PUBLICATION
Zebrafish Dmrta2 regulates neurogenesis in the telencephalon
- Authors
- Yoshizawa, A., Nakahara, Y., Izawa, T., Ishitani, T., Tsutsumi, M., Kuroiwa, A., Itoh, M., and Kikuchi, Y.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-111111-14
- Date
- 2011
- Source
- Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms 16(11): 1097-1109 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Kikuchi, Yutaka
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/genetics*
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism*
- Epistasis, Genetic
- Ethylnitrosourea/chemistry
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
- Mutagenesis
- Mutation
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics*
- Neurogenesis/genetics*
- Telencephalon/embryology*
- Telencephalon/metabolism
- Transcription Factors/genetics
- Transcription Factors/metabolism*
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 22023386 Full text @ Genes Cells
Citation
Yoshizawa, A., Nakahara, Y., Izawa, T., Ishitani, T., Tsutsumi, M., Kuroiwa, A., Itoh, M., and Kikuchi, Y. (2011) Zebrafish Dmrta2 regulates neurogenesis in the telencephalon. Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms. 16(11):1097-1109.
Abstract
Although recent findings showed that some Drosophila doublesex and Caenorhabditis elegans mab-3 related genes are expressed in neural tissues during development, their functions have not been fully elucidated. Here, we isolated a zebrafish mutant, ha2, that shows defects in telencephalic neurogenesis and found that ha2 encodes Doublesex and MAB-3 related transcription factor like family A2 (Dmrta2). dmrta2 expression is restricted to the telencephalon, diencephalon and olfactory placode during somitogenesis. We found that the expression of the proneural gene, neurogenin1, in the posterior and dorsal region of telencephalon (posterior–dorsal telencephalon) is markedly reduced in this mutant at the 14-somite stage without any defects in cell proliferation or cell death. In contrast, the telencephalic expression of her6, a Hes-related gene that is known to encode a negative regulator of neurogenin1, expands dramatically in the ha2 mutant. Based on over-expression experiments and epistatic analyses, we propose that zebrafish Dmrta2 controls neurogenin1 expression by repressing her6 in the posterior–dorsal telencephalon. Furthermore, the expression domains of the telencephalic marker genes, foxg1 and emx3, and the neuronal differentiation gene, neurod, are downregulated in the ha2 posterior–dorsal telencephalon during somitogenesis. These results suggest that Dmrta2 plays important roles in the specification of the posterior–dorsal telencephalic cell fate during somitogenesis.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping