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Mouse homologues of Shisa antagonistic to Wnt and Fgf signalings

2007; Elsevier BV; Volume: 306; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.03.028

1095-564X

Kenryo Furushima, Akihito Yamamoto, Takashi Nagano, Mikihito Shibata, Hitoshi Miyachi, Takaya Abe, Naoko Ohshima, Hiroshi Kiyonari, Shinichi Aizawa,

Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation

In an effort to identify Otx2 targets in mouse anterior neuroectoderm we identified a gene, mShisa, which is homologous to xShisa1 that we previously reported as a head inducer in Xenopus. mShisa encodes an antagonist against both Wnt and Fgf signalings; it inhibits these signalings cell-autonomously as xShisa1 does. The mShisa expression is lost or greatly reduced in Otx2 mutant visceral endoderm, anterior mesendoderm and anterior neuroectoderm. However, mShisa mutants exhibited no defects in head development. Shisa is composed of five subfamilies, but normal head development in mShisa mutants is unlikely to be explained in terms of the compensation of mShisa deficiency by its paralogues or by known Wnt antagonists in anterior visceral endoderm and/or anterior mesendoderm.