Quail Gastrulation ECM Movie

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Quail Primitive Streak fibronectin movement (HH stage 2)

En-face, brightfield, view of an embryo near the beginning of the time-lapse sequence (30 min), HH stage 2 - Hamburger Hamilton stage 2.

The time-lapse video show that equivalence between virtual material particle (VMP) and fibronectin (FN) displacement patterns is easily discerned.


Links: Quicktime | MP4 | Flash | Chicken Development | Gastrulation

Reference

<pubmed>18922043</pubmed>| PMC2567004 | PLoS Biol.

Copyright:

© 2008 Zamir et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


PLoS Biol. 2008 Oct 14;6(10):e247. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060247.

The ECM moves during primitive streak formation--computation of ECM versus cellular motion. Zamir EA, Rongish BJ, Little CD. Source Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America.

Abstract

Galileo described the concept of motion relativity--motion with respect to a reference frame--in 1632. He noted that a person below deck would be unable to discern whether the boat was moving. Embryologists, while recognizing that embryonic tissues undergo large-scale deformations, have failed to account for relative motion when analyzing cell motility data. A century of scientific articles has advanced the concept that embryonic cells move ("migrate") in an autonomous fashion such that, as time progresses, the cells and their progeny assemble an embryo. In sharp contrast, the motion of the surrounding extracellular matrix scaffold has been largely ignored/overlooked. We developed computational/optical methods that measure the extent embryonic cells move relative to the extracellular matrix. Our time-lapse data show that epiblastic cells largely move in concert with a sub-epiblastic extracellular matrix during stages 2 and 3 in primitive streak quail embryos. In other words, there is little cellular motion relative to the extracellular matrix scaffold--both components move together as a tissue. The extracellular matrix displacements exhibit bilateral vortical motion, convergence to the midline, and extension along the presumptive vertebral axis--all patterns previously attributed solely to cellular "migration." Our time-resolved data pose new challenges for understanding how extracellular chemical (morphogen) gradients, widely hypothesized to guide cellular trajectories at early gastrulation stages, are maintained in this dynamic extracellular environment. We conclude that models describing primitive streak cellular guidance mechanisms must be able to account for sub-epiblastic extracellular matrix displacements.

Comment in A new view of embryogenesis--connective fibers join the dance. [PLoS Biol. 2008] PMID 18922043

Image from video 2 relabelled.