title: Planar cell polarity: coordinating morphogenetic cell behaviors with embryonic polarity.
abstract: Planar cell polarization entails establishment of cellular asymmetries within the tissue plane. An evolutionarily conserved planar cell polarity (PCP) signaling system employs intra- and intercellular feedback interactions between its core components, including Frizzled, Van Gogh, Flamingo, Prickle, and Dishevelled, to establish their characteristic asymmetric intracellular distributions and coordinate planar polarity of cell populations. By translating global patterning information into asymmetries of cell membranes and intracellular organelles, PCP signaling coordinates morphogenetic behaviors of individual cells and cell populations with the embryonic polarity. In vertebrates, by polarizing cilia in the node/Kupffer's vesicle, PCP signaling links the anteroposterior to left-right embryonic polarity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
authors.forename: Ryan S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Roszko
authors.forename: Lilianna
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Solnica-Krezel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019521:Body Patterning; D016764:Cell Polarity; D002923:Cilia / Q000378:metabolism; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian / Q000166:cytology* / Q000196:embryology* / Q000378:metabolism; D051157:Frizzled Receptors / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D022101:Microtubule-Organizing Center / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D051157:Frizzled Receptors