Lecture 31 Development Flashcards
4 Important concepts of embryonic development
- Universal mechanisms of animal development
- Proteins can be substituted across species
- Inductive signaling
- Regional determination
Unersal mechanisms of animal development use 5 pathways
- Receptor tyrosine kinase
- TGFB superfamily
- Wnt
- Hedgehog
- Notch
Receptor tyrosine kinase
-EGF ligands
- EGF receptors
FGF, and ephrins
TGFB superfamily
- TGFB ligands and receptors
- BMP (DPP) ligands and receptors
- nodal ligands
Wnt
- wnt ligand and frizzled receptor
Hedgehog
- hedgehog ligand and patched/smoothened receptor
Notch
- Delta ligand and notch receptor
What defines the developmental program of multicellular organisms?
- Regulatory DNA
- multi cellular organisms are enriched in proteins mediating cell interactions and gene regulation
Is inductive signaling just local?
No it can act over great distances and affect multiple cells
regional determination
- once cells are committed to form a particular structure they can be taken out of resident area and transplanted to a different region but continue to behave like they did in other cite
- thoracic vertebrae developing like thoracic even though its been moved to cervical region
Sequential induction
- builds a group of different cells
- B works on A and produces C
- C works on A and. B and produces D and E
4 essential processes by which an embryo is constructed
- Cell proliferation
- Cell specialization (differentiation)
- Cell interaction
- Cell movement
All 4 processes must be working to achieve particular organism
Developmental process greatly among different species.
- mouse have 21 day gestational periond
- elephants have 645 day
Patterning
- cells that are produced by cleavage get organized into layers and groups of cell masses through what is know as gastrulation
Organization of cells into layers and cell masses is know as?
- gastrulation
Patterning occurs in what three dimensions?
- Anterior - posterior
- Proximal - Distal
- Dorsal- Ventral
Differentiation
- cells begin to form specific and specialized structures
Growth
- cell divisions that form more cells with identical functions as the parental cells
Paradigm of development
- in every species and at every level of organization, complex structures are made by repeating a few basic themes with variations