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First published online 16 June 2004
doi: 10.1242/dev.01251
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1 Developmental Genetics, Dept. of Clinical-Biological Sciences (DKBW),
University of Basel Medical School, c/o Anatomy Institute, Pestalozzistrasse
20, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
2 Department of Developmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8,
NL-3584CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
3 Transgenic Service, EMBL, Meyerhofstrasse 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
4 Department of Histology, Anatomy Institute, Pestalozzistrasse 20, CH-4056
Basel, Switzerland
Author for correspondence (e-mail:
aimee.zuniga{at}unibas.ch)
Accepted 5 May 2004
Epithelial-mesenchymal feedback signaling is the key to diverse organogenetic processes such as limb bud development and branching morphogenesis in kidney and lung rudiments. This study establishes that the BMP antagonist gremlin (Grem1) is essential to initiate these epithelial-mesenchymal signaling interactions during limb and metanephric kidney organogenesis. A Grem1 null mutation in the mouse generated by gene targeting causes neonatal lethality because of the lack of kidneys and lung septation defects. In early limb buds, mesenchymal Grem1 is required to establish a functional apical ectodermal ridge and the epithelial-mesenchymal feedback signaling that propagates the sonic hedgehog morphogen. Furthermore, Grem1-mediated BMP antagonism is essential to induce metanephric kidney development as initiation of ureter growth, branching and establishment of RET/GDNF feedback signaling are disrupted in Grem1-deficient embryos. As a consequence, the metanephric mesenchyme is eliminated by apoptosis, in the same way as the core mesenchymal cells of the limb bud.
Key words: BMP antagonism, Grem1, Gremlin, Kidney, Limb bud, Mouse, Organogenesis
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