Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Synaptotagmin-13 orchestrates pancreatic endocrine cell egression and islet morphogenesis

  • Mostafa Bakhti,
  • Aimée Bastidas-Ponce,
  • Sophie Tritschler,
  • Oliver Czarnecki,
  • Marta Tarquis-Medina,
  • Eva Nedvedova,
  • Jessica Jaki,
  • Stefanie J. Willmann,
  • Katharina Scheibner,
  • Perla Cota,
  • Ciro Salinno,
  • Karsten Boldt,
  • Nicola Horn,
  • Marius Ueffing,
  • Ingo Burtscher,
  • Fabian J. Theis,
  • Ünal Coskun,
  • Heiko Lickert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31862-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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How pancreatic islets of Langerhans are built during development is incompletely understood. Here the authors find that Synaptotagmin-13 mediates remodeling of cell-matrix adhesion to regulate endocrine cell egression and islet morphogenesis.