Hairy/E(spl)-related (Her) genes are central components of the segmentation oscillator and display redundancy with the Delta/Notch signaling pathway in the formation of anterior segmental boundaries in the zebrafish
Hairy/E(spl)-related (Her) genes are central components of the segmentation oscillator and display redundancy with the Delta/Notch signaling pathway in the formation of anterior segmental boundaries in the zebrafish
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2002
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A. Oates;R. Ho
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Metamerism of the body plan is a feature of many animal phyla. The vertebral column and ribs are the most obvious segmental structures of the adult vertebrate, and these mesodermal derivatives, as well as associated muscle and dermis, develop from segmental units of embryonic mesoderm called somites. Somites are clusters of cells that form in an anterior-to-posterior order along both sides of the embryonic body axis by a serial mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition of the presomitic, paraxial mesoderm. Each somite possesses a distinct rostral and caudal half, and the epithelial boundaries of somites, the intersomitic furrows, are symmetrical across the midline. The presomitic mesoderm (PSM), despite its unsegmented appearance, possesses a segmental prepattern mirrored by segmentally restricted and polarized gene expression in the anterior of the PSM, including cell adhesion molecules, muscle differentiation factors and genes of the Delta/Notch signaling pathway. Some Delta/Notch genes are also expressed in dynamic striped patterns that lack segmental polarity in more posterior regions of the PSM and tailbud. Indeed, Delta/Notch signaling appears to have an important role in controlling vertebrate somitogenesis. In mouse and z brafish, mutations in genes coding for cell surface ligands of the Delta family (Bulman et al., 2000; Holley et al., 2000; Hrabe de Angelis et al., 1997; Kusumi et al., 1998), in transmembrane receptors of the Notch family (Conlon et al., 1995; Krebs et al., 2000) or in components of the signal transduction pathway from the Notch receptor (Donoviel et al., 1999; Evrard et al., 1998; Oka et al., 1995; Shen et al., 1997; Wong et al., 1997; Zhang and Gridley, 1998) result in aberrant somitogenesis. These defects are visible as irregularly shaped somites with bilaterally asymmetrical boundaries and a loss of rostrocaudal polarity within each somite. An important feature of these mutant phenotypes is that as increasingly posterior somites are made, the severity of the defects increases. In Drosophila and vertebrates, Delta/Notch signaling is modulated by the glycosyltransferase activity encoded by the 2929 Development 129, 2929-2946 (2002) Printed in Great Britain © The Company of Biologists Limited 2002 DEV2854