Abstract:
:Replication-dependent histone genes in the mouse and Xenopus share a common regulatory element within the protein-encoding sequence called the CRAS alpha element (coding region activating sequence alpha) which has been shown to mediate normal expression in vivo and to interact with nuclear factors in vitro in a cell cycle-dependent manner. Thus far, the alpha element has only been studied in rodent cells in culture, and its effect on histone gene expression during development has not been determined. Here we examine the role of the alpha element in histone gene expression during Xenopus development which features a switch in histone gene expression from a replication-independent mode in oocytes to a replication-dependent mode in embryos after midblastula stage. In vivo expression experiments involving wild-type or alpha-mutant mouse H3.2 genes show that mutation of the CRAS alpha element results in a fourfold decline of expression in embryos, but does not affect expression in oocytes. Two distinct alpha sequence-specific binding activities were detected in both oocyte and embryonic extracts. A slowly migrating DNA-binding complex was present at relatively constant levels throughout development from the earliest stages of oogenesis through larval stages. In contrast, levels of a rapidly migrating complex were high in stage I and II oocytes, declined in stage II-VI oocytes, remained low in unfertilized eggs and cleavage stage embryos, and rose dramatically after the midblastula transition. The molecular masses of the factors forming the slow and rapidly migrating complexes were estimated to be approximately 110 and 85 kDa, respectively. DNA-binding activity of the 85 kDa alpha-binding factor was affected by phosphorylation, binding with higher affinity in the dephosphorylated state. The abrupt increase in DNA-binding activity of the 85-kDa alpha-binding factor at late blastula coincides with the switch to the replication-dependent mode of histone gene expression. We propose that the conserved alpha element present in the coding sequence of mouse and Xenopus core histone genes is required for normal replication-dependent histone expression in the developing Xenopus embryo.
journal_name
Dev Bioljournal_title
Developmental biologyauthors
Ficzycz A,Kaludov NK,Lele Z,Hurt MM,Ovsenek Ndoi
10.1006/dbio.1996.8459subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1997-02-01 00:00:00pages
21-32issue
1eissn
0012-1606issn
1095-564Xpii
S0012-1606(96)98459-6journal_volume
182pub_type
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