Role of Crumbs proteins in the control of epithelial cell and photoreceptor morphogenesis

Médecine sciences : M/S
Céline LemmersAndre Le Bivic

Abstract

Degeneration of retina can have many causes and among the genes involved, CRB1 has been shown to be associated with Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) group 12 and Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), two dramatic pathologies in young patients. CRB1 belongs to a family of genes conserved from Caenorhabditis elegans to human. In Drosophila melanogaster, for example, crb is essential both for the formation of the adherens junctions in epithelial cells of ectodermal origin during gastrulation and for the morphogenesis of photoreceptors in the eye. Crumbs is a transmembrane protein with a short cytoplasmic domain that interacts with scaffold proteins, Stardust and Discs lost, and with the apical cytoskeleton made of moesin and betaheavy-spectrin. The extracellular domain of Crumbs is essential for its function in photoreceptors but so far there are no known proteins interacting with it. In human, there are three known crb homologues, CRB1, 2 and 3, and CRB1 is expressed in the retina and localizes to the adherens junctions of the rods. Based on the model drawn from Drosophila, CRB1 could be involved in maintaining the morphology of rods to ensure a normal function of the retina. This is supported by the fact that the homologues of the known pa...Continue Reading

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