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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
17
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-10-28
pubmed:abstractText
The Dlx5 gene encodes a Distal-less-related DNA-binding homeobox protein first expressed during early embryonic development in anterior regions of the mouse embryo. In later developmental stages, it appears in the branchial arches, the otic and olfactory placodes and their derivatives, in restricted brain regions, in all extending appendages and in all developing bones. We have created a null allele of the mouse Dlx5 gene by replacing exons I and II with the E. coli lacZ gene. Heterozygous mice appear normal. Beta-galactosidase activity in Dlx5+/- embryos and newborn animals reproduces the known pattern of expression of the gene. Homozygous mutants die shortly after birth with a swollen abdomen. They present a complex phenotype characterised by craniofacial abnormalities affecting derivatives of the first four branchial arches, severe malformations of the vestibular organ, a delayed ossification of the roof of the skull and abnormal osteogenesis. No obvious defect was observed in the patterning of limbs and other appendages. The defects observed in Dlx5-/- mutant animals suggest multiple and independent roles of this gene in the patterning of the branchial arches, in the morphogenesis of the vestibular organ and in osteoblast differentiation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0950-1991
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
126
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3795-809
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Animals, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Bone and Bones, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Cell Division, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Craniofacial Abnormalities, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Gene Targeting, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Genes, Homeobox, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Homeodomain Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-In Situ Hybridization, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Lac Operon, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Osteoblasts, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:10433909-Vestibule, Labyrinth
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Craniofacial, vestibular and bone defects in mice lacking the Distal-less-related gene Dlx5.
pubmed:affiliation
International Institute of Genetic and Biophysics, CNR, via Marconi 10, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't