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XB-ART-59804
iScience 2023 May 19;265:106585. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106585.
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Blastopore gating mechanism to regulate extracellular fluid excretion.

Kato S , Inomata H .


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Fluid uptake and efflux play roles in early embryogenesis as well as in adult homeostasis. Multicellular organisms have two main pathways for fluid movement: cellular-level, such as transcellular and paracellular pathways, and tissue-level, involving muscle contraction. Interestingly, early Xenopus embryos with immature functional muscles excrete archenteron fluid via a tissue-level mechanism that opens the blastopore through a gating mechanism that is unclear. Using microelectrodes, we show that the archenteron has a constant fluid pressure and as development progress the blastopore pressure resistance decreases. Combining physical perturbations and imaging analyses, we found that the pushing force exerted by the circumblastoporal collars (CBCs) at the slit periphery regulates pressure resistance. We show that apical constriction at the blastopore dorsoventral ends contributes to this pushing force, and relaxation of ventral constriction causes fluid excretion. These results indicate that actomyosin contraction mediates temporal control of tissue-level blastopore opening and fluid excretion in early Xenopus embryos.

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