PUBLICATION
The Ribosome Biogenesis Protein Esf1 is Essential for Pharyngeal Cartilage Formation in zebrafish
- Authors
- Chen, J.Y., Tan, X., Wang, Z.H., Liu, Y.Z., Zhou, J.F., Rong, X.Z., Lu, L., Li, Y.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-180804-5
- Date
- 2018
- Source
- The FEBS journal 285(18): 3464-3484 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Rong, Xiaozhi, Tan, Xungang, Wang, Zhenghua, Zhou, Jianfeng
- Keywords
- apoptosis, neural crest cells, p53, pharyngeal cartilage
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified/embryology
- Animals, Genetically Modified/genetics
- Animals, Genetically Modified/metabolism
- Body Patterning
- Cartilage/embryology*
- Cartilage/metabolism
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/cytology*
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/metabolism
- Mutation
- Nuclear Proteins/genetics
- Nuclear Proteins/metabolism*
- Pharynx/embryology*
- Pharynx/metabolism
- Ribosomes/metabolism
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/genetics
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/metabolism*
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish/metabolism
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 30073783 Full text @ FEBS J.
Citation
Chen, J.Y., Tan, X., Wang, Z.H., Liu, Y.Z., Zhou, J.F., Rong, X.Z., Lu, L., Li, Y. (2018) The Ribosome Biogenesis Protein Esf1 is Essential for Pharyngeal Cartilage Formation in zebrafish. The FEBS journal. 285(18):3464-3484.
Abstract
Craniofacial malformations are common congenital birth defects and usually caused by abnormal development of the cranial neural crest cells (CNCCs). Some nucleolar ribosome biogenesis factors are implicated in neural crest disorders also known as neurocristopathies. However, the underlying mechanisms linking ribosome biogenesis and NCC development remains to be elucidated. Here we report a novel zebrafish model with a CRISPR/Cas9 generated esf1 mutation, which exhibits severe NCC-derived pharyngeal cartilage loss and defects in the eyes, brain and heart. The expression of several typical NCC markers, including sox10, dlx2a, nrp2b, crestin, vgll2a and sox9a, were reduced in the head of the esf1 mutants, which indicates that esf1 plays a role in the development of zebrafish NCCs. We demonstrate that, similar to the yeast, loss of esf1 in zebrafish leads to defects in 18S rRNA biogenesis and ribosome biogenesis. We also show that strong upregulation of p53 signaling as well as apoptosis, and poor proliferation in mutants. Inactivation of p53 rescues the early tissue defects and pharyngeal cartilage loss observed in esf1 mutants, indicating that increased cell death and pharyngeal cartilage defects observed in esf1 mutants are mediated via up-regulated p53 signaling pathways. Based on transplantation analysis, we found that esf1 functions in NCC in a cell autonomous fashion. Together, our results suggest that esf1 is required for NCC development and pharyngeal cartilage formation. These studies provide a potential model for investigating the relationship between ribosome biogenesis defects and craniofacial neurocristopathies. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping