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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Volume 232, Issue 2, Pages 372-387Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2001.0200
Keywords
secreted protein; chordin; BMP inhibitor; embryogenesis; embryonic stem cell; dorsalizing factor; skeletogenesis; mesenchymal cell; chondrocyte; organogenesis
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Chordin is a bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) inhibitor that has been identified as a factor dorsalizing the Xenopus embryo. A novel secreted protein, CHL (for chordin-like), with significant homology to chordin, was isolated from mouse bone marrow stromal cells. Injection of CHL RNA into Xenopus embryos induced a secondary axis. Recombinant CHL protein inhibited the BMP4-dependent differentiation of embryonic stem cells in vitro and interacted directly with BMPs, similar to chordin. However, CHL also weakly bound to TGF betas. In situ hybridization revealed that the mouse CHL gene, located on the X chromosome, was expressed predominantly in mesenchyme-derived cell types: (1) the dermatome and limb bud mesenchyme and, later, the subdermal mesenchyme and the chondrocytes of the developing skeleton during embryogenesis and (2) a layer of fibroblasts/connective tissue cells in the gastrointestinal tract, the thick straight segments of kidney tubules, and the marrow stromal cells in adults. An exception was expression in the neural cells of the olfactory bulb and cerebellum. Interestingly, the spatiotemporal expression patterns of CHL were distinct from those of chordin in many areas examined. Thus, CHL may serve as an important BMP regulator for differentiating mesenchymal cells, especially during skeletogenesis, and for developing specific neurons. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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