Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Wnt-PLC-IP3-Connexin-Ca2+ axis maintains ependymal motile cilia in zebrafish spinal cord

  • Jun Zhang,
  • Gopalakrishnan Chandrasekaran,
  • Wenting Li,
  • Dong-Young Kim,
  • In Young Jeong,
  • So-Hyun Lee,
  • Ting Liang,
  • Jin Young Bae,
  • Isaac Choi,
  • Hyuno Kang,
  • Jin-Soo Maeng,
  • Myeong-Kyu Kim,
  • Taewon Lee,
  • Seung Woo Park,
  • Min Jung Kim,
  • Hyung-Seok Kim,
  • Hyunju Ro,
  • Yong Chul Bae,
  • Hae-Chul Park,
  • Eun Young Choi,
  • Seok-Yong Choi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15248-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Ependymal cells are supporting cells in the central nervous system. Here the authors elucidate a signalling axis in zebrafish spinal cord ependymal cells that is important for motile cilia assembly and maintenance, demonstrating that it depends on intercellular propagation of calcium ions via connexin 43.