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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 104, Issue 14, Pages 5907-5912Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0701122104
Keywords
homeobox gene; muscle development
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- NIEHS NIH HHS [P30 ES00210, P30 ES000210] Funding Source: Medline
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Pitx2 expression is observed during all states of the myogenic progression in embryonic muscle anlagen and persists in adult muscle. Pitx2 mutant mice form all but a few muscle anlagen. Loss or degeneration in muscle anlagen could generally be attributed to the loss of a muscle attachment site induced by some other aspect of the Pitx2 phenotype. Muscles derived from the first branchial arch were absent, whereas muscles derived from the second branchial arch were merely distorted in Pitx2 mutants at midgestation. Pitx2 was expressed well before, and was required for, initiation of the myogenic progression in the first, but not second, branchial arch mesoderm. Pitx2 was also required for expression of premyoblast specification markers Tbx1, Tcf21, and Msc in the first, but not second, branchial arch. First, but not second, arch mesoderm of Pitx2 mutants failed to enlarge after embryonic day 9.5, well before the onset of the myogenic progression. Thus, Pitx2 contributes to specification of first, but not second, arch mesoderm. The jaw of Pitx2 mutants was vestigial by midgestation, but significant size reductions were observed as early as embryonic day 10.5. The diminutive first branchial arch of mutants could not be explained by loss of mesoderm alone, suggesting that Pitx2 contributes to the earliest specification of jaw itself.
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