PUBLICATION
Genetic analysis of a Hoxd-12 regulatory element reveals global versus local modes of controls in the HoxD complex
- Authors
- Herault, Y., Beckers, J., Kondo, T., Fraudeau, N., and Duboule, D.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-980601-12
- Date
- 1998
- Source
- Development (Cambridge, England) 125: 1669-1677 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Beckers, Johannes, Duboule, Denis
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Extremities/embryology*
- Forelimb/abnormalities
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/genetics*
- Genes, Homeobox/genetics
- Hindlimb/abnormalities
- Homeodomain Proteins/genetics*
- Homeodomain Proteins/physiology
- Limb Buds/chemistry
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid/genetics*
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Transcription Factors/genetics*
- PubMed
- 9521905 Full text @ Development
Citation
Herault, Y., Beckers, J., Kondo, T., Fraudeau, N., and Duboule, D. (1998) Genetic analysis of a Hoxd-12 regulatory element reveals global versus local modes of controls in the HoxD complex. Development (Cambridge, England). 125:1669-1677.
Abstract
Vertebrate Hoxd genes are essential determinants of limb morphogenesis. In order to understand the genetic control of their complex expression patterns, we have used a combined approach involving interspecies sequence alignments in parallel with transgenic analyses, followed by in vivo mutagenesis. Here, we report on the identification of a regulatory element that is located in the vicinity of the Hoxd-12 gene. While this element is well conserved in tetrapods, little sequence similarity was scored when compared to the cognate fish DNA. The regulatory potential of this region XI (RXI) was first assayed in the context of a Hoxd-12/lacZ reporter transgene and shown to direct reporter gene expression in posterior limb buds. A deletion of this region was generated by targeted mutagenesis in ES cells and introduced into mice. Analyses of animals homozygous for the HoxDRXI mutant allele revealed the function of this region in controlling Hoxd-12 expression in the presumptive posterior zeugopod where it genetically interacts with Hoxa-11. Downregulation of Hoxd-12 expression was also detected in the trunk suggesting that RXI may mediate a rather general function in the activation of Hoxd-12. These results support a model whereby global as well as local regulatory influences are necessary to build up the complex expression patterns of Hoxd genes during limb development.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping