Michael Cohen, James Briscoe, Robert Blassberg
MRC-National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK.
Current opinion in genetics & development 2013 AugThe spatial organization of cell fates in developing tissues often involves the control of transcriptional networks by morphogen gradients. A well-studied example of this is the Sonic-hedgehog (Shh) controlled pattern of neuronal subtype differentiation in the vertebrate neural tube. Here we discuss recent studies involving genome wide analyses, functional experiments and theoretical models that have begun to characterise the molecular logic by which neural cells interpret Shh signalling. The view that emerges from this work is that cell identity results from the combined input of Shh signalling, uniformly expressed neural factors and the cross-regulatory network of downstream Shh target genes. A similar logic is also likely to underpin the patterning of many developing tissues. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Michael Cohen, James Briscoe, Robert Blassberg. Morphogen interpretation: the transcriptional logic of neural tube patterning. Current opinion in genetics & development. 2013 Aug;23(4):423-8
PMID: 23725799
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