A re-examination of proximodistal patterning during vertebrate limb development

Andrew T. Dudley, María A. Ros and Clifford J. Tabin ()
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Andrew T. Dudley: Harvard Medical School
María A. Ros: Universidad de Cantabria
Clifford J. Tabin: Harvard Medical School

Nature, 2002, vol. 418, issue 6897, 539-544

Abstract: Abstract The ‘progress zone’ model provides a framework for understanding progressive development of the vertebrate limb1. This model holds that undifferentiated cells in a zone of fixed size at the distal tip of the limb bud (the progress zone) undergo a progressive change in positional information such that their specification is altered from more proximal to more distal fates. This positional change is thought to be driven by an internal clock that is kept active as long as the cells remain in the progress zone. However, owing to cell division, the most proximal of these cells are continually pushed outside the confines of the zone. As they exit, clock function ceases and cells become fixed with the positional value last attained while within the zone. In contrast to this model, our data suggest that the various limb segments are ‘specified’ early in limb development as distinct domains, with subsequent development involving expansion of these progenitor populations before differentiation. We also find, however, that the distal limb mesenchyme becomes progressively ‘determined’, that is, irreversibly fixed, to a progressively limited range of potential proximodistal fates.

Date: 2002
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