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- Coloboma is an ocular birth defect resulting from incomplete closure of the optic fissure, observed in both humans and animals.
- Research shows that deleting the Lrp6 gene in mice leads to coloboma and disrupts neuroretinal patterning, affecting gene expressions like Vax2 and Tbx5.
- The study concludes that impaired retinal patterning due to Lrp6 deletion demonstrates the critical role of Wnt signaling in managing dorsal neuroretinal development and related signaling pathways.
Article Abstract
Coloboma, an ocular birth defect seen in humans and other species, is caused by incomplete closure of the optic fissure. Here, we demonstrate that genetic deletion of Lrp6, a bottleneck coreceptor in the canonical Wnt signaling pathway, results in ocular coloboma and neuroretinal patterning defects in mice. The expression of ventral neuroretinal patterning gene Vax2 was conserved but with dorsally shifted expression domains; however, the dorsal neuroretinal patterning gene Tbx5 was lost in the Lrp6-mutant eyes at embryonic day 10.5. Both Bmp4 and phosphorylated Smad 1/5/8 were also significantly attenuated in the dorsal neuroretina. In addition, the retinoic acid synthesizing enzymes Raldh1 and Raldh3 were significantly changed in the mutant eyes. Our findings suggest that defective retinal patterning causes coloboma in the Lrp6-deficient mice, and that canonical Wnt signaling plays a primary role in dorsal neuroretinal patterning and related morphogenetic movements by regulation of both Bmp and retinoic acid signaling pathways.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2727282 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.21770 | DOI Listing |
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