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doi: 10.1242/10.1242/dev.00339
1 Institute of Neuroscience, 1254 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403,
USA
2 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Programs in Developmental
Biology, Genetics and Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco,
CA 94143, USA
* Present address: Department of Developmental Biology, Beckman Center B300, 279
Campus Drive, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5329,
USA
Present address: Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute, NYU
School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Author for correspondence (e-mail:
ctm{at}stanford.edu)
Accepted 10 December 2002
A conserved endothelin 1 signaling pathway patterns the jaw and other pharyngeal skeletal elements in mice, chicks and zebrafish. In zebrafish, endothelin 1 (edn1 or sucker) is required for formation of ventral cartilages and joints in the anterior pharyngeal arches of young larvae. Here we present genetic analyses in the zebrafish of two edn1 downstream targets, the bHLH transcription factor Hand2 and the homeobox transcription factor Bapx1, that mediate dorsoventral (DV) patterning in the anterior pharyngeal arches.
First we show that edn1-expressing cells in the first (mandibular) and second (hyoid) pharyngeal arch primordia are located most ventrally and surrounded by hand2-expressing cells. Next we show that along the DV axis of the early first arch primordia, bapx1 is expressed in an intermediate domain, which later marks the jaw joint, and this expression requires edn1 function. bapx1 function is required for formation of the jaw joint, the joint-associated retroarticular process of Meckel's cartilage, and the retroarticular bone. Jaw joint expression of chd and gdf5 also requires bapx1 function.
Similar to edn1, hand2 is required for ventral pharyngeal cartilage formation. However, the early ventral arch edn1-dependent expression of five genes (dlx3, EphA3, gsc, msxe and msxb) are all present in hand2 mutants. Further, msxe and msxb are upregulated in hand2 mutant ventral arches. Slightly later, an edn1-dependent ventral first arch expression domain of gsc is absent in hand2 mutants, providing a common downstream target of edn1 and hand2. In hand2 mutants, bapx1 expression is present at the joint region, and expanded ventrally. In addition, expression of eng2, normally restricted to first arch dorsal mesoderm, expands ventrally in hand2 and edn1 mutants. Thus, ventral pharyngeal specification involves repression of dorsal and intermediate (joint region) fates. Together our results reveal two critical edn1 effectors that pattern the vertebrate jaw: hand2 specifies ventral pharyngeal cartilage of the lower jaw and bapx1 specifies the jaw joint.
Key words: Zebrafish, endothelin 1, hand2, bapx1, Joints, Jaw, Pharynx, Pharyngeal arch, Branchial arch
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