Abstract：
:Drosophila immunity and embryogenesis appear to be linked by an evolutionarily ancient signalling pathway, which includes the Rel-domain transcription factors Dif and dorsal, respectively, as well as a common inhibitor, cactus. Previous genetic screens have centered on maternal mutants that disrupt the dorsal pathway. In an effort to identify additional components that influence Rel-domain gene function we have conducted a search for immunodeficiency mutants in Drosophila. One such mutant, which maps near the Black cells (Bc) gene, causes a severe impairment of the normal immune response, including attenuated induction of several immunity genes. Survival assays indicate a positive correlation between the induction of these genes, particularly diptericin, and resistance to bacterial infection. These studies are consistent with the notion that insect anti-microbial peptides work synergistically by binding distinct targets within infecting pathogens. Evidence is also presented that non-specific acquired immunity results from the persistence of bacterial metabolites long after primary infection. We discuss the potential usefulness of this study with regard to the identification of conserved components of Rel signalling pathways.
journal_name
Mech Devjournal_title
Mechanisms of developmentauthors
Corbo JC,Levine Mdoi
10.1016/0925-4773(96)00506-0subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1996-04-01 00:00:00pages
211-20issue
2eissn
0925-4773issn
1872-6356pii
0925477396005060journal_volume
55pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:Mice with targeted disruption of the TGF beta 2 gene display defects in epithelial-mesenchymal tissue interactions in several tissues including the developing cochlea. Specifically, the region of the spiral limbus and the overlying interdental cells, structures putatively involved in endolymphatic fluid homeostasis, d...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00184-1
更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An enhancer sequence found in the Protease Nexin-1 (PN-1) gene was shown to drive lacZ expression specifically at the met-/mesencephalic junction in transgenic mouse embryos. A functional study of this enhancer has been performed to better understand the mechanisms regulating isthmic gene expression. An octamer-bindin...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(99)00067-2
更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A key role for phosphorylation of Smad2 by TGFβ superfamily ligands in the axial patterning of early embryos is well established. The regulation and role of Smad2 signaling in post-neurula embryonic patterning, however, is less well understood. While a variety of TGFβ superfamily ligands are implicated in various stag...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2010.08.004
更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The sex determining gene, Sry, determines the sex of the organism by initiating development of a testis rather than an ovary from the cells of the bipotential gonad. In the 10 years since the discovery of Sry, new genes and cellular pathways that operate in the establishment of the gonadal primordium and the initiatio...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(99)00327-5
更新日期：2000-03-15 00:00:00
abstract：:In the Drosophila embryo the nuclear localisation of Dorsal, a member of the Rel family, is regulated by an extracellular signal, which is transmitted to the interior of the egg cell by a cascade of proteins involving the novel protein Tube and the protein kinase Pelle. Here we analyse the activation mechanism of Tube...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00236-6
更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Members of the cysteine-rich protein (CRP) define a subclass of LIM-only proteins implicated mainly in muscle differentiation. Until now, very little is known concerning the expression of CRP encoding genes during vertebrate development. We describe here the isolation of a trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) gene encoding a c...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00127-0
更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in regulating gene expression during numerous biological/pathological processes. Dicer encodes an RNase III endonuclease that is essential for generating most, if not all, functional miRNAs. In this work, we applied a conditional gene inactivation approach to examine the functio...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2010.12.002
更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The transcription factor scleraxis (SCX) is expressed throughout tendon development and plays a key role in directing tendon wound healing. However, little is known regarding its role in fetal or young postnatal tendons, stages in development that are known for their enhanced regenerative capabilities. Here we used RN...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2020.103635
更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Here we present the cloning of a full-length zebrafish pdgfr-alpha cDNA as well as the expression of this gene during zebrafish embryogenesis. We show that zebrafish pdgfr-alpha mRNA is present at high levels in the fertilized egg as well as in all embryonic cells up to the end of gastrulation. Spatially restricted ex...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(02)00142-9
更新日期：2002-08-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0925-4773(94)90089-2
更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:XLPOU91, a POU-homeobox gene is expressed in a narrow window during early Xenopus development. We show that ectopic expression of XLPOU91 RNA causes severe posterior truncations in embryos without inhibiting the formation of Spemann's organizer. Ectopic XLPOU91 expression also inhibits mesoderm induction by fibroblast...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00006-9
更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Endothelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) that occurs during cardiac outflow tract (OFT) development is critical for formation of the semilunar valves. Fibulin-1 (Fbln1) is an extracellular matrix protein that is present at several sites of EMT, including the OFT (i.e., E9.5-10.5). The aim of this study was to deter...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2014.12.005
更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The products of the trithorax gene are required to stably maintain homeotic gene expression patterns established during embryo-genesis by the action of the transiently expressed segmentation genes. We have determined the intron/exon structure of the trx gene and the large alternatively spliced trx RNAs, which are capa...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0925-4773(95)00402-m
更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The gene crumbs (crb) of Drosophila encodes a transmembrane protein with 30 EGF-like and four laminin A G-domain-like repeats in its extracellular domain. Loss-of-function mutations lead to severe disorganization and degeneration of ectodermally derived embryonic epithelia. In embryos homozygous for crb8F105, an amorp...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0925-4773(93)90066-7
更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To investigate the origin and nature of the signals responsible for specification of the dermatomal lineage, excised axial organs in 2-day-old chick embryos were replaced by grafts of the dorsal neural tube, or the ventral neural tube plus the notochord, or aggregates of cells engineered to produce Sonic hedgehog (Shh...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(00)00540-2
更新日期：2001-02-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0925-4773(95)00394-g
更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We have isolated and characterized two complete cDNA clones, Zfz8a and Zfz8b, which encode zebrafish Frizzled (Fz) homologues. The predicted protein sequences, spanning 579 and 576 amino acid residues for ZFz8a and ZFz8b, respectively, were highly homologous (78%) to each other and contained an extracellular cysteine-...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00137-3
更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We describe the structural organization of a gene, termed XFDL 141/156, that is transiently activated during early Xenopus development. XFDL 141/156 is first transcribed at the midblastula transition (MBT) and during early gastrulation events. A roughly 200 nucleotide fragment immediately 5' to the transcription start...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(97)00034-8
更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The Notch effector E(spl)M8 is phosphorylated at Ser159 by CK2, a highly conserved Ser/Thr protein kinase. We have used the Gal4-UAS system to assess the role of M8 phosphorylation during bristle and eye morphogenesis by employing a non-phosphorylatable variant (M8SA) or one predicted to mimic the 'constitutively' pho...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2004.01.008
更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Proper metazoan mesoderm development requires the function of a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor, Twist. Twist-containing dimers regulate the expression of target genes by binding to E box promoter elements containing the site CANNTG. In Caenorhabditis elegans, CeTwist functions in a subset of mesode...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2007.01.005
更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The leucine zipper transcription factor TSC-22 (TGF-beta1 Stimulated Clone-22) was first isolated from a mouse osteoblast cell line as an immediate-early target gene of TGF-beta1. However, work with other cell lines, as well as with a Drosophila homolog, bunched, suggests that it is an effector gene of various growth ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(99)00055-6
更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The dual nature of pancreatic tissue permits both endocrine and exocrine functions. Enzymatic secretions by the exocrine pancreas help digestive processes while the pancreatic hormones regulate glucose homeostasis and energy metabolism. Pancreas organogenesis is defined by a conserved array of signaling pathways that ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2020.103647
更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The homeobox gene Six4/AREC3 is a member of the vertebrate Six family of transcription factor genes. In this study we describe the cloning and expression of three zebrafish homologues of Six4/AREC3, six4.1, six4.2 and six4.3. These zebrafish Six4 proteins show high homology to the mammalian Six4/AREC3 proteins in the ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(00)00451-2
更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Tribolium castaneum is a well-characterised model insect, whose short germ-band mode of embryonic development is characteristic of many insect species and differs from the exhaustively studied Drosophila. Mechanisms of early neurogenesis, however, show significant conservation with Drosophila, as a characteristic patt...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2013.02.003
更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The tumor-suppressor protein p53 belongs to a small gene family that includes p63 and p73. While p53 and p73 regulate cell cycle progression and apoptosis, the major role of p63 appears to be in promoting ectodermal proliferation and differentiation. In this report we describe the cloning of a Xenopus orthologue of ma...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(01)00315-x
更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Polycomb group (PcG) proteins regulate and maintain expression pattern of genes set early during development. Although originally isolated as regulators of homeotic genes, PcG members play a key role in epigenetic mechanisms that maintain the expression state of a large number of genes. All members of the two polycomb...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2015.07.013
更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The fork head domain-containing gene family (Fox) comprises over 20 members in mammals and is defined by a conserved 110 amino-acid motif containing a winged helix structure DNA-binding domain. The members of this gene family have been implicated as key regulators of embryogenesis, cell cycling, cell lineage restricti...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(02)00220-4
更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In Drosophila melanogaster, the patterning of dorsal appendages on the eggshell is strictly controlled by EGFR signaling. However, the number of dorsal appendages is remarkably diverse among Drosophila species. For example, D. melanogaster and D. virilis have two and four dorsal appendages, respectively. Here we show ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(03)00164-3
更新日期：2003-08-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(00)00424-x
更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To elucidate roles of fibroblast growth factors (FGF)18 during vertebrate development, we examined expression patterns of Fgf18 in chick embryos and observed effects of FGF18 protein on the Hensen's node, isthmus, and limb buds. Fgf18 is expressed on the right side of the node before the expression of Fgf8 starts. FGF...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(00)00331-2
更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00
