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A novel G protein-coupled receptor, related to GPR4, is required for assembly of the cortical actin skeleton in early Xenopus embryos
Authors:Tao Qinghua  Lloyd Brett  Lang Stephanie  Houston Douglas  Zorn Aaron  Wylie Chris
Institution:Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.
Abstract:As the fertilized Xenopus egg undergoes sequential cell divisions to form a blastula, each cell develops a network of cortical actin that provides shape and skeletal support for the whole embryo. Disruption of this network causes loss of shape and rigidity of the embryo, and disrupts gastrulation movements. We previously showed that lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) signaling controls the change in cortical actin density that occurs at different stages of the cell cycle. Here, we use a gain-of-function screen, using an egg cDNA expression library, to identify an orphan G protein-coupled cell-surface receptor (XFlop) that controls the overall amount of cortical F-actin. Overexpression of XFlop increases the amount of cortical actin, as well as embryo rigidity and wound healing, whereas depletion of maternal XFlop mRNA does the reverse. Both overexpression and depletion of XFlop perturb gastrulation movements. Reciprocal rescue experiments, and comparison of the effects of their depletion in early embryos, show that the XLPA and XFlop signaling pathways play independent roles in cortical actin assembly, and thus that multiple signaling pathways control the actin skeleton in the blastula.
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