Abstract：
:Recent work identified an apoptotic program in gastrulation stage Xenopus embryos (Anderson, J.A., Lewellyn, A.L., Maller, J.L., 1997. Mol. Biol. Cell 8, 1195-1206; Stack, J.H., Newport, J.W., 1997. Development 124, 3185-3195). Here, we characterize in detail this maternal cell death program, which is set up at fertilization and abruptly activated at the onset of gastrulation, following DNA damage or treatment of embryos with inhibitors of transcription, translation, or replication, between the time of fertilization and the midblastula transition (MBT). This apoptotic pathway is activated under tightly regulated developmental control(s): if the same treatments are applied after the MBT the apoptotic response is abrogated. Embryos displayed many characteristic apoptotic features, including DNA fragmentation, caspase activation, and embryonic death was blocked in vivo by the ectopic expression of Bcl-2, or injection of the caspase-3 inhibitor z-DEVD-fmk. The precise timing and the execution of this maternal cell death program is set at fertilization and does not depend on the type of stress applied, on cell cycle progression, or on de novo protein synthesis. This maternal developmental program might palliate the lack of cell cycle checkpoints in the pre-MBT embryo.
journal_name
Mech Devjournal_title
Mechanisms of developmentauthors
Hensey C,Gautier Jdoi
10.1016/s0925-4773(97)00191-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1997-12-01 00:00:00pages
183-95issue
1-2eissn
0925-4773issn
1872-6356pii
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69pub_type
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
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更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
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