Journal: Development (Cambridge, England)
Article Title: MMP14 is required for delamination of chick neural crest cells independently of its catalytic activity
doi: 10.1242/dev.183954
Figure Lengend Snippet: Homogenous distribution of MMP14 is sufficient to promote basal mitoses independently of its catalytic activity. (A) Immunostaining against phospho-histone H3 (pH3, magenta) after electroporation with the scrambled control or siRNA-MMP14. (B) Positions of mitoses in the intermediate neural tube region with the scrambled control (nembryos=6, nmitoses=339; from two independent experiments) or siRNA-MMP14 (nembryos=11, nmitoses=362; from four independent experiments). Unpaired Mann–Whitney test, P=0.7780. (C) Diagram depicting the different forms of MMP14. (D) Immunostaining against pH3 (magenta) after overexpression of MMP14, MMP14-ΔCAT, MMP14-EA and MMP14-ΔCyto. Arrows indicate non-apical mitoses. (E) Positions of all mitoses for each condition depicted in D. Control side (nembryos=26, nmitoses=1908), MMP14 (nembryos=7, nmitoses=716), MMP14-ΔCAT (nembryos=7, nmitoses=406) and MMP14-EA (nembryos=9, nmitoses=707) from three independent experiments, and MMP14-ΔCyto (nembryos=3, nmitoses=431) from one experiment. (F) Percentages of non-apical mitoses for each condition depicted in D. Non-apical mitoses were determined as mitoses occurring more than two nuclei diameters away from the apical domain. Statistics were performed according to Taillard et al. (2008), Thresholds for T were such that, at *T>3.841, the null hypothesis is rejected with a 95% confidence, at **T>6.635, the null hypothesis is rejected with 99% confidence and at ***T>10.83, the null hypothesis is rejected with 99.9% confidence. In B,E, the lines indicate the median and the error bars show the extent of the whole dataset. Electroporated side is indicated by GFP (A,D, green). Scale bars: 35 µm.
Article Snippet: Western blot antibodies used were: custom-made polyclonal mouse anti-chick MMP14 (1/2500), rabbit anti-tubulin (Cell Signaling, 2148, 1/1000), anti-mouse PAR3 and anti-human Par3 (Millipore 07-330 and 8E8, respectively, 1/1000; clone 8E8 did not recognize chick-Par3, 07-330 produced multiple non-specific bands on top of the expected 180, 150 and 100 kDa bands, rendering the blots inconclusive), mouse anti-GFP (Roche, 11814460001, 1/1000) and rabbit anti-GFP (Merck, G1544, 1/1000).
Techniques: Activity Assay, Immunostaining, Electroporation, Control, MANN-WHITNEY, Over Expression