Dicer activity in neural crest cells is essential for craniofacial organogenesis and pharyngeal arch artery morphogenesis.

abstract：:The cloning of a Pax6 orthologue from the sepiolid squid Euprymna scolopes and its developmental expression pattern are described. The data are consistent with the presence of a single gene encoding a protein with highly conserved DNA-binding paired and homeodomains. A detailed expression analysis by in situ hybridiza...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Hartmann B,Lee PN,Kang YY,Tomarev S,de Couet HG,Callaerts P

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:Five chick homeodomain proteins (CHOXs), CHOX-1.7, -1.1, -1.4, -4.2 and -2.6, had different transcription-regulating activities in a chick cultured cell line, LMH. In particular, CHOX-1.7 highly activated transcription when NP6 was used as the target site whereas CHOX-1.4 did not. This was mainly due to differences in...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Sasaki H,Yamamoto M,Kuroiwa A

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian cell culture studies have shown that several members of the nuclear receptor super family such as glucocorticoid receptor, retinoic acid receptor and thyroid hormone receptor can repress the activity of AP-1 proteins by a mechanism that does not require the nuclear receptor to bind to DNA directly, but that ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Gritzan U,Weiss C,Brennecke J,Bohmann D

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a screen for receptor tyrosine kinase genes regionally expressed in the developing hindbrain, we cloned and characterised the chicken ret gene. Data derived from studies of congenital human disease and from disruption of murine ret have demonstrated roles for ret in development of the kidney and enteric nervous sys...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Robertson K,Mason I

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the TGFbeta superfamily of signalling molecules play important roles in mesendoderm induction and dorsoventral patterning of the vertebrate embryo. We cloned three intracellular mediators of TGFbeta signalling, smad1, 2 and 5, from the zebrafish. The three smad genes are expressed ubiquitously at the onset ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Müller F,Blader P,Rastegar S,Fischer N,Knöchel W,Strähle U

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mll, Brg1 and Brm are vertebrate homologues of Drosophila trithorax group (trxG) genes. We isolated chicken Mll cDNA clones, and examined patterns of Mll, Brg1 and Brm expression in chick embryos. All three genes were expressed from embryonic stage 2 onwards. Mll transcripts were just detectable in all tissues by in s...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Schofield J,Isaac A,Golovleva I,Crawley A,Goodwin G,Tickle C,Brickell P

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hallmark of germline cells throughout the animal kingdom is their ability to execute meiosis. However, despite its prime importance, little is known about how germline progenitors acquire this ability. In Drosophila, the primordial germ cells (PGCs) are characterized by the inheritance of germ plasm, which contains ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Mukai M,Hayashi Y,Kitadate Y,Shigenobu S,Arita K,Kobayashi S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

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：:Dystroglycan is a transmembrane receptor protein that provides a structural linkage between extracellular matrix components and cytoskeletal proteins. It was originally characterized as a member of dystrophin associated protein complex in muscle but, unlike other proteins of this complex, mutations in the dystroglycan...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Lunardi A,Dente L

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterizing endogenous protein expression, interaction and function, this study identifies in vivo interactions and competitive balance between N-cadherin and E-cadherin in developing avian (Gallus gallus) neural and neural crest cells. Numerous cadherin proteins, including neural cadherin (Ncad) and epithelial cad...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Rogers CD,Sorrells LK,Bronner ME

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DCC (deleted in colon cancer), Neogenin and UNC-5 are all members of the immunoglobulin superfamily of transmembrane receptors which are believed to play a role in axon guidance by binding to their ligands, the Netrin/UNC-40 family of secreted molecules (Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 56 (1999) 62; Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 7 (19...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Hjorth JT,Gad J,Cooper H,Key B

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recessive mutant mouse jumonji (jmj), obtained by a gene trap strategy, shows neural tube defects in approximately half of homozygotes with a Balb/cA and 129/Ola mixed background. Here, we show that no neural tube defects are observed with a Balb/cA background. We also found hypoplasia of the liver, thymus and spl...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Motoyama J,Kitajima K,Kojima M,Kondo S,Takeuchi T

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DEADSouth was selected in a screen for localized RNAs in Xenopus oocytes. In situ hybridization analysis shows that DEADSouth localizes to the vegetal cortex via the mitochondrial cloud early in oogenesis and segregates with germ plasm during early embryogenesis. These results lend further support for the general conc...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： MacArthur H,Houston DW,Bubunenko M,Mosquera L,King ML

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In situ hybridization of mouse embryo whole mounts and sagittal sections revealed a tissue- and stage-specific expression pattern of the transcriptionally regulated serum and glucocorticoid-inducible protein kinase (sgk) during embryogenesis. Sgk expression is first observed at embryonic day 8.5 (E8.5) in the decidua ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Lee E,Lein ES,Firestone GL

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrulation in vertebrates is a highly dynamic process driven by convergent extension movements of internal mesodermal cells, under the regulatory activity of the Spemann-Mangold or gastrula organizer. In a large-scale screen for genes expressed in the organizer, we have isolated a novel gene, termed Xmc, an acronym ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Frazzetto G,Klingbeil P,Bouwmeester T

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:We report the cloning and expression of a novel murine forkhead/winged helix family member--Foxn4--that is expressed during neural development in the retina, the ventral hindbrain and spinal cord and dorsal midbrain. Retinal Foxn4 expression is associated with the zone of proliferating progenitor cells. In the mouse m...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Gouge A,Holt J,Hardy AP,Sowden JC,Smith HK

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to dissect the MHC class I H-2K gene regulatory sequences, we p reviously generated transgenic mice containing various H-2K/lacZ fusion genes. However contrary to transgenes where H-2K sequences were fused to other coding sequences, none of the lacZ fusion transgenes was widely ex pressed like H-2K gene. We n...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Cohen-Tannoudji M,Vandormael-Pournin S,Drezen J,Mercier P,Babinet C,Morello D

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cbl family of proteins act as E3 ubiquitin-protein ligases and have been associated with the down regulation of a variety of receptor tyrosine kinases. Cbl proteins associate with many different cell signalling molecules suggesting that they may have functions outside of the RING finger-mediated ubiquitin ligase a...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Hime GR,Abud HE,Garner B,Harris KL,Robertson H

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During vertebrate eye development, the expression of the homeobox gene Six6 is restricted to the neural retina and is initiated later than Rx and Pax6 in the presumptive retina field. We show here that overexpression of mouse Six6 in Xenopus embryos can induce transformation of competent tissue of the anterior neural ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Bernier G,Panitz F,Zhou X,Hollemann T,Gruss P,Pieler T

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal sexual differentiation in the genital organs is essential for the animal species that use sexual reproduction. Although it is known that doublesex (dsx) is required for the sexual development of the genitalia in various insect species, the direct target genes responsible for the sexual differentiation of the ge...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Wagamitsu S,Takase D,Aoki F,Suzuki MG

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a systematic screen for mutations affecting the trajectory of axons visualized by immunohistochemical staining of Medaka embryos with anti-acetylated tubulin antibody. Among the mutations identified, yanagi (yan) and kazura (kaz) mutations caused specific defects in projection of the posterior lateral lin...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Yasuoka A,Hirose Y,Yoda H,Aihara Y,Suwa H,Niwa K,Sasado T,Morinaga C,Deguchi T,Henrich T,Iwanami N,Kunimatsu S,Abe K,Kondoh H,Furutani-Seiki M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the identification and expression pattern of Xenopus frizzled 4 (Xfz4) gene during early development. Xfz4 protein presents characteristic features of a frizzled family member. The mature protein sequence of Xfz4 is 93% identical to murine Mfz4. Xfz4 is a maternal mRNA, its expression level remains constan...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Shi DL,Boucaut JC

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian embryos develop in coordination with extraembryonic tissues, which support embryonic development by implanting embryos into the uterus, supplying nutrition, providing a confined niche, and also providing patterning signals to embryos. Here, we show that in mouse embryos, the expansion of the amniotic cavity ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Imuta Y,Koyama H,Shi D,Eiraku M,Fujimori T,Sasaki H

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear orphan receptors are DNA binding proteins that share the domain structure of the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily, although ligands are unknown. We have identified an orphan receptor in Xenopus laevis and named it xGCNF based on its high degree of sequence homology to the previously described murine germ c...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Joos TO,David R,Dreyer C

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal liver is the major embryonic hematopoietic organ and is extrinsically colonized by circulating hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Integrin beta-1 expression on HSCs is crucial for colonization, suggesting that interaction of Integrin beta-1 with extra-cellular matrix (ECM) factors promotes HSC adherence to fetal l...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Sugiyama D,Kulkeaw K,Mizuochi C

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report the use of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) and morpholino technologies to specifically 'knock down' gene expression in early postimplantation mouse embryos. Sequence specific interference mediated by either dsRNA or by morpholino has been a useful tool for studying gene function in several organisms. Howeve...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Mellitzer G,Hallonet M,Chen L,Ang SL

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that aberrantly expressed gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) and its receptor (GRP-R) critically regulate tumor cell differentiation in colon cancers developing in humans and mice. This finding suggested that the ability of GRP/GRP-R to promote a well-differentiated phenotype in colon cancer mig...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Carroll RE,Matkowskyj K,Saunthararajah Y,Sekosan M,Battey JF,Benya RV

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new family of homeodomain proteins has recently been identified that includes extradenticle, ceh-20 and three mammalian proteins Pbx1, Pbx2 and Pbx3. We show here that two members of this family, Pbx1 and Pbx2 bind cooperatively to DNA with both Hoxb-7 and Hoxb-8. Engrailed-2 modulates the DNA binding activity of th...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： van Dijk MA,Peltenburg LT,Murre C

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00