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A new gain‐of‐function mouse line to study the role of Wnt3a in development and disease
Authors:Ravindra B Chalamalasetty  Rieko Ajima  Robert J Garriock  Mark W Kennedy  Lino Tessarollo  Terry P Yamaguchi
Abstract:Wnt/β‐catenin signals are important regulators of embryonic and adult stem cell self‐renewal and differentiation and play causative roles in tumorigenesis. Purified recombinant Wnt3a protein, or Wnt3a‐conditioned culture medium, has been widely used to study canonical Wnt signaling in vitro or ex vivo. To study the role of Wnt3a in embryogenesis and cancer models, we developed a Cre recombinase activatable Rosa26Wnt3a allele, in which a Wnt3a cDNA was inserted into the Rosa26 locus to allow for conditional, spatiotemporally defined expression of Wnt3a ligand for gain‐of‐function (GOF) studies in mice. To validate this reagent, we ectopically overexpressed Wnt3a in early embryonic progenitors using the T‐Cre transgene. This resulted in up‐regulated expression of a β‐catenin/Tcf‐Lef reporter and of the universal Wnt/β‐catenin pathway target genes, Axin2 and Sp5. Importantly, T‐Cre; Rosa26Wnt3a mutants have expanded presomitic mesoderm (PSM) and compromised somitogenesis and closely resemble previously studied T‐Cre; Ctnnb1ex3 (β‐cateninGOF) mutants. These data indicate that the exogenously expressed Wnt3a stimulates the Wnt/β‐catenin signaling pathway, as expected. The Rosa26Wnt3a mouse line should prove to be an invaluable tool to study the function of Wnt3a in vivo.
Keywords:development  gastrulation  growth factor  mouse embryo  presomitic mesoderm (PSM)  primitive streak (PS)  stem cells  Wnt3a
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