PUBLICATION
A 190 base pair, TGF-β responsive tooth and fin enhancer is required for stickleback Bmp6 expression
- Authors
- Erickson, P.A., Cleves, P.A., Ellis, N.A., Schwalbach, K.T., Hart, J.C., Miller, C.T.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-150304-4
- Date
- 2015
- Source
- Developmental Biology 401(2): 310-23 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Miller, Craig T., Schwalbach, Kevin
- Keywords
- Bmp6, Bone Morphogenetic Protein, Enhancer, Stickleback, TGFß, Tooth development, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animal Fins/embryology
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Base Sequence
- Benzamides/pharmacology
- Binding Sites/genetics
- Bone Morphogenetic Protein 6/biosynthesis
- Bone Morphogenetic Protein 6/genetics*
- Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial/genetics
- Conserved Sequence/genetics
- Dioxoles/pharmacology
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic/genetics*
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/genetics
- Heterocyclic Compounds, 3-Ring/pharmacology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Odontogenesis/genetics
- Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta/genetics*
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Smad3 Protein/genetics
- Smad3 Protein/metabolism
- Smegmamorpha/embryology*
- Smegmamorpha/genetics
- Tooth/embryology
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/genetics
- PubMed
- 25732776 Full text @ Dev. Biol.
Citation
Erickson, P.A., Cleves, P.A., Ellis, N.A., Schwalbach, K.T., Hart, J.C., Miller, C.T. (2015) A 190 base pair, TGF-β responsive tooth and fin enhancer is required for stickleback Bmp6 expression. Developmental Biology. 401(2):310-23.
Abstract
The ligands of the Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) family of developmental signaling molecules are often under the control of complex cis-regulatory modules and play diverse roles in vertebrate development and evolution. Here, we investigated the cis-regulatory control of stickleback Bmp6. We identified a 190bp enhancer ~2.5 kilobases 5' of the Bmp6 gene that recapitulates expression in developing teeth and fins, with a core 72bp sequence that is sufficient for both domains. By testing orthologous enhancers with varying degrees of sequence conservation from outgroup teleosts in transgenic reporter gene assays in sticklebacks and zebrafish, we found that the function of this regulatory element appears to have been conserved for over 250 million years of teleost evolution. We show that a predicted binding site for the TGFß effector Smad3 in this enhancer is required for enhancer function and that pharmacological inhibition of TGFß signaling abolishes enhancer activity and severely reduces endogenous Bmp6 expression. Finally, we used TALENs to disrupt the enhancer in vivo and find that Bmp6 expression is dramatically reduced in teeth and fins, suggesting this enhancer is necessary for expression of the Bmp6 locus. This work identifies a relatively short regulatory sequence that is required for expression in multiple tissues and, combined with previous work, suggests that shared regulatory networks control limb and tooth development.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping