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ECB-ART-49323
Dev Dyn 2021 Aug 01;2508:1160-1172. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.316.
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Functional contribution of DCLKs in sea urchin development.

Xu D , Wavreil FDM , Waldron A , Yajima M .


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BACKGROUND: Doublecortin-like kinase1 and 2 (DCLKs) are protein Ser/Thr kinases important for neuronal development. More recently, they are also reported to regulate plasticity such as cell proliferation and differentiation of stem cells and cancer cells, but the details of their functions in this biological context are still unclear. With an attempt to reveal the functions of DCLKs in plasticity regulation, we here used the sea urchin embryo that undergoes highly regulative development as an experimental model. RESULTS: We found that both the transcripts and the proteins of DCLKs are uniformly present during early embryogenesis and with some enrichment in mesenchymal cells after gastrula stage. Knockdown of DCLKs induced general developmental delay and defects at day 2. Further, the damage on the embryo/larva induced ectopic expression of DCLKs in the ectoderm where the damage was most severe. Under a tumor-prone or -suppressive condition, DCLKs expression was upregulated or downregulated, respectively, after damage. In both cases, the embryos showed severe developmental defects. CONCLUSIONS: Taken together, a transient upregulation of DCLKs appears to be involved in a damage response both during normal and abnormal development, and which could result in different phenotypes in a context dependent manner.

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gRNAs referenced: LOC578013 gRNA1 LOC578013 gRNA2 LOC578013 gRNA3 LOC578013 gRNA4 LOC587664 gRNA1 LOC587664 gRNA2 LOC587664 gRNA3 LOC587664 gRNA4

References [+] :
Andrikou, Myogenesis in the sea urchin embryo: the molecular fingerprint of the myoblast precursors. 2013, Pubmed, Echinobase