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Molecular and Cellular Biology, December 2001, p. 8329-8335, Vol. 21, No. 24
0270-7306/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/MCB.21.24.8329-8335.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Loss of mRor1 Enhances the Heart and Skeletal
Abnormalities in mRor2-Deficient Mice: Redundant and
Pleiotropic Functions of mRor1 and mRor2 Receptor Tyrosine
Kinases
Masashi
Nomi,1
Isao
Oishi,1
Shuichi
Kani,1
Hiroaki
Suzuki,1
Takeru
Matsuda,1
Akinori
Yoda,1
Makiko
Kitamura,2
Kyoko
Itoh,2
Shigeto
Takeuchi,1
Kiyoshi
Takeda,3
Shizuo
Akira,3
Makoto
Ikeya,4,
Shinji
Takada,4,5 and
Yasuhiro
Minami1,*
Department of Genome Sciences1 and
Department of Biomedical Informatics,2
Kobe University, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, Department of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial
Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka
565-0871,3 Center for Molecular and
Developmental Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto
University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502,4 and
Kondoh Differentiation Signalling Project, ERATO
(Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology) of Japan Science and
Technology Corporation (JST), Sakyo-ku, Kyoto
606-8305,5 Japan
Received 25 June 2001/Accepted 10 September 2001
The mammalian Ror family of receptor tyrosine kinases
consists of two structurally related proteins, Ror1 and Ror2. We have shown that mRor2-deficient mice exhibit widespread
skeletal abnormalities, ventricular septal defects in the heart, and
respiratory dysfunction, leading to neonatal lethality (S. Takeuchi, K. Takeda, I. Oishi, M. Nomi, M. Ikeya, K. Itoh, S. Tamura, T. Ueda, T. Hatta, H. Otani, T. Terashima, S. Takada, H. Yamamura, S. Akira,
and Y. Minami, Genes Cells 5:71-78, 2000). Here we show that
mRor1-deficient mice have no apparent skeletal or
cardiac abnormalities, yet they also die soon after birth due to
respiratory dysfunction. Interestingly, mRor1/mRor2 double mutant mice show
markedly enhanced skeletal abnormalities compared with
mRor2 mutant mice. Furthermore, double mutant mice also
exhibit defects not observed in mRor2 mutant mice,
including a sternal defect, dysplasia of the symphysis of the pubic
bone, and complete transposition of the great arteries. These results
indicate that mRor1 and mRor2 interact
genetically in skeletal and cardiac development.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Genome Sciences (Division of Biomedical Regulation), Kobe University, Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan. Phone: 81-78-382-5560. Fax: 81-78-382-5579. E-mail: minami{at}kobe-u.ac.jp.

Present address: Department of Medical Embryology and Neurobiology,
Institute for Frontier Medical Science, Kyoto University,
Sakyo-ku,
Kyoto 606-8507,
Japan.
Molecular and Cellular Biology, December 2001, p. 8329-8335, Vol. 21, No. 24
0270-7306/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/MCB.21.24.8329-8335.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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