PUBLICATION
Identification of a distant cis-regulatory element controlling pharyngeal arch-specific expression of zebrafish gdf6a/radar
- Authors
- Reed, N.P., and Mortlock, D.P.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-100309-17
- Date
- 2010
- Source
- Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists 239(4): 1047-1060 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Mortlock, Douglas P.
- Keywords
- gdf6a, radar, conservation, enhancer, pharyngeal arches
- MeSH Terms
-
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid/genetics
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid/physiology*
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Branchial Region/embryology
- Branchial Region/metabolism*
- Sequence Homology
- Base Sequence
- Growth Differentiation Factor 6/genetics*
- Cloning, Molecular
- Humans
- Animals
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Takifugu/embryology
- Takifugu/genetics
- Organ Specificity/genetics
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- PubMed
- 20201106 Full text @ Dev. Dyn.
Citation
Reed, N.P., and Mortlock, D.P. (2010) Identification of a distant cis-regulatory element controlling pharyngeal arch-specific expression of zebrafish gdf6a/radar. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 239(4):1047-1060.
Abstract
Skeletal formation is an essential and intricately regulated part of vertebrate development. Humans and mice deficient in growth and differentiation factor 6 (Gdf6) have numerous skeletal abnormalities, including joint fusions and cartilage reductions. The expression of Gdf6 is dynamic and in part regulated by distant evolutionarily conserved cis-regulatory elements. radar/gdf6a is a zebrafish ortholog of Gdf6 and has an essential role in embryonic patterning. Here, we show that radar is transcribed in the cells surrounding and between the developing cartilages of the ventral pharyngeal arches, similar to mouse Gdf6. A 312 bp evolutionarily conserved region (ECR5), 122 kilobases downstream, drives expression in a pharyngeal arch-specific manner similar to endogenous radar/gdf6a. Deletion analysis identified a 78 bp region within ECR5 that is essential for transgene activity. This work illustrates that radar is regulated in the pharyngeal arches by a distant conserved element and suggests radar has similar functions in skeletal development in fish and mammals.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping