イシイ　ヤスオ   石井　泰雄    所属   統合教育学修センター 統合教育学修センター    職種   講師
論文種別	原著
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読あり
表題	Morphogenesis and cytodifferentiation of the avian retinal pigmented epithelium require downregulation of Group B1 Sox genes.
掲載誌名	正式名：Development (Cambridge, England) 略　 称：Development ISSNコード：(0950-1991)0950-1991(Linking)
掲載区分	国外
巻・号・頁	136(15),pp.2579-89
著者・共著者	Ishii Yasuo, Weinberg Kerry, Oda-Ishii Izumi, Coughlin Laura, Mikawa Takashi
発行年月	2009/08
概要	The optic vesicle is a multipotential primordium of the retina, which becomes subdivided into the neural retina and retinal pigmented epithelium domains. Although the roles of several paracrine factors in patterning the optic vesicle have been studied extensively, little is known about cell-autonomous mechanisms that regulate coordinated cell morphogenesis and cytodifferentiation of the retinal pigmented epithelium. Here we demonstrate that members of the SoxB1 gene family, Sox1, Sox2 and Sox3, are all downregulated in the presumptive retinal pigmented epithelium. Constitutive maintenance of SoxB1 expression in the presumptive retinal pigmented epithelium both in vivo and in vitro resulted in the absence of cuboidal morphology and pigmentation, and in concomitant induction of neural differentiation markers. We also demonstrate that exogenous Fgf4 inhibits downregulation all SoxB1 family members in the presumptive retinal pigment epithelium. These results suggest that retinal pigment epithelium morphogenesis and cytodifferentiation requires SoxB1 downregulation, which depends on the absence of exposure to an FGF-like signal.
DOI	10.1242/dev.031344
PMID	19570849