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Many pancreatic transcription factors that are essential for islet cell differentiation have been well characterized; however, because they are often expressed in several different cell populations, their functional hierarchy remains unclear. To parse out the spatiotemporal regulation of islet cell differentiation, we used a  Neurog3-Cre  allele to ablate  Nkx2.2 , one of the earliest and most broadly expressed islet transcription factors, specifically in the Neurog3 +  endocrine progenitor lineage ( Nkx2.2 △endo  ). Remarkably, many essential components of the β cell transcriptional network that were down-regulated in the  Nkx2.2 KO   mice, were maintained in the  Nkx2.2 △endo   mice - yet the  Nkx2.2 △endo   mice displayed defective β cell differentiation and recapitulated the  Nkx2.2 KO   phenotype. This suggests that Nkx2.2 is not only required in the early pancreatic progenitors, but has additional essential activities within the endocrine progenitor population. Consistently, we demonstrate Nkx2.2 functions as an integral component of a modular regulatory program to correctly specify pancreatic islet cell fates.

Genetic evidence that Nkx2.2 acts primarily downstream of Neurog3 in pancreatic endocrine lineage development