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Titel
Proliferation-driven mechanical compression induces signalling centre formation during mammalian organ development
Ist Teil von
  • Nature cell biology, 2024-04, Vol.26 (4), p.519-529
Ort / Verlag
England
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
Quelle
MEDLINE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
  • Localized sources of morphogens, called signalling centres, play a fundamental role in coordinating tissue growth and cell fate specification during organogenesis. However, how these signalling centres are established in tissues during embryonic development is still unclear. Here we show that the main signalling centre orchestrating development of rodent incisors, the enamel knot (EK), is specified by a cell proliferation-driven buildup in compressive stresses (mechanical pressure) in the tissue. Direct mechanical measurements indicate that the stresses generated by cell proliferation are resisted by the surrounding tissue, creating a circular pattern of mechanical anisotropy with a region of high compressive stress at its centre that becomes the EK. Pharmacological inhibition of proliferation reduces stresses and suppresses EK formation, and application of external pressure in proliferation-inhibited conditions rescues the formation of the EK. Mechanical information is relayed intracellularly through YAP protein localization, which is cytoplasmic in the region of compressive stress that establishes the EK and nuclear in the stretched anisotropic cells that resist the pressure buildup around the EK. Together, our data identify a new role for proliferation-driven mechanical compression in the specification of a model signalling centre during mammalian organ development.
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISSN: 1465-7392
eISSN: 1476-4679
DOI: 10.1038/s41556-024-01380-4
Titel-ID: cdi_pubmed_primary_38570617

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