Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

β-Catenin and FGFR2 regulate postnatal rosette-based adrenocortical morphogenesis

  • Sining Leng,
  • Emanuele Pignatti,
  • Radhika S. Khetani,
  • Manasvi S. Shah,
  • Simiao Xu,
  • Ji Miao,
  • Makoto M. Taketo,
  • Felix Beuschlein,
  • Paula Q. Barrett,
  • Diana L. Carlone,
  • David T. Breault

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15332-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Multicellular rosettes are known to mediate complex cellular reorganization such as epithelial folding and branching during embryonal organogenesis. Here the authors show that rosette formation regulated by β-Catenin and FGFR2 mediate postnatal adrenal cortex zona glomerulosa morphogenesis.