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Gastrulation

Gastrulation is a critical stage of embryonic development where the embryo undergoes dramatic morphological changes, establishing the three primary germ layers: ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm.
This complex process involves cell migration, invagination, and differentiation, laying the foundation for the formation of major organ systems.
Studying the molecular and cellular mechanisms governing gastrulation is crucial for understanding early embryogenesis and developmental biology.
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CytoD was injected laterally at mid-late cellularization with 0.5 mg/ml CytoD in 10 % DMSO (Calbiochem). Double stranded RNA against snail and twist (2 mg/ml) were injected laterally into freshly laid eggs that were incubated 2.5–3 hours before imaging gastrulation.
Publication 2008
Eggs Gastrulation Helix (Snails) RNA, Double-Stranded Sulfoxide, Dimethyl
Pregnant C57BL/6 mouse females were purchased from Charles River and delivered one day before or on the day of embryo harvest. Mouse embryos were dissected at time-points E6.5, E6.75. E7.0, E7.25, E7.5, E7.75, E8.0, E8.25 and E8.5. As previously reported6 (link), development can proceed at different speeds between embryos, even within the same litter (Fig. 1a; Extended Data Fig. 1). Consequently, we adopted careful staging by morphology (Downs and Davies staging6 (link)) to exclude clear outliers. Following euthanasia of the females using cervical dislocation, the uteri were collected into PBS with 2% heat-inactivated FCS and the embryos were immediately dissected and processed for scRNA-seq. Two samples contained pooled embryos staged across several time-points. Cells from these samples are denoted as “Mixed” in Figures, and “mixed_gastrulation” in Supplementary Information Table 4. Embryos from the same stage were pooled to make individual 10X samples, and single-cell suspensions were prepared by incubating the embryos with TrypLE Express dissociation reagent (Life Technologies) at 37 °C for 7 min and quenching with heat inactivated serum. The resulting single-cell suspension was washed and resuspended in PBS with 0.4% BSA, and filtered through a Flowmi Tip Strainer with 40 µm porosity (ThermoFisher Scientific, #136800040). Cell counts were then assessed with a haemocytometer. scRNA-seq libraries were subsequently generated using the 10X Genomics Chromium system (version 1 chemistry) and samples were sequenced according to the manufacturer’s instructions on an Illumina HiSeq 2500 platform. Supplementary Information Table 1 contains detailed information on embryo collection, and Supplementary Information Table 4 contains metadata for each sequenced cell. Sample sizes were chosen to maximise the number of recovered cells from each experiment and to obtain total cell numbers similar to the estimated cell numbers in mouse embryos at their respective stages. The sample sizes were also dependent on the number of viable embryos from each litter. Cells were partitioned to prevent overloading of a single 10X lane.
Publication 2019
2-(beta-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethylaminomethyl)tetralone Cells Chromium Embryo Euthanasia Females Gastrulation Joint Dislocations Lanugo Mice, Inbred C57BL Mus Neck Pregnant Women Rivers Serum Single-Cell RNA-Seq Strains Uterus

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Publication 2009
alexa fluor 488 anti-IgG Antibodies Blastomeres Embryo Gastrulation Genes Goat Immunofluorescence Morpholinos Mus Protein Biosynthesis Proteins RNA, Messenger Xenopus laevis
To obtain separated count matrices for spliced and unspliced mRNAs, we ran velocyto 0.17.17 [10 (link)] on the .bam files from the mouse atlas in Pijuan-Sala et al. ([25 (link)]; Arrayexpress accession number: E-MTAB-6967). We kept all cells that passed the QC as described in the original publication, but filtered out from downstream analysis the extraembryonic tissues: ExE endoderm, ExE ectoderm, and Parietal endoderm as well as samples with no timepoint allocation (labelled as “mixed gastrulation”). To select highly variable genes (HVGs) we applied both the scanpy v1.5.1 and the scVelo v0.2.1 [14 ] pipelines. That is, we removed genes with less than 20 shared counts between spliced and unspliced counts, before normalizing and log transforming the remaining genes. Then, we selected the top 2500 HVGs from each approach (resulting in a total of 4000, with 1000 overlapping genes) for further calculation of moments, while performing imputation using the top 30 nearest neighbours from the graph connectivities generated with the original UMAP coordinates from Pijuan-Sala et al. [25 (link)]. The velocity vectors were computed in dynamical mode rather than steady state.
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Publication 2021
Cells Cloning Vectors Ectoderm Endoderm Gastrulation Genes Genes, Overlapping Mus RNA, Messenger Tissues
Expression of pluripotent, gastrulation, and cardiac markers was detected by RT-PCR.37 (link),38 (link) Mouse Gapdh (4352932E; Applied Biosystems) was used as control. Analyzed genes included Sox2 (Mm00488369_s1), Oct4 (Mm00658129_gH), Fgf4 (Mm00438917_m1), Gsc (Mm00650681_g1), Sox17 (Mm00488363_m1), Mesp2 (Mm00655937_m1), Tbx5 (Mm00803521_m1), Nkx2.5 (Mm00657783_m1) and Mef2c (Mm01340839_m1; Applied Biosystems).
Publication 2009
FGF4 protein, human GAPDH protein, human Gastrulation Genes Heart Mice, Laboratory POU5F1 protein, human Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction SOX2 protein, human

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The inbred lines used in this study and in Wu et al. [31 ] were kind gifts of Dr. Cecelia Miles [77 (link)]: #2.46.4, #2.49.3, #9.17.1 and #9.31.2, representing LΑ, Lλ, SΑ and Sλ, respectively. Embryo collection, FISH and imaging were performed for Lλ and Sλ as previously reported [31 ]. Briefly, 0–4 h embryos were collected from 5 to 10-day-old females under standard conditions at 25°. We performed mRNA FISH using digoxigenin-labelled RNA probes synthesized as before [31 ,78 (link)], and the fluorescence signals were detected by sheep anti-digoxigenin (Roche, 1:400) and goat anti-sheep AlexaFluor 594 (Life technologies, 1:400) as the primary and secondary antibodies, respectively. The nuclei of collected embryos were counterstained with 4,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI).
We performed imaging on Zeiss Imager Z1 ApoTome microscope, and the associated software AxioVision 4.8 was applied to capture images in linear settings without normalization as before [31 ]. Imaging for embryos was focused on the mid-sagittal section and taken with 10× objective, capturing embryos at the stage of interest (nc13 or nc14 before gastrulation) and avoiding embryos with severe morphological distortion and deformations. We adjusted the exposure time through using stained embryo with highest intensity to effectively avoid pixel intensity saturation. To make direct comparisons of expression profiles between lines, all experiments and imaging were conducted side by side.
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Publication 2023
Antibodies Cell Nucleus Digoxigenin Domestic Sheep Embryo Females Fishes Fluorescence Gastrulation Gifts Goat Microscopy RNA, Messenger RNA Probes
Chemical treatments were completed as previously described, with chemicals as listed in Table 1 [34 (link),38 ,39 (link)]. Chemicals were dissolved in DMSO to make a 10 mM stock solution. Stocks were aliquoted and stored at −80 °C. Aliquots were thawed at room temperature and protected from light. Working solutions were diluted in E3 and distributed to 6- or 12-well plates. Chemical treatments were completed beginning at the shield stage (6 h post-fertilization (hpf)) until the 24 hpf stage, unless otherwise noted. We chose to treat at the shield stage, as the animals were already undergoing gastrulation. Thus, this timepoint prevents interference with the onset of gastrulation. The dose for each chemical was decided by treating at doses consistent with previous studies or slightly increased concentrations to maximize penetrance while minimizing morphological defects. Animals treated with E2 exhibited distal segmentation phenotypes at both 20 µM and 25 µM. As most animals had a curved body axis at 25 µM, we proceeded with 20 µM treatments. We treated with 400 µM DPN, 400 µM MPP, and 75 µM PPT, however the animals did not exhibit changes in distal nephron segmentation. When exposed to higher doses, the animals exhibited morphological defects or mortality. PHTPP exhibited the highest penetrance of distal segmentation without morphological defects at 18 µM. Xenoestrogens genistein and ethinylestradiol exhibited the highest penetrance of distal segmentation without morphological defects at 20 µM. Treatments were conducted in triplicate with at least n > 20 embryos per replicate at various doses (Table 2). All experiments were conducted with a DMSO vehicle control. DMSO control animals are demarcated as “WT” in all graphics and schematics.
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Publication 2023
Animals DNA Replication Embryo Epistropheus Ethinyl Estradiol Fertilization Gastrulation Genistein Human Body Light Nephrons Phenotype Sulfoxide, Dimethyl
We applied CellOracle to a scRNA-seq atlas of mouse gastrulation and organogenesis by Pijuan-Sala et al.30 (link). This single-cell profiling of WT cells highlighted a continuous differentiation trajectory across the early development of various cell types (Extended Data Fig. 9a). In addition, the developmental effects of Tal1 KO, a TF known to regulate early haematoendothelial development64 (link),65 (link), were investigated in this study. We validated the CellOracle simulation using these Tal1 KO ground-truth scRNA-seq data. The data were generated from seven chimeric E8.5 embryos of WT and Tal1 KO cells (25,307 cells and 26,311 cells, respectively). We used the R library, MouseGastrulationData (https://github.com/MarioniLab/MouseGastrulationData), to download the mouse early gastrulation scRNA-seq dataset. This library provides the GEM and metadata. We used the Tal1 chimera GEM and cell-type annotation, “cell type.mapped”, provided by this library. Data were normalized with SCTransform66 (link). The GEM was converted to the AnnData format and processed in the same way as the Paul et al. dataset. For the dimensionality reduction, we used UMAP using the PAGA graph for the initialization (maxiter=500, min_dist=0.6). We removed the extraembryonic ectoderm (ExE), primordial germ cell (PGC) and stripped nuclei clusters which lie outside the main differentiation branch. After removing these clusters, we used the WT cell data for the simulations (24,964 cells). GRN calculations and simulations were performed as described above using the default parameters. We used the base GRN generated from the mouse sci-ATAC-seq atlas dataset. We constructed cluster-wise GRN models for 25 cell states. Then, we simulated Tal1 KO effects using the WT scRNA-seq dataset. For the late-stage-specific Tal1 conditional KO simulation, we set Tal1 expression to be zero in the blood progenitor and erythroid clusters to analyse the role of Tal1 in late erythroid differentiation stages (Extended Data Fig. 9i,j).
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Publication 2023
ATAC-Seq BLOOD cDNA Library Cell Nucleus Cells Chimera Ectoderm Embryo Gastrulation Germ Cells Mus Organogenesis Single-Cell RNA-Seq TAL1 protein, human
Embryos were imaged using a Zeiss LSM 900 confocal microscope. Plan-Apochromat 40x/1.4 N.A. oil immersion objective was used. Images were acquired with the following settings: 512 × 512 pixels, 16-bit depth, 18 z-slices separated by 0.6 μm, ~16.8 s/frame time-resolution. The fluorescence of GFP, mCherry, and eBFP2 was excited using 488-, 561-, and 405-nm lasers, respectively. Excitation power was measured and calibrated using X-Cite XR2100/XP750 Optical Power Measurement System (EXCELITAS Technologies) to keep the same experimental setting for each set of experiments. Image acquisition was started before the end of nc13 and ended after the onset of gastrulation at nc14. During imaging, data acquisition was occasionally stopped for a few seconds to correct the z-position. Obtained data were concatenated and cropped into 430 × 512 pixels (sna shadow enhancer), 430 × 430 pixels (Ubx BRE), 300 × 512 pixels (rho NEE), or 300 × 350 pixels (hairy enhancer) to remove nuclei outside of the expression domain. One hundred eighty timeframes starting from the entry into nc14 as defined by the progression of prior anaphase were used for subsequent image analysis. The temperature was kept between 22.0 to 23.0 °C during imaging.
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Publication 2023
Anaphase Cell Nucleus Disease Progression Embryo Fluorescence Gastrulation Hair Microscopy, Confocal Neoplasm Metastasis Reading Frames Submersion
Xenopus laevis oocytes were collected using the in vitro fertilization technique. Ovulation of the female frog was previously induced by subcutaneous injection of the hormone Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG). 48 h before fertilization (pre-prime), the female was injected with 50 units of hCG. 24 h later the female was injected again with 250–300 units of hCG (prime). Embryos were maintained in Marc’s modified Ringer’s solution (10% MMR, pH 7.4), containing 1 M NaCl, 20 mM KCl, 10 mM MgSO4, 20 mM CaCl2, and 50 mM HEPES. The male gonads were obtained through abdominal dissection. The testes were stored in 1× MMR medium supplemented with 20% FBS. 12 h after the second injection of hCG, the oocytes were collected in 1× MMR solution, later they were fertilized with X. laevis testis extract and incubated for 1 h at room temperature in 10% MMR solution. Afterward, the medium was replaced by a 2% cysteine solution in 10% MMR, pH 7.8–7.9 for 5 min, to dissolve the gelatinous layer “degelatinization” [22 (link)]. Subsequently, the embryos were washed and incubated in 10% MMR at room temperature and finally harvested at different neurulation stages: 12.5 (early neurulation), 14 (middle neurulation), and stage 20 (late neurulation); and stage 40–45 (tadpole) [2 (link),105 ]. We observed the expression of Cxs in stages 12.5–20 and the analysis of the closure of the neural tube and morphological effects in stages 40–45. Stage 10 (gastrulation) was used as a negative control for Cxs expression and the adult brain as a positive control to validate Cxs expression in molecular biology assays.
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Publication 2023
Abdomen Adult Biological Assay Brain CCL7 protein, human Cysteine Dissection Embryo Females Fertilization Fertilization in Vitro Gastrulation Gelatins HEPES Hormones Human Chorionic Gonadotropin In Vitro Techniques Neurulation Ovulation Ovum Rana Ringer's Solution Sodium Chloride Subcutaneous Injections Sulfate, Magnesium Tadpole Testis Tube, Neural Xenopus laevis

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Gastrulation is a crucial stage of embryonic development where the embryo undergoes remarkable morphological changes, establishing the three primary germ layers: ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm.
This complex process involves cell migration, invagination, and differentiation, laying the foundation for the formation of major organ systems.
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