Review
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 4, 587-598 (July 2003) | doi:10.1038/nrn1142
Half a century of neural prepatterning: the story of a few bristles and many genes
José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta1, Sonsoles Campuzano1 & Juan Modolell1 About the authors
Abstract
In 1954, Curt Stern proposed the concept of the neural prepattern, meaning the underlying positional information in an undifferentiated epithelium that determined where neural differentiation could take place. Subsequent work gave a molecular basis to this concept, which was equated to a combination of transcription factors deployed in partially overlapping spatial domains that regulated proneural genes and, thereby, neural differentiation. Here, we review the work that, in the past few years, has identified many prepattern genes and has disclosed that their function is not limited to the regulation of proneural genes.
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Author affiliations
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
Correspondence to: Juan Modolell1 Email: jmodol@cbm.uam.es
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