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Vol. 16, No. 18, pp. 2339-2344, September 15, 2002

RESEARCH COMMUNICATION
Nodal activity in the node governs left-right asymmetry

Jane Brennan,1 Dominic P. Norris,2 and Elizabeth J. Robertson3

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, The Biological Laboratories, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

Nodal is expressed at the lateral edges of the mouse node, but its function in this "organizer" tissue remains unknown due to the early lethality of Nodal mutant embryos. Here we used a genetic strategy to selectively remove Nodal activity from the node. Embryos lacking Nodal in the node fail to initiate molecular asymmetry in the left lateral plate mesoderm and exhibit multiple left-right patterning defects. Nodal may also act as a short-range signal to establish a functional midline barrier. Our findings confirm that the mouse node is instrumental in initiating left-right axis specification and identify Nodal as the key morphogen regulating this process.

[Key Words: Nodal; node; left-right asymmetry; isomerism; lateral plate mesoderm; mouse]


Present addresses: 1Centre for Genome Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JQ, UK.; 2Medical Research Council Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RD, UK.

3 Corresponding author.


GENES & DEVELOPMENT 16:2339-2344 © 2002 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press  ISSN 0890-9369/02 $5.00

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