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The recycling endosome protein Rab25 coordinates collective cell movements in the zebrafish surface epithelium

  1. Patrick Morley Willoughby
  2. Molly Allen
  3. Jessica Yu
  4. Roman Korytnikov
  5. Tianhui Chen
  6. Yupeng Liu
  7. Isis So
  8. Neil Macpherson
  9. Jennifer A Mitchell
  10. Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez
  11. Ashley E E Bruce  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Toronto, Canada
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66060
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  1. Patrick Morley Willoughby
  2. Molly Allen
  3. Jessica Yu
  4. Roman Korytnikov
  5. Tianhui Chen
  6. Yupeng Liu
  7. Isis So
  8. Neil Macpherson
  9. Jennifer A Mitchell
  10. Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez
  11. Ashley E E Bruce
(2021)
The recycling endosome protein Rab25 coordinates collective cell movements in the zebrafish surface epithelium
eLife 10:e66060.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66060
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Abstract

In emerging epithelial tissues, cells undergo dramatic rearrangements to promote tissue shape changes. Dividing cells remain interconnected via transient cytokinetic bridges. Bridges are cleaved during abscission and currently, the consequences of disrupting abscission in developing epithelia are not well understood. We show that the Rab GTPase, Rab25, localizes near cytokinetic midbodies and likely coordinates abscission through endomembrane trafficking in the epithelium of the zebrafish gastrula during epiboly. In maternal-zygotic Rab25a and Rab25b mutant embryos, morphogenic activity tears open persistent apical cytokinetic bridges that failed to undergo timely abscission. Cytokinesis defects result in anisotropic cell morphologies that are associated with a reduction of contractile actomyosin networks. This slows cell rearrangements and alters the viscoelastic responses of the tissue, all of which likely contribute to delayed epiboly. We present a model in which Rab25 trafficking coordinates cytokinetic bridge abscission and cortical actin density, impacting local cell shape changes and tissue-scale forces.

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  1. Patrick Morley Willoughby

    Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  2. Molly Allen

    Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  3. Jessica Yu

    Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  4. Roman Korytnikov

    Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  5. Tianhui Chen

    Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  6. Yupeng Liu

    Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  7. Isis So

    Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  8. Neil Macpherson

    Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  9. Jennifer A Mitchell

    Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  10. Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez

    Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  11. Ashley E E Bruce

    Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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    ashley.bruce@utoronto.ca
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Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (RGPIN-2018-04862)

  • Ashley E E Bruce

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (156279)

  • Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (RGPIN-2020-05972)

  • Jennifer A Mitchell

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Michel Bagnat, Duke University, United States

Ethics

Animal experimentation: This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Canadian Council on Animal Care Guidelines on the Care and Use of Fish in Research. All the animals were handled and maintained according to a protocol (Protocol Number: 20012462) approved by the Biological Sciences Local Animal Care Committee at the University of Toronto.

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  1. Received: December 23, 2020
  2. Accepted: March 22, 2021
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: March 23, 2021 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: April 9, 2021 (version 2)
  5. Version of Record updated: May 19, 2022 (version 3)

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© 2021, Willoughby et al.

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  1. Patrick Morley Willoughby
  2. Molly Allen
  3. Jessica Yu
  4. Roman Korytnikov
  5. Tianhui Chen
  6. Yupeng Liu
  7. Isis So
  8. Neil Macpherson
  9. Jennifer A Mitchell
  10. Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez
  11. Ashley E E Bruce
(2021)
The recycling endosome protein Rab25 coordinates collective cell movements in the zebrafish surface epithelium
eLife 10:e66060.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66060

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