Abstract:
:Maleless (mle) is essential in Drosophila melanogaster males both in somatic cells and in germ cells. In somatic cells mle is necessary for X-chromosome dosage compensation. The role of mle in the germline is unknown. We have analyzed the expression pattern and localization of MLE, the other MSLs and acetylated isoforms of histone H4 in male germ cells to address whether dosage compensation and/or X inactivation occur in the Drosophila germline. We observed that MLE is the only MSL expressed in the male germ cells and it is not localized to the X chromosome. We conclude that in the germline mle is not involved in chromosomal dosage compensation but may be involved in post-transcriptional gene regulation. We also observed that the acetylation pattern of histone H4 is very dynamic during spermatogenesis. While the pattern is not compatible with dosage compensation or X inactivation, it is consistent with all premeiotic chromosomes being in an active configuration that is replaced in post-meiotic stages with an inactive chromatin constitution.
journal_name
Mech Devjournal_title
Mechanisms of developmentauthors
Rastelli L,Kuroda MIdoi
10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00009-4subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-02-01 00:00:00pages
107-17issue
1-2eissn
0925-4773issn
1872-6356pii
S0925-4773(98)00009-4journal_volume
71pub_type
杂志文章abstract::We have recently identified a new G protein-coupled receptor, msr/apj, whose transcripts are detected in the endothelium of the primary blood vessels and the newly forming heart (Mech. Dev. 1999;84:199). Its expression during formation of the embryonic vasculature incited us to investigate whether expression of the re...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0925-4773(01)00558-5
更新日期:2002-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Adhesion differences are the main driver of cell sorting and related processes such as boundary formation or tissue positioning. In the early amphibian embryo, graded variations in cadherin density and localized expression of adhesion-modulating factors are associated with regional differences in adhesive properties i...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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abstract::Homeodomain transcription factor CnNK-2 seems to play a major role in foot formation in Hydra. Recently, we reported in vitro evidence indicating that CnNK-2 has autoregulatory features and regulates expression of the morphogenetic peptide pedibin. We proposed that CnNK-2 and pedibin synergistically orchestrate foot d...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mod.2005.04.010
更新日期:2005-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Dan gene was first identified as the putative rat tumor suppressor gene and encodes a protein structurally related to Cerberus and Gremlin in vertebrates. Xenopus DAN, as with Cerberus and Gremlin, was demonstrated to block bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling by binding BMPs, and to be capable of inducing a...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0925-4773(01)00522-6
更新日期:2001-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Sexual reproduction in the ciliate Tetrahymena follows a complex developmental program involving the sequential regulation of dozens of genes. Genes that are up-regulated during post-zygotic development in Tetrahymena were isolated by subtractive hybridization. Anlagen stage induced gene 1 (ASI1) encodes a 2.8 kb tran...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0925-4773(02)00259-9
更新日期:2002-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Using the epidermis-specific cytokeratin 14 promoter to deliver HGF exclusively from epidermal keratinocytes, we have examined the potential of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) secreted from the normal environment to control morphogenesis. The transgenic mice displayed a significant increase of the number of melanocytes...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0925-4773(00)00308-7
更新日期:2000-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Drosophila pointed gene encodes two ETS transcriptional activators, pointedP1 and pointedP2, sharing a common C-terminal ETS domain. In the embryonic central nervous system pointedP2 is required for midline glial cell differentiation, whereas, in the eye, pointedP2 is essential for photoreceptor cell differentiati...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0925-4773(96)00568-0
更新日期:1996-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The availability of the draft sequence of the chicken genome will undoubtedly propel an already important vertebrate research model, the domestic chicken, to a new level. This review describes aspects of chicken natural history and cross-disciplinary biological value. The diversity of extant genetic variants available...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.mod.2004.05.018
更新日期:2004-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The cAMP signaling system has been postulated to be involved in embryogenesis of many animal species, however, little is known about its role in embryonic axis formation in vertebrates. In this study, the role of the cAMP signaling pathway in patterning the body plan of the Xenopus embryo was investigated by expressin...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0925-4773(99)00197-5
更新日期:1999-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mod.2015.07.015
更新日期:2015-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0925-4773(01)00513-5
更新日期:2001-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::We have isolated a new Wnt receptor frizzled family member from Xenopus laevis, Xenopus frizzled-5 (Xfz5), a likely ortholog of human frizzled-5. Based on Northern and whole-mount in situ hybridization data, Xfz5 is first detected at the late neurula stage in retinal primordia. Throughout the tailbud stage Xfz5 is exp...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0925-4773(01)00327-6
更新日期:2001-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::During Drosophila eye development, cell differentiation is preceded by the formation of a morphogenetic furrow, which progresses across the epithelium from posterior to anterior. Cells within the morphogenetic furrow are apically constricted and shortened along their apical-basal axis. However, how these cell shape ch...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mod.2008.04.005
更新日期:2008-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::We present the first time/space analysis using in situ hybridization for PTTG and prc1 genes during development of the mouse telencephalon. During the stages E11.5-E13.5 PTTG and prc1 are expressed in most tissues of the embryo. Within the telencephalon, PTTG and prc1 are found exclusively inside of the ventricular zo...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0925-4773(00)00243-4
更新日期:2000-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The bHLH protein eHAND is a sensitive marker for cardiovascular precursors in the Xenopus embryo. The earliest site of expression is a broad domain within the lateral plate mesoderm of the tailbud embryo. This domain comprises precursors that contribute to the posterior cardinal veins in later stages. Surprisingly, ex...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00010-0
更新日期:1998-02-01 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::We isolated and characterized embryonic lethal mutations in piragua (prg). The prg locus encodes a protein with an amino terminus Zinc Finger-Associated-Domain (ZAD) and nine C2H2 zinc fingers (ZF). prg mRNA and protein expression during embryogenesis is dynamic with widespread maternal contribution, and subsequent ex...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mod.2016.12.003
更新日期:2017-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Many proteins involved in signal transduction and cell adhesion are characterized by the presence of an extracellular domain with repeated copies of a leucine-rich motif (LRR). Here we report the isolation and characterization of a novel gene, tlr (for Toll-like receptor), which encodes a protein containing multiple L...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0925-4773(94)90041-8
更新日期:1994-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Mammalian Krüppel-like transcription factors include 12 zinc finger proteins (KLF1-12) that are involved in regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation during morphogenesis and development (Trends Biochem. Sci., 24 (1999) 236). Structural considerations have segregated KLF6 and KLF7 into a separate sub-group,...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0925-4773(01)00419-1
更新日期:2001-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The localization of RNAs at the vegetal cortex in Xenopus oocytes is a complex process, involving at least two different pathways. The early, or messenger transport organizer (METRO), pathway, localizes RNAs such as Xlsirts, Xcat2 and Xwnt11 during stages 1 and 2 of oogenesis, while the late pathway localizes RNAs suc...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00041-0
更新日期:1998-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The synchronous development of a sibling group of Rhynchosciara larvae enables us to follow the relationship between the local transcription and extrareplication of C3 and C8 DNA puffs. Although DNA amplification at these two loci takes place during the last cycle of DNA duplication in salivary gland chromosomes, a di...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0925-4773(91)90072-e
更新日期:1991-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::ADAM19 is a member of the meltrin subfamily of ADAM metalloproteases. In Xenopus, ADAM19 is present as a maternal transcript. Zygotic expression starts during gastrulation and is apparent in the dorsal blastopore lip. ADAM19 expression through neurulation and tailbud formation becomes enriched in dorsal structures suc...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mod.2008.10.010
更新日期:2009-03-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mod.2004.11.008
更新日期:2005-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Exogenously applied retinoic acid given at the early stages of gastrulation causes abnormal development of the caudal midbrain and anterior hindbrain in vertebrate embryos. We describe the limits of the brain regions that are affected using neuroanatomical criteria in the zebrafish embryo. Analysis of the reticulospin...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0925-4773(94)00321-d
更新日期:1995-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::ZT3, isolated from a murine muscle cell cDNA library by a low-stringency hybridization, encodes a zinc finger domain containing factor with a transcript of 5.0 kb. A 3' 2.5 kb partial nucleotide sequence contains an ORF of 1.5 kb where 17 canonical C2H2 zinc finger domains organized in tandem were identified. It maps ...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0925-4773(95)00465-3
更新日期:1996-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::All body pigment cells in vertebrates are derived from the neural crest. In fish the neural crest can generate up to six different types of pigment cells, as well as various non-pigmented derivatives. In mouse and zebrafish, extensive collections of pigmentation mutants have enabled dissection of many aspects of pigme...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mod.2004.01.004
更新日期:2004-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::In mammals, the SWI/SNF complex is involved in chromatin remodelling in a wide range of cellular events for which regulatory factors require access to DNA. In the present study, we analyzed in early postimplantation mouse embryos the expression pattern of BRM (SNF2alpha) and BRG1 (SNF2beta), which are both ATPase subu...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0925-4773(00)00560-8
更新日期:2001-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Terminal portions of the Drosophila body pattern are specified by an extracellular ligand generated at each end of the early syncytial embryo. This ligand triggers the localized transcription of two gap segmentation genes, tailles (tll) and huckebein (hkb) through a signal transduction cascade involving the receptor t...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0925-4773(94)90006-x
更新日期:1994-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Six genes are vertebrate homologues of the homeobox-containing gene sine oculis, which plays an essential role in controlling Drosophila compound eye development. Here we report the identification and expression patterns of all three subfamilies of Xenopus Six genes. Two Six2 subfamily genes (Six1, Six2) showed very s...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0925-4773(00)00572-4
更新日期:2001-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report the characterization of a zebrafish DnaJ-like protein, homologue to the human Hsp40 protein hdj1, that we named zf-Hsp40. We have studied its expression during fin regeneration and we show that zf-Hsp40 mRNA level is drastically increased in all ray segments beneath the regenerated part, or blastema, in resp...
journal_title:Mechanisms of development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0925-4773(00)00478-0
更新日期:2000-12-01 00:00:00