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Tissue-Specific Requirements For Specific Domains In The Ferm Protein Moe/Epb4.1l5 During Early Zebrafish Development, Abigail Jensen, A. K. Christensen
Tissue-Specific Requirements For Specific Domains In The Ferm Protein Moe/Epb4.1l5 During Early Zebrafish Development, Abigail Jensen, A. K. Christensen
Abigail Jensen
Background The FERM domain containing protein Mosaic Eyes (Moe) interacts with Crumbs proteins, which are important regulators of apical identity and size. In zebrafish, loss-of-function mutations in moe result in defects in brain ventricle formation, retinal pigmented epithelium and neural retinal development, pericardial edema, and tail curvature. In humans and mice, there are two major alternately spliced isoforms of the Moe orthologue, Erythrocyte Protein Band 4.1-Like 5 (Epb4.1l5), which we have named Epb4.1l5long and Epb4.1l5short, that differ after the FERM domain. Interestingly, Moe and both Epb4.1l5 isoforms have a putative C' terminal Type-I PDZ-Binding Domain (PBD). We previously showed that …