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First published online August 14, 2006
doi: 10.1242/10.1242/dev.02529

Development 133, 3419-3428 (2006)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2006
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Differential regulation of gene expression in the digit forming area of the mouse limb bud by SHH and gremlin 1/FGF-mediated epithelial-mesenchymal signalling

Lia Panman1,2,*,{dagger}, Antonella Galli1,*, Nadege Lagarde1, Odysse Michos1, Gwen Soete2,{ddagger}, Aimee Zuniga1,§ and Rolf Zeller1,§

1 Developmental Genetics, DKBW Centre for Biomedicine, University of Basel Medical School, Mattenstrasse 28, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland.
2 Department of Developmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands.

§ Joint senior authors for correspondence (e-mail: aimee.zuniga{at}unibas.ch; rolf.zeller{at}unibas.ch)

Accepted 5 July 2006

Spatially and temporally coordinated changes in gene expression are crucial to orderly progression of embryogenesis. We combine mouse genetics with experimental manipulation of signalling to analyze the kinetics by which the SHH morphogen and the BMP antagonist gremlin 1 (GREM1) control gene expression in the digit-forming mesenchyme of mouse limb buds. Although most mesenchymal cells respond rapidly to SHH signalling, the transcriptional upregulation of specific SHH target signals in the mesenchyme occurs with differential temporal kinetics and in a spatially restricted fashion. In particular, the expression of the BMP antagonist Grem1 is always upregulated in mesenchymal cells located distal to the SHH source and acts upstream of FGF signalling by the apical ectodermal ridge. GREM1/FGF-mediated feedback signalling is, in turn, required to propagate SHH and establish the presumptive digit expression domains of the Notch ligand jagged 1 (Jag1) and 5'Hoxd genes in the distal limb bud mesenchyme. Their establishment is significantly delayed in Grem1-deficient limb buds and cannot be rescued by specific restoration of SHH signalling in mutant limb buds. This shows that GREM1/FGF feedback signalling is required for regulation of the temporal kinetics of the mesenchymal response to SHH signalling. Finally, inhibition of SHH signal transduction at distinct time points reveals the differential temporal dependence of Grem1, Jag1 and 5'Hoxd gene expression on SHH signalling. In particular, the expression of Hoxd13 depends on SHH signal transduction significantly longer than does Hoxd11 expression, revealing that the reverse co-linear establishment, but not maintenance of their presumptive digit expression domains, depends on SHH signalling.

Key words: BMP antagonist, Cyclopamine, Feedback signalling, FGF, Gremlin1, Hox gene expression, Limb development, Sonic hedgehog, SU5402


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