期刊
MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 115, 期 1, 页码 87-92出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(03)00094-9
关键词
cholesterol; steroid; sonic hedgehog; embryonic development; apoptosis; HMG-CoA reductase; Nsdh1; Ebp; Dhcr7
Cholesterol biosynthesis has been assumed to be an ubiquitous process in vertebrate organisms. Here we present data demonstrating that expression of key enzymes of cholesterol biosynthesis is restricted to specific tissues during embryonic development. Distinct expression starts in the dorsal neural tube at embryonic day 8 and is later detected in dorsal root and cephalic ganglia, in the pharyngeal pouches and limb buds. In the limb, expression becomes progressively restricted to interdigital regions during differentiation. Caspase3 whole mount immunostaining revealed that cholesterol biosynthesis colocalizes with apoptotic regions that are targets of the morphogenic signal Sonic hedgehog. This expression pattern correlates closely with the shared phenotypic features of cholesterol biosynthesis and hedgehog mutants. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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