ニフジ アキラ   Nifuji Akira
  二藤 彰
   所属   鶴見大学  歯学部 歯学科 薬理学
   職種   教授
論文種別 【査読あり】 研究論文(学術雑誌)
言語種別 英語
査読の有無 査読あり
表題 Bone morphogenetic protein regulation of forkhead/winged helix transcription factor Foxc2 (Mfh1) in a murine mesodermal cell line C1 and in skeletal precursor cells
掲載誌名 正式名:JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH
ISSNコード:08840431
出版社 WILEY-BLACKWELL
巻・号・頁 16(10),pp.1765-1771
著者・共著者 A Nifuji,N Miura,N Kato,O Kellermann,M Noda
発行年月 2001/10
概要 Mfh1/Foxc2 is a member offorkhead/winged helix transcription factor family in which its members serve as key regulators in embryogenesis and cell differentiation in various species. Mutant mice null for Mfh1 show defects in axial and cranial skeletogenesis, suggesting requirement of Mfh1 for skeletal tissue development. However, the roles of Mfh1 and its regulation during early skeletogenesis have not been understood fully yet. In this study, we investigated developmental regulation of Mfh1 expression during embryonic skeletogenesis in vivo and in vitro chondrogenic cell differentiation using a mesodermal progenitor-like cell line C1. We first examined expression patterns of Mfh1 in relation to the cartilage phenotype-related molecules including bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) during mouse embryogenesis by in situ hybridization. In 10.5 days postcoitum (dpc) mouse limb, Mfh1 messenger RNA (mRNA) was expressed in the mesenchymal cells in the tissues that later give rise to skeleton. In 11.5 dpc embryos, Mfh1 transcripts were expressed in the cell condensation of skeletal blastemas. BMP2 transcripts were expressed in the cell condensation proximal to the Mfh1-expressing cells in