WNT1 and WNT3a promote expansion of melanocytes through distinct modes of action
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- DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2005.00226.x
WNT1 and WNT3a promote expansion of melanocytes through distinct modes of action
Abstract
Summary WNT1 and WNT3a have been described as having redundant roles in promoting the development of neural crest-derived melanocytes (NC-Ms). We used cell lineage restricted retroviral infections to examine the effects of WNT signaling on defined cell types in neural crest cultures. RCAS retroviral infections were targeted to melanoblasts (NC-M precursor cells) derived from transgenic mice that express the virus receptor, TVA, under the control of a melanoblast promoter (DCT). As expected, over 90% of DCT-TVA+ cells expressed early melanoblast markers MITF and KIT. However, by following the fate of infected cells in standard culture conditions, we find that only 5% of descendents were NC-Ms. The majority of the descendents were not NC-Ms, but expressed smooth muscle cell markers, demonstrating that mammalian melanoblasts are not committed to the NC-M lineage. RCAS infection of DCT-TVA+ cells demonstrated that overexpression of canonical WNT signaling genes (betaCAT, WNT3a or WNT1) can increase NC-M numbers in an endothelin dependent manner. However, WNT1 and WNT3a have different modes of action with respect to melanoblast fate. Intrinsic over-expression of betaCAT or WNT3a can increase NC-M numbers by biasing the fate of DCT-TVA+ cells to NC-Ms. In contrast, the DCT-TVA+ melanoblasts cannot respond to WNT1 signaling and do not alter their fate towards NC-M. Instead, WNT1 only increases NC-M numbers through paracrine signaling on melanoblast precursors to increase the numbers of neural crest cells that become NC-Ms.
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