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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-12-22
pubmed:abstractText
While cilia are present on most cells in the mammalian body, their functional importance has only recently been discovered. Cilia formation requires intraflagellar transport (IFT), and mutations disrupting the IFT process result in loss of cilia and mid-gestation lethality with developmental defects that include polydactyly and abnormal neural tube patterning. The early lethality in IFT mutants has hindered research efforts to study the role of this organelle at later developmental stages. Thus, to investigate the role of cilia during limb development, we generated a conditional allele of the IFT protein Ift88 (polaris). Using the Cre-lox system, we disrupted cilia on different cell populations within the developing limb. While deleting cilia in regions of the limb ectoderm had no overt effect on patterning, disruption in the mesenchyme resulted in extensive polydactyly with loss of anteroposterior digit patterning and shortening of the proximodistal axis. The digit patterning abnormalities were associated with aberrant Shh pathway activity, whereas defects in limb outgrowth were due in part to disruption of Ihh signaling during endochondral bone formation. In addition, the limbs of mesenchymal cilia mutants have ectopic domains of cells that resemble chondrocytes derived from the perichondrium, which is not typical of Indian hedgehog mutants. Overall these data provide evidence that IFT is essential for normal formation of the appendicular skeleton through disruption of multiple signaling pathways.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0950-1991
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
134
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
307-16
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-12-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Body Patterning, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Bone Development, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Cilia, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Female, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Flagella, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Hedgehog Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-In Situ Hybridization, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Mice, Mutant Strains, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Polydactyly, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Pregnancy, pubmed-meshheading:17166921-Tumor Suppressor Proteins
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Intraflagellar transport is essential for endochondral bone formation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-0005, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural