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During pancreatic organogenesis endocrine cells arise from non self-renewing progenitors that express Ngn3. The precursors that give rise to Ngn3 +  cells are presumably located within duct-like structures. However, the nature of such precursors is poorly understood. We show that, at E13–E18, the embryonic stage during which the major burst of β-cell neogenesis takes place, pancreatic duct cells express Hnf1β, the product of the maturity-onset diabetes of the young type 5 (MODY5) gene. Ngn3 +  cells at this stage invariably cluster with mitotically competent Hnf1β +  cells, and are often intercalated with these cells in the epithelium that lines the lumen of primitive ducts. We present several observations that collectively indicate that Hnf1β +  cells are the immediate precursors of Ngn3 +  cells. We furthermore show that Hnf1β expression is markedly reduced in early pancreatic epithelial cells of  Hnf6 -deficient mice, in which formation of Ngn3 +  cells is defective. These findings define a precursor cellular stage of the embryonic pancreas and place Hnf1β in a genetic hierarchy that regulates the generation of pancreatic endocrine cells.

Hnf6 and Tcf2 (MODY5) are linked in a gene network operating in a precursor cell domain of the embryonic pancreas