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Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity
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One of the first steps in neurogenesis is the diversification of cells along the dorsoventral axis. In Drosophila the central nervous system develops from three longitudinal columns of cells: ventral cells that express the vnd/nk2 homeobox gene, intermediate cells, and dorsal cells that express the msh homeobox gene. Here we describe a new Drosophila homeobox gene, intermediate neuroblasts defective (ind), which is expressed specifically in the intermediate column cells. ind is essential for intermediate column development: Null mutants have a transformation of intermediate to dorsal column neuroectoderm fate, and only 10% of the intermediate column neuroblasts develop. The establishment of dorsoventral column identity involves negative regulation: Vnd represses ind in the ventral column, whereas ind represses msh in the intermediate column. Vertebrate genes closely related to vnd (Nkx2.1 and Nkx2.2), ind (Gsh1 and Gsh2), and msh (Msx1 and Msx3) are expressed in corresponding ventral, intermediate, and dorsal domains during vertebrate neurogenesis, raising the possibility that dorsoventral patterning within the central nervous system is evolutionarily conserved.
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“Similarly msh expression in the dorsal neuroectoderm is mirrored by Msx1 transcription in the dorsal neural tube (D' Alessio and Frasch 1996;Isshiki et al. 1997).”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Parallels with vertebrate neural patterning The vertebrate CNS develops from a dorsal neuroepithelium that is similar in many respects to the Drosophila ventral neuroectoderm.For example, in Xenopus the neural primordium is established by Chordin-mediated repression of BMP4 activity, whereas in Drosophila, the Chordin homolog Sog inhibits the BMP4 homolog Dpp to establish the neuroectoderm (for review, see Ferguson 1996;Bier 1997).In addition vertebrate orthologs of vnd and msh have been identified: Nkx2.1 and Nkx2.2 and Msx1 and Msx3, respectively (Holland 1991;Barth and Wilson 1995).Like vnd expression, Nkx2.2 expression is restricted to ventral regions of the nerve cord in the regions that give rise to motor neurons (Fig. 7).Similarly msh expression in the dorsal neuroectoderm is mirrored by Msx1 transcription in the dorsal neural tube (D' Alessio and Frasch 1996;Isshiki et al. 1997).The similar spatial distribution of Nkx2.2 and Msx1 and Msx3 expression to that of vnd and msh, respectively suggests a conserved mechanism of DV patterning across species (D' Alessio and Frasch 1996;Wang et al. 1996).Consistent with this, a putative ind ortholog, Gsh1, is expressed in symmetric lateral domains in the mouse neural tube (Fig. 7; Valerius et al. 1995).In Figure 7 the DV order of the Drosophila and mouse genes are clearly the same.It is also apparent that there are gaps between the expression domains of the three vertebrate genes that we have compared.We speculate that other related vertebrate genes will fill in these gaps.If the overall parallel is indicative of an evolutionary relationship, it will be of great importance to investigate what target genes might be regulated in common by the fly and vertebrate genes.Common targets might be revealing about ancient cell type diversification during neurogenesis.
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Section 3.3 says msh and its vertebrate homologs occupy topologically similar positions in the Drosophila neuroectoderm and vertebrate neural plate or tube. The Fig. 10 caption makes the comparison explicit: Msx1 is expressed in the dorsal neural tube, with an expression boundary analogous to that of Drosophila msh. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“Vertebrate genes closely related to vnd (Nkx2.1 and Nkx2.2), ind (Gsh1 and Gsh2), and msh (Msx1 and Msx3) are expressed in corresponding ventral, intermediate, and dorsal domains during vertebrate neurogenesis”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Abstract
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- Partly supportedcites Valerius et al. 1995 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The In Situ Hybridizations section reports Gsh-1 expression in a restricted mid-ventricular region of the developing mouse neural tube, supporting the intermediate-domain portion of the claim. The Gsh-1 Target DNA Binding Sequence section also reports strong Gsh-1/Gsh-2 homeodomain similarity. Our copy does not establish the proposed relationships to ind, vnd, or msh, or the claimed ventral and dorsal expression patterns of the other listed genes; the passages provide no page numbers. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“The Ind proteincontaining cells are immediately adjacent but nonoverlapping with Vnd-containing cells of the ventral column neuroectoderm (see McDonald et al. 1998).”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > A screen for genes regulated by Tinman class homeodomain proteins
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- Supportedcites McDonald et al. 1998 source
The Figure 3 caption says that, in wild-type embryos, Ind expression is restricted to the intermediate column neuroectoderm, while the Vnd protein section places Vnd in the ventral column neuroectoderm. The paper also describes Ind-positive cells directly abutting Vnd-positive cells without expressing Vnd. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“The similar spatial distribution of Nkx2.2 and Msx1 and Msx3 expression to that of vnd and msh, respectively suggests a conserved mechanism of DV patterning across species (D' Alessio and Frasch 1996;Wang et al. 1996).”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Parallels with vertebrate neural patterning The vertebrate CNS develops from a dorsal neuroepithelium that is similar in many respects to the Drosophila ventral neuroectoderm.For example, in Xenopus the neural primordium is established by Chordin-mediated repression of BMP4 activity, whereas in Drosophila, the Chordin homolog Sog inhibits the BMP4 homolog Dpp to establish the neuroectoderm (for review, see Ferguson 1996;Bier 1997).In addition vertebrate orthologs of vnd and msh have been identified: Nkx2.1 and Nkx2.2 and Msx1 and Msx3, respectively (Holland 1991;Barth and Wilson 1995).Like vnd expression, Nkx2.2 expression is restricted to ventral regions of the nerve cord in the regions that give rise to motor neurons (Fig. 7).Similarly msh expression in the dorsal neuroectoderm is mirrored by Msx1 transcription in the dorsal neural tube (D' Alessio and Frasch 1996;Isshiki et al. 1997).The similar spatial distribution of Nkx2.2 and Msx1 and Msx3 expression to that of vnd and msh, respectively suggests a conserved mechanism of DV patterning across species (D' Alessio and Frasch 1996;Wang et al. 1996).Consistent with this, a putative ind ortholog, Gsh1, is expressed in symmetric lateral domains in the mouse neural tube (Fig. 7; Valerius et al. 1995).In Figure 7 the DV order of the Drosophila and mouse genes are clearly the same.It is also apparent that there are gaps between the expression domains of the three vertebrate genes that we have compared.We speculate that other related vertebrate genes will fill in these gaps.If the overall parallel is indicative of an evolutionary relationship, it will be of great importance to investigate what target genes might be regulated in common by the fly and vertebrate genes.Common targets might be revealing about ancient cell type diversification during neurogenesis.
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- Supportedcites D' Alessio and Frasch 1996 source
Figure 10 describes Msx1 and Msx3 in lateral regions corresponding to Drosophila msh, and Nkx2.2 in a medial region similar to the vnd expression domain. Section 3.3 interprets these spatial similarities as evidence of conserved neural patterning between Drosophila and vertebrates. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“The three sites protected in the footprinting assay each contain one copy of the sequence GTGAACT, which has been found to be a recognition sequence for both Vnd and the Tinman-related Nkx2.5 vertebrate protein (Chen and Schwartz 1995;Gruschus et al. 1997).”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > A screen for genes regulated by Tinman class homeodomain proteins
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- Could not verifycites Chen and Schwartz 1995 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The DNA-binding results and Discussion (page unavailable) identify nkx-2.5 binding sequences, including the preferred consensus 5′-CTNNAGTG-3′. Our copy does not report three Vnd sites, a footprinting assay of those sites, or the sequence GTGAACT; searches for GTGAACT and Vnd found no passage addressing the claim. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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“Consistent with this, a putative ind ortholog, Gsh1, is expressed in symmetric lateral domains in the mouse neural tube (Fig. 7; Valerius et al. 1995).”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Parallels with vertebrate neural patterning The vertebrate CNS develops from a dorsal neuroepithelium that is similar in many respects to the Drosophila ventral neuroectoderm.For example, in Xenopus the neural primordium is established by Chordin-mediated repression of BMP4 activity, whereas in Drosophila, the Chordin homolog Sog inhibits the BMP4 homolog Dpp to establish the neuroectoderm (for review, see Ferguson 1996;Bier 1997).In addition vertebrate orthologs of vnd and msh have been identified: Nkx2.1 and Nkx2.2 and Msx1 and Msx3, respectively (Holland 1991;Barth and Wilson 1995).Like vnd expression, Nkx2.2 expression is restricted to ventral regions of the nerve cord in the regions that give rise to motor neurons (Fig. 7).Similarly msh expression in the dorsal neuroectoderm is mirrored by Msx1 transcription in the dorsal neural tube (D' Alessio and Frasch 1996;Isshiki et al. 1997).The similar spatial distribution of Nkx2.2 and Msx1 and Msx3 expression to that of vnd and msh, respectively suggests a conserved mechanism of DV patterning across species (D' Alessio and Frasch 1996;Wang et al. 1996).Consistent with this, a putative ind ortholog, Gsh1, is expressed in symmetric lateral domains in the mouse neural tube (Fig. 7; Valerius et al. 1995).In Figure 7 the DV order of the Drosophila and mouse genes are clearly the same.It is also apparent that there are gaps between the expression domains of the three vertebrate genes that we have compared.We speculate that other related vertebrate genes will fill in these gaps.If the overall parallel is indicative of an evolutionary relationship, it will be of great importance to investigate what target genes might be regulated in common by the fly and vertebrate genes.Common targets might be revealing about ancient cell type diversification during neurogenesis.
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- Partly supportedcites Valerius et al. 1995 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The In Situ Hybridizations section and Fig. 4 caption report two bilaterally symmetrical stripes of Gsh-1 expression extending along the mouse neural tube; the thoracic section places expression in a restricted mid-ventricular region. The passages do not identify Gsh-1 as a putative ind ortholog, so that part of the claim is not supported by our copy. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“The position of each of the two symmetric ind columns is just dorsal to the domain of vnd transcription (Fig. 4, below), in cells that will become the intermediate column of neuroectoderm.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > A screen for genes regulated by Tinman class homeodomain proteins
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“The earliest ind phenotype is observed in stage 7 embryonic neuroectoderm, when msh expression occurs both in its normal locations in the dorsal columns and in the adjacent intermediate columns (Fig. 6A,B).”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > A screen for genes regulated by Tinman class homeodomain proteins
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“ind is essential for intermediate column development: Null mutants have a transformation of intermediate to dorsal column neuroectoderm fate, and only 10% of the intermediate column neuroblasts develop.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Abstract
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“Vnd is produced in the ventral neuroectoderm immediately adjacent to the ind-expression domain.”
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“Similarly, vnd is thought to promote neuroblast formation by proneural-dependent and proneural-independent pathways (Jimenez et. al. 1995;McDonald et al. 1998).”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > ind promotes intermediate-column neuroblast formation
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Jimenez et. al. 1995 source
- Partly supportedcites McDonald et al. 1998 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
In “Vnd expression during neurogenesis” (page unavailable), the paper proposes that vnd acts with the proneural genes achaete and scute and says it has an additional role beyond activating their expression. It does not establish that this additional role is independent of proneural genes altogether; the passage also mentions lethal of scute in other ventral neuroblasts. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“In this paper and in McDonald et al. (1998) we show that vnd function is required to establish the ventral border of ind: In the absence of vnd, expression of ind is observed in the ventral-column neuroectoderm and neuroblasts.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Regulation of ind expression along the DV axis of the CNS
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The section “Loss of vnd transforms ventral to intermediate column identity” reports that, in vnd embryos, Ind is detected in ventral-column neuroectoderm and neuroblasts. The “Vnd expression during neurogenesis” section explicitly says vnd is required to keep ind expression out of those ventral-column cells, supporting the claimed role in establishing ind’s ventral border. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Whole-mount in situ hybridization first detects ind expression in two parallel, lateral columns in stage 5 cel-lular blastoderm embryos (Fig. 2).”
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“During gastrulation, the ind expression domain narrows until each column is two cells wide.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > A screen for genes regulated by Tinman class homeodomain proteins
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“Embryos lacking ind function have profound defects in the development of the intermediate column of the CNS.”
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“The defects include a derepression of dorsal column markers within the intermediate-column neuroectoderm.”
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“By stage 9, ind mRNA is absent from the neuroectoderm, but is detectable in all of the neuroblasts in the intermediate column (Nbs 3-2, 4-2, 5-3, 6-2, and 7-2).”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > A screen for genes regulated by Tinman class homeodomain proteins
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“Here we describe a new Drosophila homeobox gene, intermediate neuroblasts defective (ind), which is expressed specifically in the intermediate column cells.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Abstract
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“In stage 9 wild-type embryos, five neuroblasts constitute the intermediate column in each hemisegment.”
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“In ind mutant embryos, at most one intermediate-column neuroblast is observed in each hemisegment, whereas the normal number of ventral and dorsal column neuroblasts form.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > ind promotes intermediate-column neuroblast formation
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“A total of 80 hemisegments were scored.In a wild-type embryo 400 intermediate neuroblasts would be expected.In the ind mutant embryo 32 were observed.Eleven expressed Vnd, 12 expressed Msh, and 9 expressed neither marker.”
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“In wild-type embryos, an Eve-protein-containing RP2 is found in every hemisegment (100/100), whereas in ind mutant embryos the Eve-containing RP2 is never detected (0/96) (Fig. 6M,N).”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > A screen for genes regulated by Tinman class homeodomain proteins
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“The Ind protein is detected in the nucleus at all stages assayed, as expected for a homeodomain protein (Fig. 3).”
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“The antibody staining confirms that Ind is restricted to the intermediate column neuroectoderm and neuroblasts.”
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“Vnd specifically binds the fragment of ind genomic DNA isolated in the screen (Fig. 5A).”
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“Three specific binding sites of roughly equal affinity can be identified using footprinting assays (Fig. 5B).”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > A screen for genes regulated by Tinman class homeodomain proteins
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“In Figure 7 the DV order of the Drosophila and mouse genes are clearly the same.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Parallels with vertebrate neural patterning The vertebrate CNS develops from a dorsal neuroepithelium that is similar in many respects to the Drosophila ventral neuroectoderm.For example, in Xenopus the neural primordium is established by Chordin-mediated repression of BMP4 activity, whereas in Drosophila, the Chordin homolog Sog inhibits the BMP4 homolog Dpp to establish the neuroectoderm (for review, see Ferguson 1996;Bier 1997).In addition vertebrate orthologs of vnd and msh have been identified: Nkx2.1 and Nkx2.2 and Msx1 and Msx3, respectively (Holland 1991;Barth and Wilson 1995).Like vnd expression, Nkx2.2 expression is restricted to ventral regions of the nerve cord in the regions that give rise to motor neurons (Fig. 7).Similarly msh expression in the dorsal neuroectoderm is mirrored by Msx1 transcription in the dorsal neural tube (D' Alessio and Frasch 1996;Isshiki et al. 1997).The similar spatial distribution of Nkx2.2 and Msx1 and Msx3 expression to that of vnd and msh, respectively suggests a conserved mechanism of DV patterning across species (D' Alessio and Frasch 1996;Wang et al. 1996).Consistent with this, a putative ind ortholog, Gsh1, is expressed in symmetric lateral domains in the mouse neural tube (Fig. 7; Valerius et al. 1995).In Figure 7 the DV order of the Drosophila and mouse genes are clearly the same.It is also apparent that there are gaps between the expression domains of the three vertebrate genes that we have compared.We speculate that other related vertebrate genes will fill in these gaps.If the overall parallel is indicative of an evolutionary relationship, it will be of great importance to investigate what target genes might be regulated in common by the fly and vertebrate genes.Common targets might be revealing about ancient cell type diversification during neurogenesis.
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“(C,G) Early stage 9 embryos in which ind is expressed in the intermediate neurectoderm and S1, intermediate column neuroblasts.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Antibody generation and immunocytochemistry Rat serum and monoclonal antibodies were raised against an Ind peptide conjugated to bovine serum albumin (BSA).After the monoclonal fusion, hybridoma supernatants were screened by ELISA against a peptide-KLH conjugate.Positive hybridoma lines were tested by immunohistochemistry. Embryo fixation, antibody staining, and identification of homozygous mutant embryos were performed essentially as by McDonald and Doe (1997).Embryos were staged according to Campos-Ortega and Hartenstein (1997).Primary antibodies were used at the following dilutions: mouse anti-Achaete monoclonal (990E5F1; 1:10; Skeath and Carroll 1992), rabbit anti- galactosidase serum (1:3000; Cappel), rat anti--galactosidase monoclonal (1:10; Srinivasan et al. 1998), mouse anti-Eve [2B8; 1:10; (Patel 1994)], rabbit anti-Msh serum (1:500; T. Isshiki and A. Nose, unpubl.),rat anti-Ind serum (1:500), rat anti-IndN1 monoclonal (1:1), and rabbit anti-Vnd serum (1:10).Secondary antibodies of the appropriate species conjugated to biotin (Vector Labs) or alkaline phosphatase (Southern Biotechnology Associates) were used at a dilution of 1:400.Histochemical detection of primary antibodies was done with the HRP Vectastain Elite kit (Vector Labs) in conjunction with the Renaissance TSA Indirect kit (NEN Life Sciences) for some antibodies.After staining, embryos were dissected, mounted in 70% or 85% glycerol and examined on a Zeiss Axioplan microscope.Images were captured with a Sony DKC-5000 digital camera. Figure: 6 These authors contributed equally to this paper.7 Present address: Institutes of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 USA.
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“(B,D,F).ind 16.2 mutant embryos show Msh is expanded in the neurectoderm at stage 7 (B).This persists until stage 9 when the neuroblasts delaminate (D,F).”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Antibody generation and immunocytochemistry Rat serum and monoclonal antibodies were raised against an Ind peptide conjugated to bovine serum albumin (BSA).After the monoclonal fusion, hybridoma supernatants were screened by ELISA against a peptide-KLH conjugate.Positive hybridoma lines were tested by immunohistochemistry. Embryo fixation, antibody staining, and identification of homozygous mutant embryos were performed essentially as by McDonald and Doe (1997).Embryos were staged according to Campos-Ortega and Hartenstein (1997).Primary antibodies were used at the following dilutions: mouse anti-Achaete monoclonal (990E5F1; 1:10; Skeath and Carroll 1992), rabbit anti- galactosidase serum (1:3000; Cappel), rat anti--galactosidase monoclonal (1:10; Srinivasan et al. 1998), mouse anti-Eve [2B8; 1:10; (Patel 1994)], rabbit anti-Msh serum (1:500; T. Isshiki and A. Nose, unpubl.),rat anti-Ind serum (1:500), rat anti-IndN1 monoclonal (1:1), and rabbit anti-Vnd serum (1:10).Secondary antibodies of the appropriate species conjugated to biotin (Vector Labs) or alkaline phosphatase (Southern Biotechnology Associates) were used at a dilution of 1:400.Histochemical detection of primary antibodies was done with the HRP Vectastain Elite kit (Vector Labs) in conjunction with the Renaissance TSA Indirect kit (NEN Life Sciences) for some antibodies.After staining, embryos were dissected, mounted in 70% or 85% glycerol and examined on a Zeiss Axioplan microscope.Images were captured with a Sony DKC-5000 digital camera. Figure: 6 These authors contributed equally to this paper.7 Present address: Institutes of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 USA.
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“A P-element insertion obtained from the Drosophila Genome Project was mapped near the coding sequence of ind (Fig. 1).”
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“The coding sequence for ind is contained in a single exon, shown as a large box.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Antibody generation and immunocytochemistry Rat serum and monoclonal antibodies were raised against an Ind peptide conjugated to bovine serum albumin (BSA).After the monoclonal fusion, hybridoma supernatants were screened by ELISA against a peptide-KLH conjugate.Positive hybridoma lines were tested by immunohistochemistry. Embryo fixation, antibody staining, and identification of homozygous mutant embryos were performed essentially as by McDonald and Doe (1997).Embryos were staged according to Campos-Ortega and Hartenstein (1997).Primary antibodies were used at the following dilutions: mouse anti-Achaete monoclonal (990E5F1; 1:10; Skeath and Carroll 1992), rabbit anti- galactosidase serum (1:3000; Cappel), rat anti--galactosidase monoclonal (1:10; Srinivasan et al. 1998), mouse anti-Eve [2B8; 1:10; (Patel 1994)], rabbit anti-Msh serum (1:500; T. Isshiki and A. Nose, unpubl.),rat anti-Ind serum (1:500), rat anti-IndN1 monoclonal (1:1), and rabbit anti-Vnd serum (1:10).Secondary antibodies of the appropriate species conjugated to biotin (Vector Labs) or alkaline phosphatase (Southern Biotechnology Associates) were used at a dilution of 1:400.Histochemical detection of primary antibodies was done with the HRP Vectastain Elite kit (Vector Labs) in conjunction with the Renaissance TSA Indirect kit (NEN Life Sciences) for some antibodies.After staining, embryos were dissected, mounted in 70% or 85% glycerol and examined on a Zeiss Axioplan microscope.Images were captured with a Sony DKC-5000 digital camera. Figure: 6 These authors contributed equally to this paper.7 Present address: Institutes of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 USA.
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“(B) Electrophoresis mobilityshift assay using ind DNA nucleotides 5-135, which includes all three Vnd-binding regions.A DNA/protein complex is observed upon addition of Vnd.This complex can be competed out with increasing amounts of the Vnd-I oligonucleotide but not with an irrelevant oligonucleotide (H2A).”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Antibody generation and immunocytochemistry Rat serum and monoclonal antibodies were raised against an Ind peptide conjugated to bovine serum albumin (BSA).After the monoclonal fusion, hybridoma supernatants were screened by ELISA against a peptide-KLH conjugate.Positive hybridoma lines were tested by immunohistochemistry. Embryo fixation, antibody staining, and identification of homozygous mutant embryos were performed essentially as by McDonald and Doe (1997).Embryos were staged according to Campos-Ortega and Hartenstein (1997).Primary antibodies were used at the following dilutions: mouse anti-Achaete monoclonal (990E5F1; 1:10; Skeath and Carroll 1992), rabbit anti- galactosidase serum (1:3000; Cappel), rat anti--galactosidase monoclonal (1:10; Srinivasan et al. 1998), mouse anti-Eve [2B8; 1:10; (Patel 1994)], rabbit anti-Msh serum (1:500; T. Isshiki and A. Nose, unpubl.),rat anti-Ind serum (1:500), rat anti-IndN1 monoclonal (1:1), and rabbit anti-Vnd serum (1:10).Secondary antibodies of the appropriate species conjugated to biotin (Vector Labs) or alkaline phosphatase (Southern Biotechnology Associates) were used at a dilution of 1:400.Histochemical detection of primary antibodies was done with the HRP Vectastain Elite kit (Vector Labs) in conjunction with the Renaissance TSA Indirect kit (NEN Life Sciences) for some antibodies.After staining, embryos were dissected, mounted in 70% or 85% glycerol and examined on a Zeiss Axioplan microscope.Images were captured with a Sony DKC-5000 digital camera. Figure: 6 These authors contributed equally to this paper.7 Present address: Institutes of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 USA.
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“Pan neural expression of Hunchback in wild-type late stage 9 embryos shows there are three columns of neuroblasts (K).In ind 16.2 embryos only two columns of S1 neuroblasts are observed.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Antibody generation and immunocytochemistry Rat serum and monoclonal antibodies were raised against an Ind peptide conjugated to bovine serum albumin (BSA).After the monoclonal fusion, hybridoma supernatants were screened by ELISA against a peptide-KLH conjugate.Positive hybridoma lines were tested by immunohistochemistry. Embryo fixation, antibody staining, and identification of homozygous mutant embryos were performed essentially as by McDonald and Doe (1997).Embryos were staged according to Campos-Ortega and Hartenstein (1997).Primary antibodies were used at the following dilutions: mouse anti-Achaete monoclonal (990E5F1; 1:10; Skeath and Carroll 1992), rabbit anti- galactosidase serum (1:3000; Cappel), rat anti--galactosidase monoclonal (1:10; Srinivasan et al. 1998), mouse anti-Eve [2B8; 1:10; (Patel 1994)], rabbit anti-Msh serum (1:500; T. Isshiki and A. Nose, unpubl.),rat anti-Ind serum (1:500), rat anti-IndN1 monoclonal (1:1), and rabbit anti-Vnd serum (1:10).Secondary antibodies of the appropriate species conjugated to biotin (Vector Labs) or alkaline phosphatase (Southern Biotechnology Associates) were used at a dilution of 1:400.Histochemical detection of primary antibodies was done with the HRP Vectastain Elite kit (Vector Labs) in conjunction with the Renaissance TSA Indirect kit (NEN Life Sciences) for some antibodies.After staining, embryos were dissected, mounted in 70% or 85% glycerol and examined on a Zeiss Axioplan microscope.Images were captured with a Sony DKC-5000 digital camera. Figure: 6 These authors contributed equally to this paper.7 Present address: Institutes of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 USA.
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“The deletion is 7 kb long and removes the coding sequence for ind.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Antibody generation and immunocytochemistry Rat serum and monoclonal antibodies were raised against an Ind peptide conjugated to bovine serum albumin (BSA).After the monoclonal fusion, hybridoma supernatants were screened by ELISA against a peptide-KLH conjugate.Positive hybridoma lines were tested by immunohistochemistry. Embryo fixation, antibody staining, and identification of homozygous mutant embryos were performed essentially as by McDonald and Doe (1997).Embryos were staged according to Campos-Ortega and Hartenstein (1997).Primary antibodies were used at the following dilutions: mouse anti-Achaete monoclonal (990E5F1; 1:10; Skeath and Carroll 1992), rabbit anti- galactosidase serum (1:3000; Cappel), rat anti--galactosidase monoclonal (1:10; Srinivasan et al. 1998), mouse anti-Eve [2B8; 1:10; (Patel 1994)], rabbit anti-Msh serum (1:500; T. Isshiki and A. Nose, unpubl.),rat anti-Ind serum (1:500), rat anti-IndN1 monoclonal (1:1), and rabbit anti-Vnd serum (1:10).Secondary antibodies of the appropriate species conjugated to biotin (Vector Labs) or alkaline phosphatase (Southern Biotechnology Associates) were used at a dilution of 1:400.Histochemical detection of primary antibodies was done with the HRP Vectastain Elite kit (Vector Labs) in conjunction with the Renaissance TSA Indirect kit (NEN Life Sciences) for some antibodies.After staining, embryos were dissected, mounted in 70% or 85% glycerol and examined on a Zeiss Axioplan microscope.Images were captured with a Sony DKC-5000 digital camera. Figure: 6 These authors contributed equally to this paper.7 Present address: Institutes of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 USA.
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“ind appears to be the missing regulator, a gene that precisely marks and controls the development of the intermediate column of neuroectoderm and neuroblasts.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Discussion
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“In addition vertebrate orthologs of vnd and msh have been identified: Nkx2.1 and Nkx2.2 and Msx1 and Msx3, respectively (Holland 1991;Barth and Wilson 1995).”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Parallels with vertebrate neural patterning The vertebrate CNS develops from a dorsal neuroepithelium that is similar in many respects to the Drosophila ventral neuroectoderm.For example, in Xenopus the neural primordium is established by Chordin-mediated repression of BMP4 activity, whereas in Drosophila, the Chordin homolog Sog inhibits the BMP4 homolog Dpp to establish the neuroectoderm (for review, see Ferguson 1996;Bier 1997).In addition vertebrate orthologs of vnd and msh have been identified: Nkx2.1 and Nkx2.2 and Msx1 and Msx3, respectively (Holland 1991;Barth and Wilson 1995).Like vnd expression, Nkx2.2 expression is restricted to ventral regions of the nerve cord in the regions that give rise to motor neurons (Fig. 7).Similarly msh expression in the dorsal neuroectoderm is mirrored by Msx1 transcription in the dorsal neural tube (D' Alessio and Frasch 1996;Isshiki et al. 1997).The similar spatial distribution of Nkx2.2 and Msx1 and Msx3 expression to that of vnd and msh, respectively suggests a conserved mechanism of DV patterning across species (D' Alessio and Frasch 1996;Wang et al. 1996).Consistent with this, a putative ind ortholog, Gsh1, is expressed in symmetric lateral domains in the mouse neural tube (Fig. 7; Valerius et al. 1995).In Figure 7 the DV order of the Drosophila and mouse genes are clearly the same.It is also apparent that there are gaps between the expression domains of the three vertebrate genes that we have compared.We speculate that other related vertebrate genes will fill in these gaps.If the overall parallel is indicative of an evolutionary relationship, it will be of great importance to investigate what target genes might be regulated in common by the fly and vertebrate genes.Common targets might be revealing about ancient cell type diversification during neurogenesis.
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“We conclude that ind represses msh and achaete gene expression directly or indirectly, and that ind is necessary for establishing proper intermediate-column identity within the neuroectoderm.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > A screen for genes regulated by Tinman class homeodomain proteins
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“We believe that the ind phenotype described below is caused specifically by the loss of ind function because the ind 79.3 mutation is a small deficiency that deletes the ind-coding region and 6 kb of flanking DNA, but not any other detectable gene (Fig. 1).”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > A screen for genes regulated by Tinman class homeodomain proteins
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“Thus, ind is essential for the formation of intermediate column neuroblasts, and for the repression of ventral-and dorsal-specific genes within these neuroblasts.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > A screen for genes regulated by Tinman class homeodomain proteins
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“The three longitudinal columns of cells along the DV axis are defined by the ventral expression and function of vnd; the intermediate expression and function of ind; and the dorsal expression and function of msh.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Regulation of ind expression along the DV axis of the CNS
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“The sequence of both strands was determined by the cycle sequencing reaction and an automated ABI sequencer (ABI PRISM Dye Terminator Cycle Sequencing Ready Reaction Kit, Perkin Elmer).”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Gene discovery The genomic DNA inserts from the screen were employed as probes in hybridization screening for phage genomic clones by standard protocols (Sambrook et al. 1989).The library screened was provided by John Tamkun (Tamkun et al. 1992).Transcribed regions within the genomic were detected by hybridization to radiolabeled cDNA essentially as in Frei et al. (1986).Restriction digests of DM genomic phage that contained the Tinman binding sites were size fractionated in 0.8% agarose gel and transferred to a nylon filter (Sambrook et al. 1989).The filters were hybridized with radiolabeled cDNA synthesized by random priming of poly(A)-enriched RNA extracted from 0-to 24-hr embryos.Total embryonic RNA was extracted with guanidine HCl and organic solvents as described in Sambrook et al. (1989).Total RNA was enriched for poly(A) + RNA by selection on oligo-dT cellulose according to the manufacturer's directions (Pharmacia, mRNA Purification Kit).Radioactive cDNA was synthesized according to the protocol in Sambrook et al. (1989) with the modification that SuperScript Reverse Transcriptase and Buffers were used (GIBCO-BRL).Hybridization of radioactive cDNA to genomic phage DNA was performed in Church buffer (Church and Gilbert 1984).Fragments of genomic DNA that hybridized to radiolabeled cDNA were employed as probes for whole-mount in situ hybridization to embryos and for hybridization screening of cDNA libraries.Full-length cDNA clones were isolated by standard hybridization screening from the staged embryonic cDNA library of N. Brown (Brown and Kafatos 1988).The sequence of both strands was determined by the cycle sequencing reaction and an automated ABI sequencer (ABI PRISM Dye Terminator Cycle Sequencing Ready Reaction Kit, Perkin Elmer).Homology to known genes was determined by BLAST search of the NCBI database (Altschul et al. 1997).The cytogenetic location of the gene was determined by hybridization to squashes of salivary polytene chromosomes by standard methods (Pardue 1994).
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“Loss of ind function results in loss of intermediate-column neuroblasts and intermediate-column-derived neurons.”
§ Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity > Antibody generation and immunocytochemistry Rat serum and monoclonal antibodies were raised against an Ind peptide conjugated to bovine serum albumin (BSA).After the monoclonal fusion, hybridoma supernatants were screened by ELISA against a peptide-KLH conjugate.Positive hybridoma lines were tested by immunohistochemistry. Embryo fixation, antibody staining, and identification of homozygous mutant embryos were performed essentially as by McDonald and Doe (1997).Embryos were staged according to Campos-Ortega and Hartenstein (1997).Primary antibodies were used at the following dilutions: mouse anti-Achaete monoclonal (990E5F1; 1:10; Skeath and Carroll 1992), rabbit anti- galactosidase serum (1:3000; Cappel), rat anti--galactosidase monoclonal (1:10; Srinivasan et al. 1998), mouse anti-Eve [2B8; 1:10; (Patel 1994)], rabbit anti-Msh serum (1:500; T. Isshiki and A. Nose, unpubl.),rat anti-Ind serum (1:500), rat anti-IndN1 monoclonal (1:1), and rabbit anti-Vnd serum (1:10).Secondary antibodies of the appropriate species conjugated to biotin (Vector Labs) or alkaline phosphatase (Southern Biotechnology Associates) were used at a dilution of 1:400.Histochemical detection of primary antibodies was done with the HRP Vectastain Elite kit (Vector Labs) in conjunction with the Renaissance TSA Indirect kit (NEN Life Sciences) for some antibodies.After staining, embryos were dissected, mounted in 70% or 85% glycerol and examined on a Zeiss Axioplan microscope.Images were captured with a Sony DKC-5000 digital camera. Figure: 6 These authors contributed equally to this paper.7 Present address: Institutes of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 USA.
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- Rests on an assumption: The ind mutant alleles used (including the ind79.3 deletion) disrupt only the ind gene, so the observed CNS phenotypes are due to loss of ind function.
The paper relies on this without support.
No genes were known to be expressed specifically in the intermediate column of the Drosophila CNS before this study.
“Although vnd and msh are candidate genes for establishing ventral and dorsal column fates within the CNS, no genes are known currently to be expressed specifically in the intermediate column of the CNS.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The anti-Ind antibodies used specifically detect Ind protein, so the observed protein distribution reflects Ind.
“Rat serum and monoclonal antibodies were raised against an Ind peptide conjugated to bovine serum albumin (BSA).After the monoclonal fusion, hybridoma supernatants were screened by ELISA against a peptide-KLH conjugate.Positive hybridoma lines were tested by immunohistochemistry.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The ind mutant alleles used (including the ind79.3 deletion) disrupt only the ind gene, so the observed CNS phenotypes are due to loss of ind function.
“The deletion is 7 kb long and removes the coding sequence for ind.”
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The third P-element mutant has two allele numbers
MinorThe Results identify the third P-element-derived allele as ind 4.1, while Materials and methods identify it as ind 4.2.
“three ind alleles (ind 16.2 , ind 79.3 , and ind 4.1 ) were obtained by mobilizing a P element located next to the ind locus.”
“Additional complementation testing placed two other mutant lines in the same complementation group (ind 79.3 and ind 4.2 ).”
Figure 5 assay panels are reversed in the text
MinorThe Results assign binding and footprinting assays to panels A and B, respectively. The figure caption labels panel A as footprinting and panel B as the mobility-shift binding assay.
“Vnd specifically binds the fragment of ind genomic DNA isolated in the screen (Fig. 5A).Three specific binding sites of roughly equal affinity can be identified using footprinting assays (Fig. 5B).”
“(A) DNase I footprints of both strands of the ind DNA.Three major protected regions become visible as the amount of recombinant Vnd homeodomain is increased.(B) Electrophoresis mobilityshift assay using ind DNA nucleotides 5-135, which includes all three Vnd-binding regions.”
Ind protein is both present and absent after stage 11
MinorThe text says Ind protein is detectable in all intermediate-column neuroblasts at stage 13, but the next sentence says it is not detectable after stage 11.
“In contrast to ind mRNA, Ind protein is detectable in all intermediate column neuroblasts at stage 13, after the mRNA is no longer detectable in most of these neuroblasts.”
“Ind protein is not detectable after stage 11 of embryogenesis.”
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BackgroundSize-dependent regulation of dorsal–ventral patterning in the early Drosophila embryo
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“Furthermore, several other genes involved in heart and nervous system development, such as Nkx2-5, netrin, vnd/Nk2, ind/Gsh1,2 and Msh/Msx1,3, are expressed in opposite domains in chordates and protostomes (Weiss et al. 1998; Tanaka et al. 1999).”
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“In vnd mutants, ind is derepressed within the ventral part of the truncal neuroectoderm (Weiss et al., 1998).”
BackgroundInfluentialDorsal-Ventral Differences in Neural Stem Cell Quiescence Are Induced by p57KIP2/Dacapo
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“2 is expressed ventral to ind/Gsh, and the gene muscle specific homeobox (msh)/Msx1/2 is expressed dorsally to ind [18,19,20].”
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“Therefore, this gene is critical in specifying the dorsoventral axis during Drosophila CNS development.(27) The major known molecular function of vnd is transcriptional repression.”
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“Vnd is a dual regulator capable of repressing the expression of genes that specify the identity of neuroectodermal cells in more lateral regions of the developing CNS, such as intermediate neuroblasts defective (ind) and muscle specific homeobox gene (msh), and activating genes, such as the proneural gene, achaete (Sk…”
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BackgroundSequence-specific DNA binding by the vnd/NK-2 homeodomain of Drosophila
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“…nervous system defective (vnd), the intermediate column expresses intermediate neuroblasts defective (ind), and the dorsal column expresses muscle segment homeobox (msh; Mellerick and Nirenberg, 1995; D’Alessio and Frasch, 1996; Isshiki et al., 1997; Mc Donald et al., 1998; Weiss et al., 1998).”
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“The expression of these ‘DV genes’ subdivides the trunk NE into three longitudinal columns along the DV axis: ventral nervous system defective (vnd/Nkx2) in the ventral, intermediate neuroblasts defective (ind/Gsx) in the intermediate, and muscle segment homeobox (msh/Msx; Drop – FlyBase) in the dorsal NE column (Chu…”
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“Similarly, the vertebrate gsh genes (together with the vnd and msh orthologues) are expressed in corresponding ventral, intermediate, and dorsal domains during neurogenesis (reviewed by Weiss et al. 1998).”
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“In the same time, NK-2A was detected on NK-2 binding sites of Ind gene identified before (20).”
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“Second, experiments of genetic manipulation that altered the width of D/V expression domains within the neuroectoderm resulted in the duplication or elimination of neuroblasts of particular identity [25,26,27,28,29,30].”
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“Only the Gsx homologue (intermediate neuroblasts defective) and Cdx homologue (caudal) have been identified in Drosophila (Weiss et al. 1998; Macdonald & Struhl 1986), while the Cdx homologue (pal-1), but not Gsx or Xlox, exists in Caenorhabditis elegans (Ruvkun & Hobert 1998).”
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“…restricted stripes of homeodomain gene expression in the developing embryo it is necessary to coordinate multiple signaling pathways and the assembly of transcription factors on the regulatory DNA of each gene (Skeath, 1998; Yagi et al., 1998; Von Ohlen and Doe, 2000; Miller et al., 2001).”
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“Drosophila, an arthropod, is reported to have both the Gsx orthology group (Ind) (Weiss et al. 1998) and the Cdx orthology group (Cad) (Macdonald and Struhl 1986).”
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“…(vnd) (Jimenez et al., 1995; Mellerick and Nirenberg, 1995; Chu et al., 1998; McDonald et al., 1998), intermediate neuroblasts defective (ind) (Weiss et al., 1998), and muscle-specific homeodomain (msh) (D’Alesso and Frasch, 1996; Wang et al., 1996; Isshiki et al., 1997; reviewed by Cornell…”
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“Similarly, ind mutation leads to loss of neuroblasts in the intermediate column and the transformation of intermediate to dorsal fates of remaining neuroblasts, corresponding to an extended msh-expression domain into the intermediate column of the ventral neuroectoderm (Weiss et al., 1998).”
BackgroundGsx transcription factors repress Iroquois gene expression
Winterbottom, E. F., Ramsbottom, S. A., & Isaacs, H. V. (2011) · Developmental Dynamics · doi:10.1002/dvdy.22648 · Cited by 4
“However, there have been no reports, thus far, of vertebrate Gsx proteins acting as direct transcriptional activators, and the sequence encoding the activation domain in Drosophila Ind is not conserved in vertebrates (Weiss et al., 1998; Von Ohlen and Moses, 2009).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Weiss, J. B., Von Ohlen, T., Mellerick, D. M., Dressler, G., Doe, C. Q., & Scott, M. P.
- Affiliations
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Venue
- Genes & Development
- Publisher
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Published
- 1998-11-15
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 22
- Pages
- 3591-3602
- ISSN
- 0890-9369 (ISSN-L)
- 1549-5477
- PMC
- PMC317240
- OpenAlex
- W7073826300
- Semantic Scholar
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- Cited by
- 236
- References
- 57
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- Genes & Development (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- National Institutes of Health
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Keywords
- dorsoventral patterning, Drosophila central nervous system, homeobox genes, negative regulation, evolutionary conservation
- MeSH terms
- Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Base Sequence, Central Nervous System, Drosophila, Genes, Homeobox, Molecular Sequence Data, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Neurons, Repressor Proteins, RNA, Messenger, Transcription Factors, Trans-Activators, Sequence Alignment, Genes, Insect, In Situ Hybridization, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Homeodomain Proteins, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, DNA Footprinting, Body Patterning, Drosophila Proteins
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-10, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-10 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Cited sources are checked with a language model’s help (gpt-6-sol).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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