PUBLICATION
Hedgehog signalling acts upstream of Laminin alpha1 transcription in the zebrafish paraxial mesoderm
- Authors
- Pickering, J., Cunliffe, V.T., Van Eeden, F., Borycki, A.G.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-161120-14
- Date
- 2017
- Source
- Matrix biology : journal of the International Society for Matrix Biology 62: 58-74 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Cunliffe, Vincent, van Eeden, Freek
- Keywords
- Embryo, Hedgehog signalling, Laminin, Zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Binding Sites
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Hedgehog Proteins/metabolism*
- Introns
- Laminin/chemistry
- Laminin/genetics*
- Laminin/metabolism
- Mesoderm/growth & development*
- Mesoderm/metabolism
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Signal Transduction*
- Transcription, Genetic*
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish/growth & development*
- Zebrafish/metabolism
- Zebrafish Proteins/chemistry
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 27856309 Full text @ Matrix Biol.
Citation
Pickering, J., Cunliffe, V.T., Van Eeden, F., Borycki, A.G. (2017) Hedgehog signalling acts upstream of Laminin alpha1 transcription in the zebrafish paraxial mesoderm. Matrix biology : journal of the International Society for Matrix Biology. 62:58-74.
Abstract
Laminin-111 (α1β1γ1) is a member of the Laminin family of extra-cellular matrix proteins that comprises 16 members, components of basement membranes. Laminin-111, one of the first Laminin proteins synthesised during embryogenesis, is required for basement membrane deposition and has essential roles in tissue morphogenesis and patterning. Yet, the mechanisms controlling Laminin-111 expression are poorly understood. We generated a zebrafish transgenic reporter line that reproduces faithfully the expression pattern of lama1, the gene encoding Laminin α1, and we used this reporter line to investigate lama1 transcriptional regulation. Our findings established that lama1 expression is controlled by intronic enhancers, including an enhancer directing expression in the paraxial mesoderm, anterior spinal cord and hindbrain, located in intron 1. We show that Hedgehog signalling is necessary and sufficient for lama1 transcription in the paraxial mesoderm and identify putative Gli/Zic binding sites that may mediate this control. These findings uncover a conserved role for Hedgehog signalling in the control of basement membrane assembly via its transcriptional regulation of lama1, and provide a mechanism to coordinate muscle cell fate specification in the zebrafish embryo.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping