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Development ; 128(19): 3855-66, 2001 Oct.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11585810

ABSTRACT

Little is known about the genesis and patterning of tendons and other connective tissues, mostly owing to the absence of early markers. We have found that Scleraxis, a bHLH transcription factor, is a highly specific marker for all the connective tissues that mediate attachment of muscle to bone in chick and mouse, including the limb tendons, and show that early scleraxis expression marks the progenitor cell populations for these tissues. In the early limb bud, the tendon progenitor population is found in the superficial proximomedial mesenchyme. Using the scleraxis gene as a marker we show that these progenitors are induced by ectodermal signals and restricted by bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling within the mesenchyme. Application of Noggin protein antagonizes this endogenous BMP activity and induces ectopic scleraxis expression. However, the presence of excess tendon progenitors does not lead to the production of additional or longer tendons, indicating that additional signals are required for the final formation of a tendon. Finally, we show that the endogenous expression of noggin within the condensing digit cartilage contributes to the induction of distal tendons.


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Tendons/cytology , Tendons/embryology , Transcription Factors/metabolism , Animals , Avian Proteins , Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors , Biomarkers , Bone Morphogenetic Proteins/metabolism , Carrier Proteins , Chick Embryo , Connective Tissue/embryology , Connective Tissue/metabolism , Ectoderm/metabolism , Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental , Limb Buds/cytology , Limb Buds/metabolism , Proteins/metabolism , Signal Transduction , Stem Cells/metabolism , Tendons/metabolism , Transcription Factors/genetics
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Genetics ; 154(4): 1649-62, 2000 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10747060

ABSTRACT

RNAs are localized by microtubule-based pathways to both the anterior and posterior poles of the developing Drosophila oocyte. We describe a new gene, wispy, required for localization of mRNAs to both poles of the egg. Embryos from wispy mothers arrest development after abnormal oocyte meiosis and failure of pronuclei to fuse. Our analysis of spindle and chromosome movements during meiosis reveals defects in spindle structures correlated with very high frequencies of chromosome nondisjunction and loss. Spindle defects include abnormally shaped spindles, spindle spurs, and ectopic spindles associated with lost chromosomes, as well as mispositioning of the meiosis II spindles. The polar body nuclei do not associate with their normal monastral arrays of microtubules, the sperm aster is reduced in size, and the centrosomes often dissociate from a mitotic spindle that forms in association with the male pronucleus. We show that wispy is required to recruit or maintain known centrosomal proteins with two types of microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs): (1) the central MTOC that forms between the meiosis II tandem spindles and (2) the centrosomes of the mitotic spindle. We propose that the wispy gene product functions directly in several microtubule-based events in meiosis and early embryogenesis and speculate about its possible mode of action.


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Drosophila/genetics , Meiosis/genetics , Microtubules/metabolism , RNA, Messenger/metabolism , Animals , Drosophila/cytology , Drosophila/embryology , Embryonic Development , Male , RNA, Messenger/genetics
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J Miss State Med Assoc ; 8(9): 542-8, 1967 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-6065506
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