サイキ マルコフ カテイ ノ ヘイコウ ソクド ニ ツイテ

Osaka Journal of Mathematics,15(2),283-310,197

ROCK-I regulates closure of the eyelids and ventral body wall by inducing assembly of actomyosin bundles

Rho-associated kinase (ROCK) I mediates signaling from Rho to the actin cytoskeleton. To investigate the in vivo functions of ROCK-I, we generated ROCK-I–deficient mice. Loss of ROCK-I resulted in failure of eyelid closure and closure of the ventral body wall, which gave rise to the eyes open at birth and omphalocele phenotypes in neonates. Most ROCK-I−/− mice died soon after birth as a result of cannibalization of the omphalocele by the mother. Actin cables that encircle the eye in the epithelial cells of the eyelid were disorganized and accumulation of filamentous actin at the umbilical ring was impaired, with loss of phosphorylation of the myosin regulatory light chain (MLC) at both sites, in ROCK-I−/− embryos. Stress fiber formation and MLC phosphorylation induced by EGF were also attenuated in primary keratinocytes from ROCK-I−/− mice. These results suggest that ROCK-I regulates closure of the eyelids and ventral body wall through organization of actomyosin bundles

ジクウ キョクメン デ トクイ ニ ヘンドウ スル カクサン カテイ ノ ケンキュウ

本研究の目的は、時間的に一様でない場合の拡散過程の挙動、特に時間と共に変動する変動する領域への到達可能性について調べる事及び到達した後の境界上での挙動について調べる事であった