Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Redundant roles of Sox17 and Sox18 in early cardiovascular development of mouse embryos
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Materials and methods
Animals and genotyping. Sox17/Sox18 double mutant animals (the mixed background of C57BL/6, 129sv and CD1 strains) were generated by interbreeding Sox17+/−-Sox18+/− mice obtained by crossing Sox17+/−[16] and Sox18−/−[13] mice. The embryos of Sox17−/−/Sox18−/− and Sox17−/−/Sox18+/+ mutants (8.25–9.0 dpc) were obtained from the pregnant Sox17+/−/Sox18+/− females by crossing with Sox17+/−/Sox18−/− or Sox17+/−/Sox18+/+ males. Genomic DNA from tail tips or yolk sac was isolated using a Wizard genomic
Aberrant heart looping and enlarged cardinal veins in Sox17-null embryos at early-somite stages
Our previous study demonstrated that Sox17-null embryos display defective formation of the definitive endoderm and subsequently show no axis turning with poor posterior trunk development, resulting in embryonic lethality before 10.5 dpc [16]. In order to clarify the influence of the Sox17-single null mutation on early cardiovascular development, we first examined the phenotype of Sox17−/−(/Sox18+/+) embryos as compared with the wildtype embryos at early-somite stages (8.0–8.75 dpc), before the
Acknowledgments
The authors thank Ms. I. Yagihashi for technical and secretarial support. This work was supported by financial grants from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan to Y. Kanai (B-17380175, B-19380168, PA-16086203) and M. Kanai-Azuma (PA-16027247). This work was also supported by financial grants from National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and National Heart Foundation of Australia to P. Koopman, and from the Eccles Program in Human Molecular Biology and
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