Midkine-A functions upstream of Id2a to regulate cell cycle kinetics in the developing vertebrate retina
dc.contributor.author | Luo, Jing | |
dc.contributor.author | Uribe, Rosa A | |
dc.contributor.author | Hayton, Sarah | |
dc.contributor.author | Calinescu, Anda-Alexandra | |
dc.contributor.author | Gross, Jeffrey M | |
dc.contributor.author | Hitchcock, Peter F | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-07T17:30:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-07T17:30:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-10-30 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Neural Development. 2012 Oct 30;7(1):33 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/112460 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract Background Midkine is a small heparin binding growth factor expressed in numerous tissues during development. The unique midkine gene in mammals has two paralogs in zebrafish: midkine-a (mdka) and midkine-b (mdkb). In the zebrafish retina, during both larval development and adult photoreceptor regeneration, mdka is expressed in retinal stem and progenitor cells and functions as a molecular component of the retina’s stem cell niche. In this study, loss-of-function and conditional overexpression were used to investigate the function of Mdka in the retina of the embryonic zebrafish. Results The results show that during early retinal development Mdka functions to regulate cell cycle kinetics. Following targeted knockdown of Mdka synthesis, retinal progenitors cycle more slowly, and this results in microphthalmia, a diminished rate of cell cycle exit and a temporal delay of cell cycle exit and neuronal differentiation. In contrast, Mdka overexpression results in acceleration of the cell cycle and retinal overgrowth. Mdka gain-of-function, however, does not temporally advance cell cycle exit. Experiments to identify a potential Mdka signaling pathway show that Mdka functions upstream of the HLH regulatory protein, Id2a. Gene expression analysis shows Mdka regulates id2a expression, and co-injection of Mdka morpholinos and id2a mRNA rescues the Mdka loss-of-function phenotype. Conclusions These data show that in zebrafish, Mdka resides in a shared Id2a pathway to regulate cell cycle kinetics in retinal progenitors. This is the first study to demonstrate the function of Midkine during retinal development and adds Midkine to the list of growth factors that transcriptionally regulate Id proteins. | |
dc.title | Midkine-A functions upstream of Id2a to regulate cell cycle kinetics in the developing vertebrate retina | |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/112460/1/13064_2012_Article_215.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/1749-8104-7-33 | en_US |
dc.language.rfc3066 | en | |
dc.rights.holder | Luo et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-08-07T17:30:11Z | |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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