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Development ePress online publication date 14 Mar 2007
doi: 10.1242/dev.02829

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Lack of the murine homeobox gene Hesx1 leads to a posterior transformation of the anterior forebrain


Cynthia L. Andoniadou, Massimo Signore, Ezat Sajedi, Carles Gaston-Massuet, Daniel Kelberman, Alan J. Burns, Nobue Itasaki, Mehul Dattani, and Juan Pedro Martinez-Barbera*
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The homeobox gene Hesx1 is an essential repressor that is required within the anterior neural plate for normal forebrain development in mouse and humans. Combining genetic cell labelling and marker analyses, we demonstrate that the absence of Hesx1 leads to a posterior transformation of the anterior forebrain (AFB) during mouse development. Our data suggest that the mechanism underlying this transformation is the ectopic activation of Wnt/{beta}-catenin signalling within the Hesx1 expression domain in the AFB. When ectopically expressed in the developing mouse embryo, Hesx1 alone cannot alter the normal fate of posterior neural tissue. However, conditional expression of Hesx1 within the AFB can rescue the forebrain defects observed in the Hesx1 mutants. The results presented here provide new insights into the function of Hesx1 in forebrain formation.


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