title: Eph/Ephrin signalling maintains eye field segregation from adjacent neural plate territories during forebrain morphogenesis.
abstract: During forebrain morphogenesis, there is extensive reorganisation of the cells destined to form the eyes, telencephalon and diencephalon. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms that regulate region-specific behaviours and that maintain the coherence of cell populations undergoing specific morphogenetic processes. In this study, we show that the activity of the Eph/Ephrin signalling pathway maintains segregation between the prospective eyes and adjacent regions of the anterior neural plate during the early stages of forebrain morphogenesis in zebrafish. Several Ephrins and Ephs are expressed in complementary domains in the prospective forebrain and combinatorial abrogation of their activity results in incomplete segregation of the eyes and telencephalon and in defective evagination of the optic vesicles. Conversely, expression of exogenous Ephs or Ephrins in regions of the prospective forebrain where they are not usually expressed changes the adhesion properties of the cells, resulting in segregation to the wrong domain without changing their regional fate. The failure of eye morphogenesis in rx3 mutants is accompanied by a loss of complementary expression of Ephs and Ephrins, suggesting that this pathway is activated downstream of the regional fate specification machinery to establish boundaries between domains undergoing different programmes of morphogenesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
authors.forename: Florencia
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cavodeassi
authors.forename: Kenzo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ivanovitch
authors.forename: Stephen W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D030801:Animals, Genetically Modified; D019521:Body Patterning / Q000235:genetics; D004027:Diencephalon / Q000196:embryology; D036342:Ephrins / Q000378:metabolism*; D005123:Eye / Q000196:embryology*; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D009024:Morphogenesis; D054258:Neural Plate / Q000196:embryology*; D016548:Prosencephalon / Q000196:embryology*; D036081:Receptors, Eph Family / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013687:Telencephalon / Q000196:embryology; D015027:Zebrafish
chemical_list: D036342:Ephrins; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins; C488383:Rx3 protein, zebrafish; D036081:Receptors, Eph Family
keywords: Eye field; Morphogenesis; Neural plate; Zebrafish
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