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Progress in understanding the vertebrate segmentation clock
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The segmentation clock is a molecular oscillator that regulates the periodic formation of somites from the presomitic mesoderm during vertebrate embryogenesis. Synchronous oscillatory expression of a Hairy homologue or Hairy-related basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcriptional repressor in presomitic mesoderm cells regulates periodic expression of downstream factors that control somite segmentation with a periodicity that varies across species. Although many of the key components of the clock have been identified and characterized, less is known about how the clock is synchronized across cells and how species-specific periodicity is achieved. Advances in live imaging, stem cell and organoid technologies, and synthetic approaches have started to uncover the detailed mechanisms underlying these aspects of somitogenesis, providing insight into how morphogenesis is coordinated in space and time during embryonic development.
Keywords:
PRESOMITIC MESODERM
LUNATIC FRINGE
GENE-EXPRESSION
METABOLIC MATURATION
FLUORESCENT PROTEIN
SYMMETRY-BREAKING
NOTCH ACTIVATION
RETINOIC ACID
MOUSE
SOMITE
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