Abstract：
:To examine the role of the Oct-6 gene in Schwann cell differentiation we have cloned and characterized the chicken and zebrafish homologues of the mouse Oct-6 gene. While highly homologous in the Pit1-Oct1/2-Unc86 (POU) domain, sequence similarities are limited outside this domain. Both genes are intronless and both proteins lack the amino acid repeats that are a characteristic feature of the mammalian Oct-6 proteins. However as in mammals, the aminoterminal parts of the chicken and zebrafish Oct-6 proteins are essential for transactivation of octamer containing promoters. By immunohistochemistry we have found that the chicken Oct-6 protein is expressed in late embryonic ensheathing Schwann cells of the sciatic nerve and is rapidly downregulated when myelination proceeds. This expression profile in glial cells is identical to that in the mouse and rat. Furthermore the zebrafish Oct-6 homolog is expressed in the posterior lateral nerve at a time when it contains actively myelinating Schwann cells. Thus despite extensive primary sequence divergence among the vertebrate Oct-6 proteins, the expression of the chicken and zebrafish Oct-6 proteins is consistent with the notion that Oct-6 functions as a 'competence factor' in promyelin cells to execute the myelination program.
journal_name
Mech Devjournal_title
Mechanisms of developmentauthors
Levavasseur F,Mandemakers W,Visser P,Broos L,Grosveld F,Zivkovic D,Meijer Ddoi
10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00067-7subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-06-01 00:00:00pages
89-98issue
1-2eissn
0925-4773issn
1872-6356pii
S0925477398000677journal_volume
74pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:SPOCK is a modular proteoglycan, with homology with proteins involved in cell adhesion processes and neurogenesis. We have previously shown that SPOCK transcripts predominate in the adult mouse brain. Here, we report its expression during mouse embryonic development by in situ hybridization, and immunocytochemistry. S...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(99)00255-5
更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Lobopodium is a hyaline cytoplasmic protrusion which rotates circumferencially around a cell. This movement is called circus movement, which is seen in dissociated cells of amphibian embryos. Relative abundance of the lobopodia-forming cells changes temporally and spatially within Xenopus embryos, reflecting stage-dep...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0925-4773(94)00303-5
更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:Several lines of evidence suggest that the origin of pattern formation of Drosophila embryos must be traced back to oogenesis, to the polarity of the egg chamber. A few early-acting genes, K10, top, grk and cni, have been identified which are assumed to function in a signal transduction process between the germline oo...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0925-4773(93)90041-u
更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In sea urchin development, micromere descendants play important roles in skeletogenesis and induction of gastrulation. We previously reported that the T-brain homolog of sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus, HpTb expresses specifically in micromere descendants and is required for induction of gastrulation and skeleto...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2007.10.009
更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The Drosophila genes eyeless, eyes absent, sine oculis and dachshund cooperate as components of a network to control retinal determination. Vertebrate homologues of these genes have been identified and implicated in the control of cell fate. We present the cloning and characterization of mouse Dach2, a homologue of da...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(01)00307-0
更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In the Drosophila embryo, a subset of muscles require expression and function of the RYK subfamily RTK gene derailed (drl) for correct attachment. We have isolated a second RYK homolog, doughnut (dnt), from Drosophila. The DNT protein exhibits 60% amino acid identity to DRL, and is structurally as similar to the mamma...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00167-1
更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We have made a null mutation in the mouse activin beta B gene by deleting the portion of the gene encoding the proteolytic cleavage site and the majority of the coding region for the mature processed protein. Mice homozygous for this mutation complete embryogenesis and are completely viable. Approximately 40% of the h...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0925-4773(94)90094-9
更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Mastermind, which is a Notch signal component, is a nuclear protein and is thought to contribute to the transactivation of target genes. Previously we showed that XMam1, Xenopus Mastermind1, was essential in the transactivation of a Notch target gene, XESR-1, and was involved in primary neurogenesis. To examine the fu...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2006.08.001
更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The Hedgehog (Hh) pathway was first defined by its role in segment polarity in the Drosophila melanogaster embryonic epidermis and has since been linked to many aspects of vertebrate development and disease. In humans, mutation of the Patched1 (PTCH1) gene, which encodes an inhibitor of Hh signaling, leads to tumors o...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2012.05.007
更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We have identified ramshackle (ram) as a dominant suppressor of hedgehog loss-of-function in the developing Drosophila eye. We have characterized the gene and it encodes a double bromodomain protein with eight WD40 repeats. The Ram protein is localized predominantly to polytene chromosome interbands and is required fo...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2006.06.007
更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We describe the cloning, expression pattern and functional overexpression analysis of Xotx5b, a new member of the Otx gene family in Xenopus laevis. Early expression of Xotx5b resembles that of Xotx2, being detected in the organizer region at early gastrula stage, and, shortly after, also in anterior neuroectoderm. Du...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(00)00367-1
更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The vertebrate neural tube develops by two distinct mechanisms. Anteriorly, in the brain and future trunk (cervicothoracic) region, 'primary neurulation' occurs, where an epithelial sheet rolls or bends into a tube. Posteriorly, in the future lumbar and tail region, the neural tube forms by 'secondary neurulation', wh...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2004.04.022
更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The Fused (Fu) serine-threonine kinase and the Suppressor of fused (Su(fu)) product are part of the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway both in embryos and in imaginal discs. In wing imaginal discs, the Hh signal induces Cubitus interruptus (Ci) accumulation and activates patched (ptc) and decapentaplegic (dpp) expression...
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
abstract：:The Suppressor of forked (Su(f)) protein of Drosophila melanogaster is a homologue of the 77K subunit of human cleavage stimulation factor required for cleavage of pre-mRNAs before addition of poly(A). We have previously shown that the Su(f) protein is not ubiquitously distributed: it accumulates in dividing cells at ...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(99)00011-8
更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Haploinsufficiency for the HMG-box transcription factor SOX2 results in abnormalities of the human ventral forebrain and its derivative structures. These defects include anophthalmia (absence of eye), microphthalmia (small eye) and hypothalamic hamartoma (HH), an overgrowth of the ventral hypothalamus. To determine ho...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2012.04.001
更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Myogenin and CMD1, the chicken homologue of MyoD, transactivate the promoter of the alpha-subunit of the acetylcholine receptor (AChR) in chicken fibroblasts. The expression of these three genes was followed by in situ hybridization. In two-day-old embryos the CMD1 gene is expressed shortly before the AChR alpha-subun...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0925-4773(92)90018-f
更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:HNF1 (Hepatic Nuclear Factor 1) and vHNF1 are transcriptional regulators containing a highly divergent homeodomain. The first was initially found in liver nuclear extracts and is crucial for the transcription of albumin and many other hepatocyte specific genes, while the second was found in dedifferentiated hepatoma c...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0925-4773(91)90071-d
更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To analyse the possible roles of Drosophila tumour suppressor genes, 1(2)gl and 1(2)gd, in differentiation programmes of imaginal cells, we investigated their interactions with two segment polarity genes, viz., cubitus interruptus Dominant (ci-D) and engrailed (en), by examining their patterns of expression in tumouro...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0925-4773(95)00367-3
更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The gene tprd, which contains three tetratricopeptide domains, has been recently localized in the Down syndrome (DS) chromosomal region 1. We have cloned a cDNA encoding part of the murine ortholog of tprd and used it to characterize the expression pattern of this gene during development and at the adult stage. At E8....
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(99)00076-3
更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This study compares by immunogold labeling the ultrastructural localization of a hexameric 22S glycoprotein, called toposome, with that of hyalin in unfertilized eggs and cells of hatched sea urchin blastulae. Nearly all hyalin is present in the electron translucent compartment of the cortical granules and in the tran...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0925-4773(91)90079-l
更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In chick embryos, naso-temporal polarity of the retina becomes established before Hamburger-Hamilton stage 10. To examine the plasticity of the early eye anlage, double-temporal eyes were made using stage 10-11 (E1.5) chick embryos and stage 8-9 quail embryos. In vivo and in vitro experiments revealed that these doubl...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00058-6
更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The adrenergic differentiation of sympathetic neurons is controlled by complex interactions with the embryonic environment. To provide a basis for the experimental analysis of these interactions, the expression of the adrenergic marker enzyme tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) was analyzed by immunohistochemistry and in situ h...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0925-4773(95)00396-i
更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The homeotic or Hox genes encode a network of conserved transcription factors which provide axial positional information and control segment morphology in development and evolution. During embryonic brain development of Drosophila, the Hox gene labial (lab) is essential for tritocerebral neuromere specification; lab l...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2005.09.004
更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Epimorphic regeneration is a process allowing the animal to regain its lost structure which depends on the resident pluripotent stem cells as well as de-differentiation of existing cells to form multi-potent stem cells. Many studies have been done to understand the appendage regeneration mechanism. The animal model us...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2018.02.001
更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The normal embryogenesis of marine animals is typically confined to a species-specific range of temperatures. Within that temperature range development results in a consistent, or canalized, phenotype, whereas above and below the range abnormal phenotypes are produced. This study reveals a high temperature threshold, ...
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
abstract：:During heart development, cells of the endocardial cushions undergo an epithelial-mesenchymal transformation and migrate into the surrounding extracellular matrix. This event is required for the normal formation of valves and chamber septation. Coincident with this phenotypic change is the expression of the serine pro...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(97)00138-x
更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:XLPOU3 is a member of the Xenopus POU domain family of genes, encoding a class of homeodomain-containing transcription factors implicated in cell differentiation during development. Here we describe the isolation and characterisation of XLPOU3b, an allelic genomic counterpart of the XLPOU3 cDNA previously described (B...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(96)00563-1
更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Proteoglycans are cell surface and extracellular matrix molecules to which long, unbranched glycosaminoglycan side chains are attached. Heparan sulphate, a type of glycosaminoglycan chain, has been proposed as a co-factor necessary for signalling by a range of growth factors. Here we provide evidence that loss of 2-O-...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mod.2003.08.008
更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The effects of signal perturbation on expression domains of molecular markers for the mesoderm and ectoderm have been analysed across the dorso-ventral axis in zebrafish embryos. Injection of RNA encoding bone morphogenetic protein-4 (BMP-4) ventralised the embryo, expanding the intermediate mesoderm and non-neural ec...
journal_title：Mechanisms of development
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0925-4773(97)00659-x
更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00
