PUBLICATION
Maternally supplied smad5 is required for ventral specification in zebrafish embryos prior to zygotic bmp signaling
- Authors
- Kramer, C., Mayr, T., Nowak, M., Schumacher, J., Runke, G., Bauer, H., Wagner, D., Schmid, B., Imai, Y., Talbot, W., Mullins, M., and Hammerschmidt, M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-021016-11
- Date
- 2002
- Source
- Developmental Biology 250(2): 263-279 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Bauer, Hermann, Hammerschmidt, Matthias, Imai, Yoshiyuki, Mayr, Thomas, Mullins, Mary C., Nowak, Matthias, Runke, Greg, Schmid, Bettina, Schumacher, Jennifer, Talbot, William S., Wagner, Daniel
- Keywords
- Smad5; Bmp2b; Bmp7; dorsoventral patterning; maternal effect; enhancer screen; zebrafish; body size; oogenesis
- MeSH Terms
-
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Body Patterning/genetics
- Body Patterning/physiology
- Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2
- Bone Morphogenetic Protein 7
- Bone Morphogenetic Proteins/genetics*
- Bone Morphogenetic Proteins/physiology*
- DNA/genetics
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics*
- DNA-Binding Proteins/physiology*
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic
- Female
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Homozygote
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Oogenesis/genetics
- Oogenesis/physiology
- Phenotype
- Phosphoproteins/genetics*
- Phosphoproteins/physiology*
- RNA Stability/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Signal Transduction
- Smad5 Protein
- Trans-Activators/genetics*
- Trans-Activators/physiology*
- Transforming Growth Factor beta*
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Zebrafish/physiology
- Zebrafish Proteins*
- Zygote/growth & development
- PubMed
- 12376102 Full text @ Dev. Biol.
Citation
Kramer, C., Mayr, T., Nowak, M., Schumacher, J., Runke, G., Bauer, H., Wagner, D., Schmid, B., Imai, Y., Talbot, W., Mullins, M., and Hammerschmidt, M. (2002) Maternally supplied smad5 is required for ventral specification in zebrafish embryos prior to zygotic bmp signaling. Developmental Biology. 250(2):263-279.
Abstract
We have previously shown that the maternal effect dorsalization of zebrafish embryos from sbndtc24 heterozygous mothers is caused by a dominant negative mutation in Smad5, a transducer of ventralizing signaling by the bone morphogenetic proteins Bmp2b and Bmp7. Since sbndtc24 mutant Smad5 protein not only blocks wild-type Smad5, but also other family members like Smad1, it remained open to what extent Smad5 itself is required for dorsoventral patterning. Here, we report the identification of novel smad5 alleles: three new isolates coming from a dominant enhancer screen, and four former isolates initially assigned to the cpt and pgy complementation groups. Overexpression analyses demonstrate that three of the new alleles, m169, fr5, and tc227, are true nulls (amorphs), whereas the initial dtc24 allele is both antimorphic and hypomorphic. We rescued m169 mutant embryos by smad5 mRNA injection. Although adult mutants are smaller than their siblings, the eggs laid by m169-/- females are larger than normal eggs. Embryos lacking maternal Smad5 function (Mm169-/- embryos) are even more strongly dorsalized than bmp2b or bmp7 null mutants. They do not respond to injected bmp2b mRNA, indicating that Smad5 is absolutely essential for ventral development and Bmp2/7 signaling. Most importantly, Mm169-/- embryos display reduced bmp7 mRNA levels during blastula stages, when bmp2b and bmp7 mutants are still normal. This indicates that maternally supplied Smad5 is already required to mediate ventral specification prior to zygotic Bmp2/7 signaling to establish the initial dorsoventral asymmetry.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping