Movie 3
Confocal Z-stacks through an initiated cleft at the periphery of a wild type E13.5 SMG epithelial bud showing a gap between adjacent nuclei (cyan) and separation of E-cadherin (red) at the site of collagen IV ingression (magenta). No such clefts are evident at the epithelial surface of Btbd7 KO SMGs.
Btbd7 is essential for region-specific epithelial cell dynamics and branching morphogenesis in vivo
Development 2017. 144:2200-2211; doi: 10.1242/dev.146894