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Development, Vol 122, Issue 4 1175-1185, Copyright © 1996 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
AP Davis and MR Capecchi
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84112, USA.
Using gene targeting in mice, we have undertaken a systematic mutational analysis of the homeobox-containing 5' HoxD genes. In particular, we have characterized the limb defects observed in mice with independent targeted disruptions of hoxd-12 and hoxd-13. Animals defective for hoxd-12 are viable, fertile, and appear outwardly normal yet have minor autopodal defects in the forelimb which include a reduction in the bone length of metacarpals and phalanges, and a malformation of the distal carpal bone d4. The limb phenotypes observed in hoxd-13 mutant mice are more extensive, including strong reductions in length, complete absences, or improper segmentations of many metacarpal and phalangeal bones. Additionally, the d4 carpal bone is not properly formed and often produces an extra rudimentary digit. To examine the genetic interactions between the 5' HoxD genes, we bred these mutant strains with each other and with our previously characterized hoxd-11 mouse to produce a series of trans-heterozygotes. Skeletal analyses of these mice reveal that these genes interact in the formation of the vertebrate limb, since the trans-heterozygotes display phenotypes not present in the individual heterozygotes, including more severe carpal, metacarpal and phalangeal defects. Some of these phenotypes appear to be accounted for by a delay in the ossification events in the autopod, which lead to either the failure of fusion or the elimination of cartilaginous elements. Characteristically, these mutations lead to the overall truncation of digits II and V on the forelimb. Additionally, some trans-animals show the growth of an extra postaxial digit VI, which is composed of a bony element resembling a phalange. The results demonstrate that these genes interact in the formation of the limb. In addition to the previously characterized paralogous interactions, a multitude of interactions between Hox genes is used to finely sculpt the forelimb. The 5' Hox genes could therefore act as a major permissive genetic milieu that has been exploited by evolutionary adaptation to form the tetrapod limbs.
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