BACKGROUND: Notch signaling in pronephros development has been shown to regulate establishment of glomus and proximal tubule, but how Notch signal works on competency of pronephric anlagen during the generation of pronephric components remains to be understood. RESULTS: We investigated how components of pronephros (glomus, proximal tubule, intermediate tubule, distal tubule and connecting tubule) were generated in @entity1238 embryos by timed overactivation and suppression of Notch signaling. Notch activation resulted in expansion of the glomus and disruption of the proximal tubule formation. Inhibition of Notch signaling reduced expression of @entity70081 and @entity70082 . In addition, when Notch signaling was overactivated at stage 20 on, intermediate, distal and connecting tubule markers, gremlin and clcnkb, were decreased while Notch downregulation increased gremlin and clcnkb. Similar changes were observed with segmental markers, @entity70083 , @entity70084 and @entity70085 on activation or inhibition of Notch. Although Notch did not affect the expression of pan-pronephric progenitor marker, @entity70086 , its activation inhibited lumen formation in the pronephros. CONCLUSIONS: Notch signal is essential for glomus and proximal tubule development and inhibition of Notch is critical for the differentiation of the intermediate, distal and connecting tubule. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Proper Notch activity is necessary for the establishment of proximal cells and differentiation of intermediate, distal, and connecting tubule in XXXX pronephros development.

@entity70085 :: ('495427(Tax:8355)', 'Gene') :: ['rhcg'] @entity70083 :: ('496231(Tax:8355)', 'Gene') :: ['cldn19'] @entity1238 :: ('8355', 'Species') :: ['Xenopus'] @entity70086 :: ('379520(Tax:8355)', 'Gene') :: ['pax2'] @entity70082 :: ('373659(Tax:8355)', 'Gene') :: ['XSMP-30'] @entity70084 :: ('444474(Tax:8355)', 'Gene') :: ['cldn14'] @entity70081 :: ('373588(Tax:8355)', 'Gene') :: ['wt1']
@entity1238 :: (8355,Species) :: ['Xenopus']
