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Development, Vol 128, Issue 6 849-858, Copyright © 2001 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
H Bauer, Z Lele, GJ Rauch, R Geisler and M Hammerschmidt
Hans-Spemann Laboratory, Max-Planck Institut fur Immunbiologie, Stuebeweg 51, D-79108 Freiburg, Germany.
Ventral specification of mesoderm and ectoderm depends on signaling by members of the bone morphogenetic protein (Bmp) family. Bmp signals are transmitted by a complex of type I and type II serine/threonine kinase transmembrane receptors. Here, we show that Alk8, a novel member of the Alk1 subgroup of type I receptors, is disrupted in zebrafish lost-a-fin (laf) mutants. Two alk8/laf null alleles are described. In laf(tm110), a conserved extracellular cysteine residue is replaced by an arginine, while in laf(m100), Alk8 is prematurely terminated directly after the transmembrane domain. The zygotic effect of both mutations leads to dorsalization of intermediate strength. A much stronger dorsalization, similar to that of bmp2b/swirl and bmp7/snailhouse mutants, however, is obtained by inhibiting both maternally and zygotically supplied alk8 gene products with morpholino antisense oligonucleotides. The phenotype of laf mutants and alk8 morphants can be rescued by injected mRNA encoding Alk8 or the Bmp-regulated transcription factor Smad5, but not by mRNA encoding Bmp2b or Bmp7. Conversely, injected mRNA encoding a constitutively active version of Alk8 can rescue the strong dorsalization of bmp2b/swirl and bmp7/snailhouse mutants, whereas smad5/somitabun mutant embryos do not respond. Altogether, the data suggest that Alk8 acts as a Bmp2b/7 receptor upstream of Smad5.
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