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six3b  -  SIX homeobox 3b

Danio rerio

Synonyms: SIX3, SO:0000704, cb347, six3.2, six6
 
 
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High impact information on six3b

  • Our results suggest that the vertebrate Six3 genes are involved in the formation of the rostral forebrain [1].
  • Zebrafish six3 transcripts are first seen in hypoblast cells in early gastrula embryos and are found in the anterior axial mesendoderm through gastrulation. six3 expression in the head ectoderm begins at late gastrula [1].
  • The telencephalon of six3b and six3a double morphant (six3 morphant) embryos is markedly reduced in size due to impaired cellular proliferation [2].
  • On the other hand, overexpression of the repressor form of Six3 or wild-type Six3 showed phenotypes opposite to those of the activator form [3].
  • Point-mutations in the eh1-related motifs in Six3 reduced both its eye and forebrain enlarging activities and its interaction with Grg3 [3].
 

Anatomical context of six3b

  • The early adenohypophysis anlage of normal zebrafish expresses lim3 and six3 but in yot(ty119) mutants the anterior part of the anlage lacks lim3 expression, and instead produces a crystallin-expressing cell population which develops into a large lens structure expressing beta and gamma-crystallins, but is not associated with retina tissues [4].
  • Our results indicate that reduction in Brg1 expression leads to the expansion of the forebrain-specific transcription factor, six3, and marked reduction in expression of the mid/hind-brain boundary and hind-brain genes, engrailed2 and krox20, respectively [5].

References

  1. Overexpression of the forebrain-specific homeobox gene six3 induces rostral forebrain enlargement in zebrafish. Kobayashi, M., Toyama, R., Takeda, H., Dawid, I.B., Kawakami, K. Development (1998) [Pubmed]
  2. Lhx2 mediates the activity of Six3 in zebrafish forebrain growth. Ando, H., Kobayashi, M., Tsubokawa, T., Uyemura, K., Furuta, T., Okamoto, H. Dev. Biol. (2005) [Pubmed]
  3. The homeobox protein Six3 interacts with the Groucho corepressor and acts as a transcriptional repressor in eye and forebrain formation. Kobayashi, M., Nishikawa, K., Suzuki, T., Yamamoto, M. Dev. Biol. (2001) [Pubmed]
  4. Zebrafish mutations in Gli-mediated hedgehog signaling lead to lens transdifferentiation from the adenohypophysis anlage. Kondoh, H., Uchikawa, M., Yoda, H., Takeda, H., Furutani-Seiki, M., Karlstrom, R.O. Mech. Dev. (2000) [Pubmed]
  5. Critical role of Brg1 member of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex during neurogenesis and neural crest induction in zebrafish. Eroglu, B., Wang, G., Tu, N., Sun, X., Mivechi, N.F. Dev. Dyn. (2006) [Pubmed]
 
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