Xiao-Jing Zhu1, Yudong Liu1, Xueyan Yuan1, Min Wang1, Wanxin Zhao1, Xueqin Yang1, Xiaoyun Zhang1, Wei Hsu2, Mengsheng Qiu1,3, Ze Zhang4, Zunyi Zhang1. 1. Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, College of Life and Environmental Science, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang, China. 2. Department of Biomedical Genetics, Center for Oral Biology, James P Wilmot Cancer Center, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York. 3. Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. 4. Department of Ophthalmology, Tulane University Medical center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Mutations of WNT3, WNT5A, WNT9B, and WNT11 genes are associated with orofacial birth defects, including nonsyndromic cleft lip with cleft palate in humans. However, the source of Wnt ligands and their signaling effects on the orofacial morphogenetic process remain elusive. RESULTS: Using Foxg1-Cre to impair Wnt secretion through the inactivation of Gpr177/mWls, we investigate the relevant regulation of Wnt production and signaling in nasal-facial development. Ectodermal ablation of Gpr177 leads to severe facial deformities resulting from dramatically reduced cell proliferation and increased cell death due to a combined loss of WNT, FGF and BMP signaling in the developing facial prominence. In the invaginating nasal pit, the Gpr177 disruption also causes a detrimental effect on migration of the olfactory epithelial cells into the mesenchymal region. The blockage of Wnt secretion apparently impairs the olfactory epithelial cells through modulation of JNK signaling. CONCLUSIONS: Our study thus suggests the head ectoderm, including the facial ectoderm and the neuroectoderm, as the source of canonical as well as noncanonical Wnt ligands during early development of the nasal-facial prominence. Both β-catenin-dependent and -independent signaling pathways are required for proper development of these morphogenetic processes.
BACKGROUND: Mutations of WNT3, WNT5A, WNT9B, and WNT11 genes are associated with orofacial birth defects, including nonsyndromic cleft lip with cleft palate in humans. However, the source of Wnt ligands and their signaling effects on the orofacial morphogenetic process remain elusive. RESULTS: Using Foxg1-Cre to impair Wnt secretion through the inactivation of Gpr177/mWls, we investigate the relevant regulation of Wnt production and signaling in nasal-facial development. Ectodermal ablation of Gpr177 leads to severe facial deformities resulting from dramatically reduced cell proliferation and increased cell death due to a combined loss of WNT, FGF and BMP signaling in the developing facial prominence. In the invaginating nasal pit, the Gpr177 disruption also causes a detrimental effect on migration of the olfactory epithelial cells into the mesenchymal region. The blockage of Wnt secretion apparently impairs the olfactory epithelial cells through modulation of JNK signaling. CONCLUSIONS: Our study thus suggests the head ectoderm, including the facial ectoderm and the neuroectoderm, as the source of canonical as well as noncanonical Wnt ligands during early development of the nasal-facial prominence. Both β-catenin-dependent and -independent signaling pathways are required for proper development of these morphogenetic processes.
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