cad20 disappeared from neuroepithelial cells in the hindbrain, and was almost restricted to postmitotic cells, e.g. somatic motor neurons and precerebellar neurons. These results emphasized the diversity of cad7 and cad20 expression patterns in different vertebrate species, i.e. birds and rodents.


CONCLUSIONS
Taken together, our findings suggest that the expression of cad7 and cad20 demarcates the compartments, boundaries, progenitor domains, specific nuclei and specific neural circuits during mammalian brain development.
Takahashi
Masanori
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Division of Developmental Neuroscience, Center for Translational and Advanced Animal Research, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan. mtaka@mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp
Osumi
Noriko
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D000328:Adult; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D015820:Cadherins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002451:Cell Compartmentation / Q000502:physiology; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000196:embryology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D012249:Rhombencephalon / Q000166:cytology / Q000196:embryology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000502:physiology
D015820:Cadherins; C533759:Cdh20 protein, rat; C533758:Cdh7 protein, rat
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