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PMID:8543156
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Schonemann, MD, Ryan, AK, McEvilly, RJ, O'Connell, SM, Arias, CA, Kalla, KA, Li, P, Sawchenko, PE and Rosenfeld, MG (1995) Development and survival of the endocrine hypothalamus and posterior pituitary gland requires the neuronal POU domain factor Brn-2. Genes Dev. 9:3122-35 |
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| Abstract |
Neurons comprising the endocrine hypothalamus are disposed in several nuclei that develop in tandem with their ultimate target the pituitary gland, and arise from a primordium in which three related class III POU domain factors, Brn-2, Brn-4, and Brn-1, are initially coexpressed. Subsequently, these factors exhibit stratified patterns of ontogenic expression, correlating with the appearance of distinct neuropeptides that define three major endocrine hypothalamic cell types. Strikingly, deletion of the Brn-2 genomic locus results in loss of endocrine hypothalamic nuclei and the posterior pituitary gland. Lack of Brn-2 does not affect initial hypothalamic developmental events, but instead results in a failure of differentiation to mature neurosecretory neurons of the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei, characterized by an inability to activate genes encoding regulatory neuropeptides or to make correct axonal projections, with subsequent loss of these neurons. Thus, both neuronal and endocrine components of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis are critically dependent on the action of specific POU domain factors at a penultimate step in the sequential events that underlie the appearance of mature cellular phenotypes. |
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Animals; Base Sequence; Cell Line; DNA Primers; Embryonic and Fetal Development; Homeodomain Proteins; Hypothalamus/embryology; Hypothalamus/metabolism; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Molecular Sequence Data; Neurons/metabolism; POU Domain Factors; Phenotype; Pituitary Gland, Posterior/embryology; Pituitary Gland, Posterior/metabolism; Transcription Factors/metabolism |
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