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SUMOylation Potentiates ZIC Protein Activity to Influence Murine Neural Crest Cell Specification

The mechanisms of neural crest cell induction and specification are highly conserved among vertebrate model organisms, but how similar these mechanisms are in mammalian neural crest cell formation remains open to question. The zinc finger of the cerebellum 1 (ZIC1) transcription factor is considered...

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Autores principales: Bellchambers, Helen M., Barratt, Kristen S., Diamand, Koula E. M., Arkell, Ruth M.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8509024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34638777
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms221910437
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author Bellchambers, Helen M.
Barratt, Kristen S.
Diamand, Koula E. M.
Arkell, Ruth M.
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Barratt, Kristen S.
Diamand, Koula E. M.
Arkell, Ruth M.
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description The mechanisms of neural crest cell induction and specification are highly conserved among vertebrate model organisms, but how similar these mechanisms are in mammalian neural crest cell formation remains open to question. The zinc finger of the cerebellum 1 (ZIC1) transcription factor is considered a core component of the vertebrate gene regulatory network that specifies neural crest fate at the neural plate border. In mouse embryos, however, Zic1 mutation does not cause neural crest defects. Instead, we and others have shown that murine Zic2 and Zic5 mutate to give a neural crest phenotype. Here, we extend this knowledge by demonstrating that murine Zic3 is also required for, and co-operates with, Zic2 and Zic5 during mammalian neural crest specification. At the murine neural plate border (a region of high canonical WNT activity) ZIC2, ZIC3, and ZIC5 function as transcription factors to jointly activate the Foxd3 specifier gene. This function is promoted by SUMOylation of the ZIC proteins at a conserved lysine immediately N-terminal of the ZIC zinc finger domain. In contrast, in the lateral regions of the neurectoderm (a region of low canonical WNT activity) basal ZIC proteins act as co-repressors of WNT/TCF-mediated transcription. Our work provides a mechanism by which mammalian neural crest specification is restricted to the neural plate border. Furthermore, given that WNT signaling and SUMOylation are also features of non-mammalian neural crest specification, it suggests that mammalian neural crest induction shares broad conservation, but altered molecular detail, with chicken, zebrafish, and Xenopus neural crest induction.
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spelling pubmed-85090242021-10-13 SUMOylation Potentiates ZIC Protein Activity to Influence Murine Neural Crest Cell Specification Bellchambers, Helen M. Barratt, Kristen S. Diamand, Koula E. M. Arkell, Ruth M. Int J Mol Sci Article The mechanisms of neural crest cell induction and specification are highly conserved among vertebrate model organisms, but how similar these mechanisms are in mammalian neural crest cell formation remains open to question. The zinc finger of the cerebellum 1 (ZIC1) transcription factor is considered a core component of the vertebrate gene regulatory network that specifies neural crest fate at the neural plate border. In mouse embryos, however, Zic1 mutation does not cause neural crest defects. Instead, we and others have shown that murine Zic2 and Zic5 mutate to give a neural crest phenotype. Here, we extend this knowledge by demonstrating that murine Zic3 is also required for, and co-operates with, Zic2 and Zic5 during mammalian neural crest specification. At the murine neural plate border (a region of high canonical WNT activity) ZIC2, ZIC3, and ZIC5 function as transcription factors to jointly activate the Foxd3 specifier gene. This function is promoted by SUMOylation of the ZIC proteins at a conserved lysine immediately N-terminal of the ZIC zinc finger domain. In contrast, in the lateral regions of the neurectoderm (a region of low canonical WNT activity) basal ZIC proteins act as co-repressors of WNT/TCF-mediated transcription. Our work provides a mechanism by which mammalian neural crest specification is restricted to the neural plate border. Furthermore, given that WNT signaling and SUMOylation are also features of non-mammalian neural crest specification, it suggests that mammalian neural crest induction shares broad conservation, but altered molecular detail, with chicken, zebrafish, and Xenopus neural crest induction. MDPI 2021-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8509024/ /pubmed/34638777 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms221910437 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Bellchambers, Helen M.
Barratt, Kristen S.
Diamand, Koula E. M.
Arkell, Ruth M.
SUMOylation Potentiates ZIC Protein Activity to Influence Murine Neural Crest Cell Specification
title SUMOylation Potentiates ZIC Protein Activity to Influence Murine Neural Crest Cell Specification
title_full SUMOylation Potentiates ZIC Protein Activity to Influence Murine Neural Crest Cell Specification
title_fullStr SUMOylation Potentiates ZIC Protein Activity to Influence Murine Neural Crest Cell Specification
title_full_unstemmed SUMOylation Potentiates ZIC Protein Activity to Influence Murine Neural Crest Cell Specification
title_short SUMOylation Potentiates ZIC Protein Activity to Influence Murine Neural Crest Cell Specification
title_sort sumoylation potentiates zic protein activity to influence murine neural crest cell specification
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8509024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34638777
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms221910437
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