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Development, Vol 122, Issue 2 543-554, Copyright © 1996 by Company of Biologists
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S Nonchev, C Vesque, M Maconochie, T Seitanidou, L Ariza-McNaughton, M Frain, H Marshall, MH Sham, R Krumlauf and P Charnay
Division of Developmental Neurobiology, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK.
The hindbrain is a segmented structure divided into repeating metameric units termed rhombomeres (r). The Hox family, vertebrate homologs of the Drosophila HOM-C homeotic selector genes, are expressed in rhombomere-restricted patterns and are believed to participate in regulating segmental identities. Krox-20, a zinc finger gene, has a highly conserved pattern of expression in r3 and r5 and is functionally required for their maintenance in mouse embryos. Krox-20 has been shown to directly regulate the Hoxb-2 gene and we wanted to determine if it was involved in regulating multiple Hox genes as a part of its functional role. Hoxa-2 is the only known paralog of Hoxb-2, and we examined the patterns of expression of the mouse Hoxa-2 gene with particular focus on r3 and r5 in wild type and Krox-20-/- mutant embryos. There was a clear loss of expression in r3, which indicated that Hoxa-2 was downstream of Krox-20. Using transgenic analysis with E. coli lacZ reporter genes we have identified and mapped an r3/r5 enhancer in the 5' flanking region of the Hoxa-2 gene. Deletion analysis narrowed this region to an 809 bp Bg/II fragment, and in vitro binding and competition assays with bacterially expressed Krox-20 protein identified two sites within the enhancer. Mutation of these Krox-20 sites in the regulatory region specifically abolished r3/r5 activity, but did not affect neural crest and mesodermal components. This indicated that the two Krox-20 sites are required in vivo for enhancer function. Furthermore, ectopic expression of Krox-20 in r4 was able to transactivate the Hoxa 2/lacZ reporter in this rhombomere. Together our findings suggest that Krox-20 directly participates in the transcriptional regulation of Hoxa-2 during hindbrain segmentation, and is responsible for the upregulation of the r3 and r5 domains of expression of both vertebrate group 2 Hox paralogs. Therefore, the segmental phenotypes in the Krox-20 mutants are likely to reflect the role of Krox-20 in directly regulating multiple Hox genes.
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