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XB-ART-14745
Development 1998 Jul 01;12514:2533-43. doi: 10.1242/dev.125.14.2533.
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Diminished Sonic hedgehog signaling and lack of floor plate differentiation in Gli2 mutant mice.

Ding Q , Motoyama J , Gasca S , Mo R , Sasaki H , Rossant J , Hui CC .


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Floor plate cells at the midline of the neural tube are specified by high-level activity of Sonic hedgehog (Shh) secreted by notochord, whereas motor neurons are thought to be specified by a lower level activity of Shh secreted in turn by floor plate cells. In Drosophila, the Gli zinc finger protein Cubitus interruptus functions as a transcription factor activating Hedgehog-responsive genes. We report that the expression of known Shh-responsive genes such as Ptc and Gli1 is downregulated in mutant mice lacking Gli2 function. Gli2 mutants fail to develop a floor plate yet still develop motor neurons, which occupy the ventral midline of the neural tube. Our results imply that Gli2 is required to mediate high level but not low level Shh activity and show that the development of motor neurons can occur in the absence of floor plate induction.

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Species referenced: Xenopus
Genes referenced: gli1 gli2 shh