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T-Box transcription factor Tbx20 regulates a genetic program for cranial motor neuron cell body migration.


ABSTRACT: Members of the T-box transcription factor family (Tbx) are associated with several human syndromes during embryogenesis. Nevertheless, their functions within the developing CNS remain poorly characterized. Tbx20 is expressed by migrating branchiomotor/visceromotor (BM/VM) neurons within the hindbrain during neuronal circuit formation. We examined Tbx20 function in BM/VM cells using conditional Tbx20-null mutant mice to delete the gene in neurons. Hindbrain rhombomere patterning and the initial generation of post-mitotic BM/VM neurons were normal in Tbx20 mutants. However, Tbx20 was required for the tangential (caudal) migration of facial neurons, the lateral migration of trigeminal cells and the trans-median movement of vestibuloacoustic neurons. Facial cell soma migration defects were associated with the coordinate downregulation of multiple components of the planar cell polarity pathway including Fzd7, Wnt11, Prickle1, Vang1 and Vang2. Our study suggests that Tbx20 programs a variety of hindbrain motor neurons for migration, independent of directionality, and in facial neurons is a positive regulator of the non-canonical Wnt signaling pathway.

SUBMITTER: Song MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5851594 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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T-Box transcription factor Tbx20 regulates a genetic program for cranial motor neuron cell body migration.

Song Mi-Ryoung MR   Shirasaki Ryuichi R   Cai Chen-Leng CL   Ruiz Esmeralda C EC   Evans Sylvia M SM   Lee Soo-Kyung SK   Pfaff Samuel L SL  

Development (Cambridge, England) 20061201 24


Members of the T-box transcription factor family (Tbx) are associated with several human syndromes during embryogenesis. Nevertheless, their functions within the developing CNS remain poorly characterized. Tbx20 is expressed by migrating branchiomotor/visceromotor (BM/VM) neurons within the hindbrain during neuronal circuit formation. We examined Tbx20 function in BM/VM cells using conditional Tbx20-null mutant mice to delete the gene in neurons. Hindbrain rhombomere patterning and the initial g  ...[more]

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