PUBLICATION
Zebrafish KLF4 is essential for anterior mesendoderm/pre-polster differentiation and hatching
- Authors
- Gardiner, M.R., Daggett, D.F., Zon, L.I., and Perkins, A.C.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-051019-5
- Date
- 2005
- Source
- Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists 234(4): 992-996 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Daggett, Dave, Perkins, Andrew, Zon, Leonard I.
- Keywords
- BMP4, Cap1, CatL, hatching gland, anterior mesendoderm, polster, zebrafish, zKLF4
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Cell Differentiation/physiology*
- Endoderm/metabolism
- Endoderm/physiology*
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
- In Situ Hybridization
- Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors/metabolism*
- Oligonucleotides, Antisense
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/metabolism
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 16222715 Full text @ Dev. Dyn.
Citation
Gardiner, M.R., Daggett, D.F., Zon, L.I., and Perkins, A.C. (2005) Zebrafish KLF4 is essential for anterior mesendoderm/pre-polster differentiation and hatching. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 234(4):992-996.
Abstract
Gene knockout studies of Kruppel-like factors (KLFs) in mice have shown essential roles in organogenesis. A screen for KLF family members in zebrafish identified many KLFs. One of these, zebrafish KLF4 (zKLF4) is the homologue of neptune, a Xenopus laevis KLF. zKLF4 is expressed from approximately 80% epiboly a patch of dorsal/anterior mesendodermal cells called the pre-polster and, subsequently, in the polster and hatching gland. Here we investigate the function of zKLF4 using morpholino-based antisense oligonucleotides. Knockdown of zKLF4 resulted in complete absence of hatching gland formation and subsequent hatching in zebrafish. In addition, there was early knockdown of expression of the pre-polster/anterior mesendoderm markers CatL, cap1, and BMP4. These results indicate zKLF4 is expressed within the pre-polster, an early mesendodermal site, and that it plays a critical role in the differentiation of these cells into hatching gland cells.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping