During morphogenesis, three-dimensional (3D) multicellular structures emerge from biochemical and mechanical interplays among cells. In particular, by organizing their gradient within tissues, the diffusible signalling molecules play an essential role in producing the spatio-temporal patterns of cell status such as the differentiation states. Notably, this biochemical patterning can be dynamica...

Stationary phase cultures of Candida albicans inoculated into fresh medium at 37 degrees C synchronously from buds at pH 4.5 and mycelia at pH 6.5. During bud formation, a filament ring forms just under the plasma membrane at the mother cell-bud junction at roughly the time of evagination. A filament ring also forms in mycelium-forming cells, but it appears later than in a budding cell and it i...

In vertebrates, retinal progenitor cells (RPCs) are specified at the end of the gastrulation within the anterior neural plate (ANP) as a single domain called the eye field. From that single domain, positioned medially within the ANP, the RPCs give rise to two optic vesicles, positioned more laterally. How this dramatic morphogenetic remodelling occurs is not well understood. We will show that s...

Lipid membrane curvature plays important roles in various physiological phenomena. Curvature-regulated dynamic membrane remodeling is achieved by the interaction between lipids and proteins. So far, several membrane sensing/sculpting proteins, such as Bin/amphiphysin/Rvs (BAR) proteins, are reported, but there remains the possibility of the existence of unidentified membrane-deforming proteins ...

The Stubble-stubbloid (Sb-sbd) gene is required for ecdysone-regulated epithelial morphogenesis of imaginal tissues during Drosophila metamorphosis. Mutations in Sb-sbd are associated with defects in apical cell shape changes critical for the evagination of the leg imaginal disc and with defects in assembly and extension of parallel actin bundles in growing mechanosensory bristles. The Sb-sbd g...

Engrailed is a nuclear regulatory protein with essential roles in embryonic segmentation and wing morphogenesis. One of its regulatory targets in embryos was shown to be the Polycomb group gene, polyhomeotic. We show here that transheterozygous adult flies, mutant for both engrailed and polyhomeotic, show a gap in the fourth vein. In the corresponding larval imaginal discs, a polyhomeotic-lacZ ...

The mammalian lung, like many other organs, develops by branching morphogenesis of an epithelium [1]. Development initiates with evagination of two ventral buds of foregut endoderm into the underlying splanchnic mesoderm. As the buds extend, they send out lateral branches at precise, invariant positions, establishing the primary airways and the lobes of each lung. Dichotomous branching leads to...

It has been rather generally accepted that colloid cysts of the third ventricle are derived from persisting remnants of the paraphysis2' 5 as first suggested by Sj6vall6 in 1909. The paraphysis is a variety of extraventricular choroid plexus found best developed in adult forms of the ganoid fishes and certain amphibia, but is present in the embryos of all vertebrates, including man. This struct...

= Abstract = The morphological development of the human hypophysis was studied using 142 developing human hypophyses from 19 embryos and 123 fetuses. The adenohypophysis first developed at 4 weeks of gestational age as an upward growing fold of the primitive oral ectoderm Rathke's pouch. At 7 weeks, the configuration of pars distalis and pars intermedia was formed. The Rathke's pouch lost its c...

Islet-3 is an LIM/homeodomain protein that is expressed specifically in the eyes and the presumptive tectum in the central nervous system of zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos. Overexpression of the protein (LIM(Isl-3)) consisting only of the Islet-3 LIM domains in embryos specifically prevented formation of the optic vesicles; caused abnormal termination of the expression of wnt1, engrailed2, and...