BMP-2/-4 and Wnt-8 cooperatively pattern the Xenopus mesoderm

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作者
Hoppler, S
Moon, RT [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Washington, Sch Med, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[2] Univ Washington, Sch Med, Dept Pharmacol, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
关键词
Xenopus; BMP-2/-4; Wnt-8;
D O I
10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00004-5
中图分类号
Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Establishment of the dorsoventral axis is central to animal embryonic organization. In Xenopus two different classes of signaling molecules function in the dorsoventral patterning of the mesoderm. Both the TGF-beta-related products of the BMP-2 and BMP-4 genes and the Wnt molecule encoded by Xenopus Wnt-8 specify ventral fate and appear to inhibit dorsal mesodermal development. The similar functions of these molecularly very different classes of signaling molecules prompted us to study their mutual regulation and to closely compare their roles in mesoderm patterning. We find that Wnt-8 and BMP-4 are indistinguishable in their abilities to induce expression of ventral genes. Although BMP-2/-4 signaling regulates Wnt-8 expression, these genes do not function in a linear pathway because Wnt-8 overexpression cannot compensate for an inhibition of BMP-2/-4 function, but rather BMP-4 overexpression rescues ventral gene expression in embryos with inhibited Wnt-8 function. We further find that Wnt-8 and BMP-2/-4 differ in their abilities to regulate dorsal gene expression. While BMP4 appears to generally inhibit the expression of dorsal genes, Xenopus Wnt-8 only inhibits the expression of the notochord marker Xnot. Whereas the inhibitory effect of BMP-2/-4 localizes dorsal mesodermal fate, our results suggest that Xenopus Wnt-8 functions in the further patterning of the dorsal mesoderm into the most dorsal sector from which the notochord develops and the dorsolateral sector from where the somites differentiate. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
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