The patterning of repeated structures is a major theme in developmental biology, and the inter-relationship between spacing and size of such structures is an unresolved issue. Fungiform papillae are repeated epithelial structures that house taste buds on the anterior tongue. Here, we report that FGF signaling is a crucial regulator of fungiform papillae development. We found that mesenchymal FGF10 controls the size of the papillary area, while overall patterning remains unchanged. Our results show that FGF signaling negatively affects the extent of canonical Wnt signaling, which is the main activation pathway during fungiform papillae development; however, this effect does not occur at the level of gene transcription. Rather, our experimental data, together with computational modeling, indicate that FGF10 modulates the range of Wnt effects, likely via induction of Sostdc1 expression. We suggest that modification of the reach of Wnt signaling could be due to local changes in morphogen diffusion, representing a novel mechanism in this tissue context, and we propose that this phenomenon might be involved in a broader array of mammalian developmental processes.

Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City KS 66160 USA

Department of Orofacial Sciences and Program in Craniofacial Biology University of California San Francisco San Francisco CA 94143 USA

Department of Pediatrics and Institute for Human Genetics University of California San Francisco San Francisco CA 94143 USA

Developmental Biology Program Institute of Biotechnology University of Helsinki PO Box 56 Helsinki FIN 00014 Finland

Institute of Molecular Genetics of the CAS v v i Czech Centre for Phenogenomics and Laboratory of Transgenic Models of Diseases Division BIOCEV Prumyslova 595 Vestec 252 42 Czech Republic

Stowers Institute for Medical Research Kansas City MO 64110 USA

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