PUBLICATION
hnf1b genes in zebrafish hindbrain development
- Authors
- Choe, S.K., Hirsch, N., Zhang, X., and Sagerström, C.G.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-081029-2
- Date
- 2008
- Source
- Zebrafish 5(3): 179-187 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Choe, Seong-Kyu, Sagerström, Charles
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/physiology*
- Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-beta/genetics
- Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-beta/metabolism*
- Mutation
- Phylogeny
- Rhombencephalon/embryology*
- Rhombencephalon/metabolism
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 18945197 Full text @ Zebrafish
Citation
Choe, S.K., Hirsch, N., Zhang, X., and Sagerström, C.G. (2008) hnf1b genes in zebrafish hindbrain development. Zebrafish. 5(3):179-187.
Abstract
The Hnf1b transcription factor acts during formation of rhombomeres (r) 5 and 6 in the hindbrain. To determine if hnf1b is absolutely required in r5/r6, we examined the hnf1b(hi2169) and hnf1b(hi1843) retroviral insertion alleles. Hnf1b(hi2169) shows highly variable residual expression of several genes in r5/r6, but this is not due to full-length hnf1b transcripts persisting in hnf1b(hi2169) embryos, nor to hnf1bl, a novel hnf1 family member expressed in r5 that we identified. Instead, we find evidence for a virus-hnf1b fusion transcript in hnf1b(hi2169) embryos and demonstrate that morpholino-mediated knockdown of this transcript leads to near-undetectable r5 gene expression. The hnf1b(hi1843) allele has a more severe phenotype with near-undetectable expression of r5/r6 genes. We next examined if hoxb1b, which functions upstream of hnf1b in r5/r6 formation, can induce expression of r5/r6 genes in hnf1b mutants. We find that microinjected hoxb1b mRNA induces ectopic gene expression anterior to the hindbrain in hnf1b(hi2169) and hnf1b(hi1843) embryos, but cannot restore gene expression in r5/r6 of the mutants. We conclude that hnf1b(hi2169) is hypomorphic to hnf1b(hi1843) and that, while hnf1b is required for r5/r6 gene expression in the hindbrain, r5/r6 gene expression can be experimentally induced independently of hnf1b anterior to the hindbrain.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping