Genetic Analysis of the Roles of BMP2, BMP4, and BMP7 in Limb Patterning and Skeletogenesis
By Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, K. Tsuji, K. Cox, B. Harfe, V. Rosen, C. Tabin. PLoS Genetics, 2006
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Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) family members, including BMP2, BMP4, and BMP7, are expressed throughout limb development. BMPs have been implicated in early limb patterning as well as in the process of skeletogenesis. However, due to complications associated with early embryonic lethality, particularly for Bmp2 and Bmp4, and with functional redundancy among BMP molecules, it has been difficult to decipher the specific roles of these BMP molecules during different stages of limb development. To circumvent these issues, we have constructed a series of mouse strains lacking one or more of these BMPs, using conditional alleles in the case of Bmp2 and Bmp4 to remove them specifically from the limb bud mesenchyme. Contrary to earlier suggestions, our results indicate that BMPs neither act as secondary signals downstream of Sonic Hedghog (SHH) in patterning the anteroposterior axis nor as signals from the interdigital mesenchyme in specifying digit identity. We do find that a threshold level of BMP signaling is required for the onset of chondrogenesis, and hence some chondrogenic condensations fail to form in limbs deficient in both BMP2 and BMP4. However, in the condensations that do form, subsequent chondrogenic differentiation proceeds normally even in the absence of BMP2 and BMP7 or BMP2 and BMP4. In contrast, we find that the loss of both BMP2 and BMP4 results in a severe impairment of osteogenesis.
Subfields: Developmental Biology, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology
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- Building strong bones: molecular regulation of the osteoblast lineage (2011, background): “Knockout experiments showed that a critical threshold level of BMP2 and BMP4 signalling is required for differentiation to mature osteoblasts and that this is mediated by controlling the transition from RUNX2 + to RUNX2 + OSX + cells through an unknown mechanis”
- Development of the endochondral skeleton. (2013, background): “Indeed, simultaneous deletion of Bmp2 and Bmp4 in prechondrogenic limb mesenchyme (with Prx1-Cre)3 led to the loss of zeugopod elements and to defective joint articulations (Bandyopadhyay et al. 2006).”