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-rich domain and seven transmembrane domains that are well conserved in Fz receptor protein members. In comparison with other Fz family members, ZFz8a and ZFz8b showed the highest homology with mouse Fz8 (MFz8), sharing 84 and 76% amino acid identity, respectively. The presence of Zfz8a and Zfz8b transcripts was detected by in situ hybridization in zebrafish embryos from the 512 cell stage, and their appearance in the future dorsal region could be observed before embryos reached the 30% epiboly stage. At shield stage, Zfz8a transcripts were expressed in both epiblast and shield whereas expression of Zfz8b was only detected in the embryonic shield. During gastrula stages, both Zfz8a and Zfz8b transcripts were found in anterior dorsal regions of the involuting mesendoderm (future prechordal plate). By the 2- to 3-somite stage, expression of both Zfz8a and Zfz8b was restricted to the prechordal plate and prospective anterior neurectoderm, although expression of the Zfz8a gene was no longer present in the most anterior portion of the prechordal plate, the polster. In one-eyed pinhead mutant embryos, which lack prechordal plate, both Zfz8a and Zfz8b transcripts were reduced, confirming the prechordal plate specificity of Zfz8a and Zfz8b gene expression. These results provide an additional evidence supporting the role of Wnt signaling in organizer-mediated axial patterning.
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Mech Devjournal_title
Mechanisms of developmentauthors
Kim SH,Park HC,Yeo SY,Hong SK,Choi JW,Kim CH,Weinstein BM,Huh TLdoi
10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00137-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-11-01 00:00:00pages
193-201issue
1-2eissn
0925-4773issn
1872-6356pii
S0925-4773(98)00137-3journal_volume
78pub_type
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更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(99)00050-7
更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0925-4773(92)90052-l
更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00067-7
更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(99)00320-2
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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
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(01)00507-x
更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00162-2
更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00
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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
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(00)00335-x
更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The scaffolding protein tetraspanin18 (Tspan18) maintains epithelial cadherin-6B (Cad6B) to antagonize chick cranial neural crest epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). For migration to take place, Tspan18 must be downregulated. Here, we characterize the role of the winged-helix transcription factor FoxD3 in the ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2014.02.004
更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2019.04.002
更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(00)00416-0
更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00
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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
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(03)00179-5
更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(02)00026-6
更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(97)00192-5
更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(02)00308-8
更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0925-4773(95)00432-z
更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00198-1
更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2018.07.003
更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:dkk-1 has recently been identified as a secreted protein in Xenopus laevis which is sufficient and necessary to cause head induction by antagonizing Wnt signalling (Glinka et al., 1998, Nature 391, 357-362). Consistent with such a role dkk-1 is expressed in the Spemann organizer of the early frog gastrula. Later, expr...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(99)00194-x
更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00
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 isofor...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00009-4
更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00130-0
更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Drosophila tracheal fusion cells play multiple important roles in guiding and facilitating tracheal branch fusion. Mechanistic understanding of how fusion cells function during development requires deciphering their transcriptional circuitry. In this paper, three genes with distinct patterns of fusion cell expression ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2010.03.003
更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The maturation of T cells is an intricate process involving the interaction of developing thymocytes with discrete microenvironments within the thymus. Numerous studies have indicated that distinct thymic compartments provide signals required for each stage of thymocyte maturation. In this study we performed a compreh...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(03)00121-7
更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The idea has been put forward that molecules and mechanisms acting during development are re-used during regeneration in the adult, for example in response to traumatic injury in order to re-establish the functional integrity of neuronal circuits. Members of the Eph family of receptor tyrosine kinases and their 'ligan...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(01)00431-2
更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00
