PUBLICATION
An essential role for Radar (Gdf6a) in inducing dorsal fate in the zebrafish retina
- Authors
- Gosse, N.J., and Baier, H.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-090204-8
- Date
- 2009
- Source
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106(7): 2236-2241 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Baier, Herwig, Gosse, Nathan
- Keywords
- patterning, eye development, ocular coloboma, bone morphogenetic protein, tectum
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Axons/metabolism
- Body Patterning
- Cell Lineage
- Codon, Terminator
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
- Growth Differentiation Factor 6/genetics*
- Growth Differentiation Factor 6/physiology*
- Models, Biological
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Retina/embryology
- Retina/metabolism*
- Signal Transduction
- Transforming Growth Factor beta/metabolism
- Zebrafish
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- Zebrafish Proteins/physiology*
- PubMed
- 19164594 Full text @ Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Citation
Gosse, N.J., and Baier, H. (2009) An essential role for Radar (Gdf6a) in inducing dorsal fate in the zebrafish retina. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106(7):2236-2241.
Abstract
Retinal ganglion cells form orderly topographic connections with the tectum, establishing a continuous neural representation of visual space. Mapping along the dorsal-ventral axis requires interactions between EphB and ephrin-B cell-surface molecules expressed as countergradients in both retina and tectum. We have discovered that the diffusible TGFbeta-related factor Radar (Gdf6a) is necessary and sufficient for activation of dorsal markers, such as Bmp4, Tbx5, Tbx2b, and Ephrin-B2, and suppression of the ventral marker Vax2 in the zebrafish retina. Radar mutant axons innervate only the dorsal half of the tectum, where they form a compressed retinotectal map. Wild-type cells transplanted into the dorsal retina are able to rescue the dorsal identity of nearby mutant cells. Moreover, Radar overexpression "dorsalizes" retinal ganglion cell identity in the ventral retina. We conclude that Radar is near the top of a signaling cascade that establishes dorsal-ventral positional information in the retina and controls the formation of the retinotectal map.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping