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The Journal of Neuroscience, May 25, 2005, 25(21):5097-5108; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0239-05.2005

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Emx2 and Pax6 Function in Cooperation with Otx2 and Otx1 to Develop Caudal Forebrain Primordium That Includes Future Archipallium

Jun Kimura,^1 * Yoko Suda,^1 * Daisuke Kurokawa,¹ Zakir M. Hossain,¹ Miwa Nakamura,¹ Maiko Takahashi,¹ Akemi Hara,² and Shinichi Aizawa¹

Laboratories for ¹Vertebrate Body Plan and ²Animal Resources and Genetic Engineering, Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN Kobe, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0047, Japan

One of the central issues in developmental neurobiology is how the forebrain is organized ontogenetically. The traditional view is that the anterior neuroectoderm first develops into mesencephalic and prosencephalic vesicles; the latter vesicle subsequently develops into the diencephalon and secondary prosencephalon, of which dorsal parts protrude to generate the telencephalon. The diencephalon yields the pretectum, thalamus, and prethalamus, and the telencephalon produces the archipallium, neopallium, and ganglionic eminences. By identifying cell descendants that once expressed Emx2 with use of the Cre knock-in mutant into the Emx2 locus and analyzing phenotypes of double mutants between Emx2 and Otx2/Otx1 and between Emx2 and Pax6, we propose that at the 3-6 somite stage, the anterior neuroectoderm develops into three primordia: midbrain, caudal forebrain, and rostral forebrain. The caudal forebrain primordium generates not only the pretectum, thalamus, and prethalamus but also the archipallium, cortical hem, choroid plexus, choroidal roof, and eminentia thalami. The primordium corresponds to the Emx2- or Pax6-positive region at the 3-6 somite stage that most probably does not include the future neopallium or commissural plate. Otx2 and Otx1 that are expressed in the entire future forebrain and midbrain cooperate with this Emx2 and Pax6 expression in the development of the caudal forebrain primordium; Emx2 and Pax6 functions are redundant. In the embryonic day 9.5 Emx2^-/-Pax6^-/- double mutant, the caudal forebrain remained unspecified and subsequently transformed into tectum in a mirror image of the endogenous one.

Key words: Emx2; Pax6; Otx2; forebrain; archipallium; diencephalon; tectum

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Received Jan 18, 2005; revised April 3, 2005; accepted April 3, 2005.

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