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Engrailed defines the position of dorsal di-mesencephalic boundary by repressing diencephalic fate
I. Araki, H. Nakamura
Development 1999 126: 5127-5135;

Summary

Regionalization of a simple neural tube is a fundamental event during the development of central nervous system. To analyze in vivo the molecular mechanisms underlying the development of mesencephalon, we ectopically expressed Engrailed, which is expressed in developing mesencephalon, in the brain of chick embryos by in ovo electroporation. Misexpression of Engrailed caused a rostral shift of the di-mesencephalic boundary, and caused transformation of dorsal diencephalon into tectum, a derivative of dorsal mesencephalon. Ectopic Engrailed rapidly repressed Pax-6, a marker for diencephalon, which preceded the induction of mesencephalon-related genes such as Pax-2, Pax-5, Fgf8, Wnt-1 and EphrinA2. In contrast, a mutant Engrailed, En-2(F51rE), bearing mutation in EH1 domain, which has been shown to interact with a co-repressor, Groucho, did not show the phenotype induced by wild-type Engrailed. Furthermore, VP16-Engrailed chimeric protein, the dominant positive form of Engrailed, caused caudal shift of di-mesencephalic boundary and ectopic Pax-6 expression in mesencephalon. These data suggest that (1) Engrailed defines the position of dorsal di-mesencephalic boundary by directly repressing diencephalic fate, and (2) Engrailed positively regulates the expression of mesencephalon-related genes by repressing the expression of their negative regulator(s).

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Engrailed defines the position of dorsal di-mesencephalic boundary by repressing diencephalic fate
I. Araki, H. Nakamura
Development 1999 126: 5127-5135;
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