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- Title
The zinc finger gene Xblimp1 controls anterior endomesodermal cell fate in Spemann's organizer.
- Authors
de Souza, Flávio S. J.; Gawantka, Volker; Gómez, Aitana Perea; Delius, Hajo; Siew-Lan Ang; Niehrs, Christof
- Abstract
The anterior endomesoderm of the early Xenopus gastrula is a part of Spemann's organizer and is important for head induction. Here we describe Xblimp1, which encodes a zinc finger transcriptional repressor expressed in the anterior endomesoderm. Xblimp1 represses trunk mesoderm and induces anterior endomesoderm in a cooperative manner with the pan-endodermal gene Mix.1. Furthermore, Xblimp1 can cooperate with the BMP inhibitor chordin to induce ectopic heads, while a dominant-negative Xblimp1 inhibits head formation. The head inducer cerberus is positively regulated by Xblimp1 and is able to rescue microcephalic embryos caused by dominant-negative Xblimp1. Our results indicate that Xblimp1 is required for anterior endomesodermal cell fate and head induction.
- Subjects
XENOPUS; GASTRULATION; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE expression; XENOPUS laevis; PIPIDAE
- Publication
EMBO Journal, 1999, Vol 18, Issue 21, p6062
- ISSN
0261-4189
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/emboj/18.21.6062