Abstract：
:During vertebrate eye development, the expression of the homeobox gene Six6 is restricted to the neural retina and is initiated later than Rx and Pax6 in the presumptive retina field. We show here that overexpression of mouse Six6 in Xenopus embryos can induce transformation of competent tissue of the anterior neural plate into retinal tissue. In Six6 injected embryos, the molecular identity of the presumptive midbrain and rostral hindbrain regions was lost, as shown by the absence of XEn-2 and Xpax2 expression, being replaced by the ectopic expression of the retinal markers Xpax6 and Xrx. When allowed to grow further, Six6 injected embryos developed ectopic eye-like structures in the rostral brain and showed a transformation of the midbrain into retina. Similar results were obtained upon overexpression of Six3 or Xsix3, revealing a possible redundance of Six3 and Six6 activities. Taken together, results obtained suggest that during normal retina development, the relatively late expressed Six6 gene becomes part of a network of retinal homeobox genes that are linked together by positive feedback loops. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that the primitive neural ectoderm of the future midbrain and rostral hindbrain is competent to form retinal tissue.
journal_name
Mech Devjournal_title
Mechanisms of developmentauthors
Bernier G,Panitz F,Zhou X,Hollemann T,Gruss P,Pieler Tdoi
10.1016/s0925-4773(00)00271-9subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2000-05-01 00:00:00pages
59-69issue
1-2eissn
0925-4773issn
1872-6356pii
S0925477300002719journal_volume
93pub_type
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