BRM (SNF2alpha) expression is concomitant to the onset of vasculogenesis in early mouse postimplantation development.

abstract：:Mammalian and Drosophila homologues of Baf57 have been previously isolated as being a subunit of SWI/SNF-like chromatin remodeling complexes. Here, we report the cloning and developmental expression of Xenopus Baf57. We isolated XBaf57 by using an expression cloning approach to identify novel modulators of Xenopus Sma...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Domingos PM,Obukhanych TV,Altmann CR,Hemmati-Brivanlou A

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative vertebrate morphogen retinoic acid (RA) has been shown to induce expression of many mammalian homeobox genes in cell lines, suggesting expression of this gene family in developing vertebrate embryos may be controlled in part by RA. Using the teratocarcinoma cell line F9 as a model system, we have studied ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Langston AW,Gudas LJ

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the CFTR gene cause cystic fibrosis (CF) with myocardial dysfunction. However, it remains unknown whether CF-related heart disease is a secondary effect of pulmonary disease, or an intrinsic primary defect in the heart. Here, we used zebrafish, which lack lung tissue, to investigate the role of CFTR in ca...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Liu Y,Lin Z,Liu M,Liao H,Chen Y,Zhang X,Chan HC,Zhou B,Rao L,Sun H

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoic acid plays important roles in development, growth and differentiation by regulating the expression of target genes. A new retinoic acid-inducible gene, Stra6, has been identified in P19 embryonal carcinoma cells using a subtractive hybridization cDNA cloning technique. Stra6 codes for a very hydrophobic membr...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Bouillet P,Sapin V,Chazaud C,Messaddeq N,Décimo D,Dollé P,Chambon P

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Xenopus and zebrafish, BMP2, 4 and 7 have been implicated, after the onset of zygotic expression, in inducing and maintaining ventro-lateral cell fate during early development. We provide evidence here that a maternally expressed bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), Radar, may control early ventral specification in ze...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Goutel C,Kishimoto Y,Schulte-Merker S,Rosa F

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imitation Switch (ISWI) is a member of the SWI2/SNF2 superfamily of ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers, which regulate transcription and maintain chromatin structure by mobilizing nucleosomes using the energy of ATP. Four distinct ISWI complexes have been identified in Xenopus oocytes. The developmental role of Xenopu...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Dirscherl SS,Henry JJ,Krebs JE

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyse the possible roles of Drosophila tumour suppressor genes, 1(2)gl and 1(2)gd, in differentiation programmes of imaginal cells, we investigated their interactions with two segment polarity genes, viz., cubitus interruptus Dominant (ci-D) and engrailed (en), by examining their patterns of expression in tumouro...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Mukherjee A,Lakhotia SC,Roy JK

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ras protein activates at least three different pathways during early development. Two of them regulate mesodermal gene expression and the third is thought to participate in the control of actin cytoskeleton dynamics via the Ral protein. From a yeast two-hybrid screen of a Xenopus maternal cDNA library, we identifi...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Lebreton S,Boissel L,Iouzalen N,Moreau J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Drosophila embryo, a subset of muscles require expression and function of the RYK subfamily RTK gene derailed (drl) for correct attachment. We have isolated a second RYK homolog, doughnut (dnt), from Drosophila. The DNT protein exhibits 60% amino acid identity to DRL, and is structurally as similar to the mamma...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Oates AC,Bonkovsky JL,Irvine DV,Kelly LE,Thomas JB,Wilks AF

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the process of cloning murine proteins capable of binding to a regulatory module of the Ncam promoter, we isolated a novel homeobox gene, Barx1, the first vertebrate member of the structural subclass defined by Drosophila BarH1. Here we report its sequence, chromosomal localisation and embryonic expression pattern....

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Tissier-Seta JP,Mucchielli ML,Mark M,Mattei MG,Goridis C,Brunet JF

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of mesoderm is an important developmental process of vertebrate embryos, which can be broken down into several steps; mesoderm induction, patterning, morphogenesis and differentiation. Although mesoderm formation in Xenopus has been intensively studied, much remains to be learned about the molecular even...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Chen JA,Voigt J,Gilchrist M,Papalopulu N,Amaya E

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Egr1 is a highly conserved zinc finger protein which plays important roles in many aspects of vertebrate development and in the adult. The cDNA coding for zebrafish Egr1 was obtained and its expression pattern was examined during zebrafish embryogenesis using whole-mount in situ hybridization. Egr1 mRNA is first detec...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Close R,Toro S,Martial JA,Muller M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial large rRNA (mtlrRNA) and small rRNA (mtsrRNA) have been identified as components of germinal granules in Drosophila. We have previously reported that mtlrRNA is present on the germinal granules in Xenopus embryos. Here we report that mtsrRNA is also a common component of the germinal granules. Extra-mito...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Kashikawa M,Amikura R,Kobayashi S

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of distal lung morphogenesis and vascular development would be greatly facilitated by an in vitro or ex vivo experimental model. In this study we show that the growth of mouse embryonic day 12.5 lung rudiments implanted underneath the kidney capsules of syngeneic or immunodeficient hosts follows closely lung...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Vu TH,Alemayehu Y,Werb Z

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fused (Fu) serine-threonine kinase and the Suppressor of fused (Su(fu)) product are part of the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway both in embryos and in imaginal discs. In wing imaginal discs, the Hh signal induces Cubitus interruptus (Ci) accumulation and activates patched (ptc) and decapentaplegic (dpp) expression...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Alves G,Limbourg-Bouchon B,Tricoire H,Brissard-Zahraoui J,Lamour-Isnard C,Busson D

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) genes are associated with congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT). As angiotensin (Ang) II, the principal effector peptide growth factor of the RAS, stimulates ureteric bud (UB) branching in whole intact embryonic (E) metanephroi, defects in UB morph...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Song R,Preston G,Yosypiv IV

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cDNAs encoding Myb-related proteins have been cloned from Xenopus laevis and they have been termed Xmyb1 and Xmyb2. The Xmyb1 cDNA clone codes for an open reading frame of 733 amino acids and exhibits a high degree of similarity over the entire predicted protein sequence with the human B-Myb protein. Xmyb2 is a pa...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Bouwmeester T,Güehmann S,el-Baradi T,Kalkbrenner F,van Wijk I,Moelling K,Pieler T

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the expression of three Runt-related RUNX genes (previously termed AML, Cbfa, or Pebp2alpha) Runx1 and Runx3 during the development of teeth and other craniofacial tissues and compare them to Runx2 expression reported earlier. All three genes were expressed in mesenchymal condensates. Runx1 was expressed i...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Yamashiro T,Aberg T,Levanon D,Groner Y,Thesleff I

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins of the Achaete/Scute (Ac/Sc) family are required for neurogenesis in both Drosophila and vertebrates. These transcription factors are commonly referred to as 'proneural' factors, as they promote neural fate in many contexts. Although Ac/Sc proteins have been studied in Hydra, jel...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Doonan R,Hatzold J,Raut S,Conradt B,Alfonso A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression pattern of the receptor tyrosine kinase gene EphB3 was examined during the early stages of chick embryogenesis, and is described in this report. In the gastrula, EphB3 is expressed in epiblast cells adjacent to and entering the anterior portion of the primitive streak; expression is extinguished once ce...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Baker RK,Vanderboom AK,Bell GW,Antin PB

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a novel chicken gene, cMespo, which encodes a basic-helix-loop-helix (bHLH) protein with sequence homology to a subgroup of bHLH transcription factors that have been implicated in somitogenesis. cMespo transcripts are first found in the primitive streak of gastrulating chick embryos (HH stage 4) and...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Buchberger A,Bonneick S,Arnold H

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Splotch mice, which harbour mutations in the Pax3 gene, exhibit neural crest-related abnormalities including pigmentation defects, reduced or absent dorsal root ganglia and failure of cardiac outflow tract septation in homozygotes. Although splotch neural crest cells fail to colonise target tissues, they initiate migr...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Henderson DJ,Ybot-Gonzalez P,Copp AJ

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the final stages of embryogenesis, the Drosophila embryo exhibits a dorsal hole covered by a simple epithelium of large cells termed the amnioserosa (AS). Dorsal closure is the process whereby this hole is closed through the coordination of cellular activities within both the AS and the epidermis. Genetic analy...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Fernández BG,Arias AM,Jacinto A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ActR-I is a type I serine/threonine kinase receptor which has been shown to bind activin and bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs). To study the function of ActR-I, we have generated novel monoclonal antibodies that specifically recognize the extracellular domain of mouse ActR-I. We examined the level of ActR-I protein d...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Yoshikawa SI,Aota S,Shirayoshi Y,Okazaki K

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeobox genes regulate multiple aspects of mouse development including the axial patterning in the central nervous system. Some of the more divergent members of this gene family are expressed in the anterior region of the central nervous system where the Hox genes are not expressed. We previously reported the isolati...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Lu S,Wise TL,Ruddle FH

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent development of transgenic methods for the frog Xenopus laevis provides the opportunity to study later developmental events, such as organogenesis, at the molecular level. Our studies have focused on the development of the tadpole gut, where tissue specific promoters have yet to be identified. We have used m...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Beck CW,Slack JM

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:extramacrochaetae (emc) functions during many developmental processes in Drosophila, such as sensory organ formation, sex determination, wing vein differentiation, regulation of eye photoreceptor differentiation, cell proliferation and development of the Malpighian tubules, trachea and muscles in the embryo. It encode...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Papadia S,Tzolovsky G,Zhao D,Leaper K,Clyde D,Taylor P,Asscher E,Kirk G,Bownes M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pebble (pbl) is required for cytokinesis during postblastoderm mitoses (Hime, G., Saint, R., 1992. Zygotic expression of the pebble locus is required for cytokinesis during the postblastoderm mitoses of Drosophila. Development 114, 165-171; Lehner, C.F., 1992. The pebble gene is required for cytokinesis in Drosophila....

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Prokopenko SN,Saint R,Bellen HJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the cloning, expression pattern and functional overexpression analysis of Xotx5b, a new member of the Otx gene family in Xenopus laevis. Early expression of Xotx5b resembles that of Xotx2, being detected in the organizer region at early gastrula stage, and, shortly after, also in anterior neuroectoderm. Du...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Vignali R,Colombetti S,Lupo G,Zhang W,Stachel S,Harland RM,Barsacchi G

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADAMs are multidomain cell surface proteins that function in receptor-ligand processing, cell adhesion and fusion, and signaling. SpADAM, a single copy sea urchin ADAM gene with a 3072 bp open reading frame, is expressed during embryonic and larval development. The deduced SpADAM protein is 1023 amino acids long and i...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Rise M,Burke RD

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00