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First published online March 1, 2004
doi: 10.1242/10.1242/dev.01009
1 The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, PCTB 818, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
2 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, The Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, PCTB 818, Baltimore, MD 21205,
USA
3 Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
725 North Wolfe Street, PCTB 818, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
4 The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: rreed{at}jhmi.edu)
Accepted 25 November 2003
The mammalian Olf1/EBF (O/E) family of repeated helix-loop-helix (rHLH) transcription factors has been implicated in olfactory system gene regulation, nervous system development and B-cell differentiation. Ebf (O/E1) mutant animals showed defects in B-cell lineage and brain regions where it is the only O/E family member expressed, but the olfactory epithelium appeared unaffected and olfactory marker expression was grossly normal in these animals. In order to further study the mammalian O/E proteins, we disrupted O/E2 and O/E3 genes in mouse and placed tau-lacZ and tau-GFP reporter genes under the control of the respective endogenous O/E promoters. Mice mutant for each of these genes display reduced viability and other gene-specific phenotypes. Interestingly, both O/E2 and O/E3 knockout mice as well as O/E2/O/E3 double heterozygous animals share a common phenotype: olfactory neurons (ORN) fail to project to dorsal olfactory bulb. We suggest that a decreased dose of O/E protein may alter expression of O/E target genes and underlie the ORN projection defect.
Key words: Olfactory, Axon targeting, Transcription factor
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