PUBLICATION
Moz-dependent Hox expression controls segment-specific fate maps of skeletal precursors in the face
- Authors
- Crump, J.G., Swartz, M.E., Eberhart, J.K., and Kimmel, C.B.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-060616-56
- Date
- 2006
- Source
- Development (Cambridge, England) 133(14): 2661-9 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Crump, Gage DeKoeyer, Eberhart, Johann, Kimmel, Charles B., Swartz, Mary
- Keywords
- Craniofacial, Skeleton, Zebrafish, Moz, Hox, Morphogenesis
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Body Patterning*
- Cartilage/embryology
- Cartilage/physiology
- Facial Bones*/anatomy & histology
- Facial Bones*/embryology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Germ Layers/physiology
- Histone Acetyltransferases/genetics
- Histone Acetyltransferases/metabolism*
- Homeodomain Proteins/genetics
- Homeodomain Proteins/metabolism*
- Maxillofacial Development/physiology*
- Neural Crest/cytology
- Neural Crest/physiology
- Phenotype
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Rhombencephalon/physiology
- Signal Transduction/physiology
- Zebrafish*/anatomy & histology
- Zebrafish*/embryology
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 16774997 Full text @ Development
Citation
Crump, J.G., Swartz, M.E., Eberhart, J.K., and Kimmel, C.B. (2006) Moz-dependent Hox expression controls segment-specific fate maps of skeletal precursors in the face. Development (Cambridge, England). 133(14):2661-9.
Abstract
Development of the facial skeleton depends on interactions between intrinsic factors in the skeletal precursors and extrinsic signals in the facial environment. Hox genes have been proposed to act cell-intrinsically in skeletogenic cranial neural crest cells (CNC) for skeletal pattern. However, Hox genes are also expressed in other facial tissues, such as the ectoderm and endoderm, suggesting that Hox genes could also regulate extrinsic signalling from non-CNC tissues. Here we study moz mutant zebrafish in which hoxa2b and hoxb2a expression is lost and the support skeleton of the second pharyngeal segment is transformed into a duplicate of the first-segment-derived jaw skeleton. By performing tissue mosaic experiments between moz(-) and wild-type embryos, we show that Moz and Hox genes function in CNC, but not in the ectoderm or endoderm, to specify the support skeleton. How then does Hox expression within CNC specify a support skeleton at the cellular level? Our fate map analysis of skeletal precursors reveals that Moz specifies a second-segment fate map in part by regulating the interaction of CNC with the first endodermal pouch (p1). Removal of p1, either by laser ablation or in the itga5(b926) mutant, reveals that p1 epithelium is required for development of the wild-type support but not the moz(-) duplicate jaw-like skeleton. We present a model in which Moz-dependent Hox expression in CNC shapes the normal support skeleton by instructing second-segment CNC to undergo skeletogenesis in response to local extrinsic signals.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping