abstract：:We isolated a novel gene by a differential-display RT-PCR method comparing basal disk tissue and peduncle tissue in a species of Hydra, Pelmatohydra robusta, and we referred to it as anklet. The putative anklet product has a signal sequence in its N-terminus, and it has one MAC/PF domain and one EGF domain. In normal ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Amimoto Y,Kodama R,Kobayakawa Y

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mix/Bix family of Pax-like homeodomain transcription factors is expressed early in vertebrate development and play important roles in endoderm and mesoderm formation. Like other Pax-related homeodomain proteins, the Mix/Bix family binds DNA as monomers or dimers and dimerization is mediated by the homeodomain. Whi...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Doherty JR,Zhu H,Kuliyev E,Mead PE

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male and female embryonic stem (ES) cell lines were derived from the area pellucidae of Stage X (EG&K) chicken embryos. These ES cell lines were grown in culture for extended periods of time and the majority of the cells retained a diploid karyotype. When reintroduced into Stage VI-X (EG&K) recipient embryos, the cES ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： van de Lavoir MC,Mather-Love C,Leighton P,Diamond JH,Heyer BS,Roberts R,Zhu L,Winters-Digiacinto P,Kerchner A,Gessaro T,Swanberg S,Delany ME,Etches RJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 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

authors： Meier S,Sprecher SG,Reichert H,Hirth F

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imitation Switch (ISWI) is a member of the SWI2/SNF2 superfamily of ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers, which regulate transcription and maintain chromatin structure by mobilizing nucleosomes using the energy of ATP. Four distinct ISWI complexes have been identified in Xenopus oocytes. The developmental role of Xenopu...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Dirscherl SS,Henry JJ,Krebs JE

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Siebert S,Thomsen S,Reimer MM,Bosch TC

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:extramacrochaetae (emc) functions during many developmental processes in Drosophila, such as sensory organ formation, sex determination, wing vein differentiation, regulation of eye photoreceptor differentiation, cell proliferation and development of the Malpighian tubules, trachea and muscles in the embryo. It encode...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Papadia S,Tzolovsky G,Zhao D,Leaper K,Clyde D,Taylor P,Asscher E,Kirk G,Bownes M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterised the transdifferentiation of human HepG2 (hepatoma) cells to pancreatic cells following introduction of an activated version of the pancreatic transcription factor Pdx1 (XlHbox8-VP16). The following questions are addressed: (1) are all types of pancreatic cells produced? (2) is the requirement for...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Li WC,Horb ME,Tosh D,Slack JM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell fate specification during inner ear development is dependent upon regional gene expression within the otic vesicle. One of the earliest cell fate determination steps in this system is the specification of neural precursors, and regulators of this process include the Atonal-related basic helix-loop-helix genes, Ng...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Friedman RA,Makmura L,Biesiada E,Wang X,Keithley EM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor beta 2 (TGF-beta2) plays a critical role in growth, differentiation and cell death, but its function in the developing cerebellum is still uncertain. In this study we analyzed the effects of TGF-beta2 on ex vivo developing cerebellar slice cultures. Proliferation of granule cell precursors p...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Elvers M,Pfeiffer J,Kaltschmidt C,Kaltschmidt B

更新日期：2005-04-01 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

authors： Chen JA,Voigt J,Gilchrist M,Papalopulu N,Amaya E

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the molecular mechanisms directing anteroposterior patterning of the Drosophila embryo (long-germband mode) are well understood, how these mechanisms were evolved from an ancestral mode of insect embryogenesis remains largely unknown. In order to gain insight into mechanisms of evolution in insect embryogenes...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Shinmyo Y,Mito T,Matsushita T,Sarashina I,Miyawaki K,Ohuchi H,Noji S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear translocation, driven by the motility apparatus consisting of the cytoplasmic dynein motor and microtubules, is essential for cell migration during embryonic development. Bicaudal-D (Bic-D), an evolutionarily conserved dynein-interacting protein, is required for developmental control of nuclear migration in Dr...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Houalla T,Hien Vuong D,Ruan W,Suter B,Rao Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ras protein activates at least three different pathways during early development. Two of them regulate mesodermal gene expression and the third is thought to participate in the control of actin cytoskeleton dynamics via the Ral protein. From a yeast two-hybrid screen of a Xenopus maternal cDNA library, we identifi...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Lebreton S,Boissel L,Iouzalen N,Moreau J

更新日期：2004-12-01 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

authors： Lowery LA,Sive H

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrates display striking left-right asymmetries in the placement of internal organs, which are concealed by a seemingly bilaterally symmetric body plan. The establishment of asymmetries about the left-right axis occurs early during embryo development and requires the concerted and sequential action of several epig...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Raya A,Izpisua Belmonte JC

更新日期：2004-09-01 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

authors： Delany ME

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unfertilized eggs of Oryzias latipes were artificially inseminated and incubated at 26+/-1 degrees C. Careful observation of the process of embryonic development by light microscopy allowed division of the process into 39 stages based on diagnostic features of the developing embryos. The principal diagnostic features ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Iwamatsu T

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a systematic screen for mutations affecting the trajectory of axons visualized by immunohistochemical staining of Medaka embryos with anti-acetylated tubulin antibody. Among the mutations identified, yanagi (yan) and kazura (kaz) mutations caused specific defects in projection of the posterior lateral lin...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Yasuoka A,Hirose Y,Yoda H,Aihara Y,Suwa H,Niwa K,Sasado T,Morinaga C,Deguchi T,Henrich T,Iwanami N,Kunimatsu S,Abe K,Kondoh H,Furutani-Seiki M

更新日期：2004-07-01 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

authors： Kelsh RN,Inoue C,Momoi A,Kondoh H,Furutani-Seiki M,Ozato K,Wakamatsu Y

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medaka is an ideal model system for developmental studies as it combines the advantages of powerful genetics and classical embryology. Due to the accessibility, transparency and fast development, embryogenesis and morphogenesis can be followed in vivo. Microscopic time-lapse imaging, however, requires the immobilizati...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Rembold M,Wittbrodt J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increases in Na/K-ATPase activity occur concurrently with the onset of cavitation and are associated with increases in Na(+)-pump subunit mRNA and protein expression. We have hypothesized that the alpha1-isozyme of the Na/K-ATPase is required to mediate blastocyst formation. We have tested this hypothesis by character...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Barcroft LC,Moseley AE,Lingrel JB,Watson AJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Notch effector E(spl)M8 is phosphorylated at Ser159 by CK2, a highly conserved Ser/Thr protein kinase. We have used the Gal4-UAS system to assess the role of M8 phosphorylation during bristle and eye morphogenesis by employing a non-phosphorylatable variant (M8SA) or one predicted to mimic the 'constitutively' pho...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Karandikar UC,Trott RL,Yin J,Bishop CP,Bidwai AP

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The foot of the simple metazoan Hydra is a highly dynamic body region of constant tissue movement, cell proliferation, determination and differentiation. Previously, two genes have been shown to participate in the development and differentiation of this body region: homeodomain factor CnNK-2 and signal peptide pedibin...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Thomsen S,Till A,Wittlieb J,Beetz C,Khalturin K,Bosch TC

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortactin is a Src substrate that interacts with F-actin and can stimulate actin polymerization by direct interaction with the Arp2/3 complex. We have isolated complete loss-of-function mutants of the single Drosophila cortactin gene. Mutants are viable and fertile, showing that cortactin is not an essential gene. How...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Somogyi K,Rørth P

更新日期：2004-01-01 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

authors： McLaughlin D,Karlsson F,Tian N,Pratt T,Bullock SL,Wilson VA,Price DJ,Mason JO

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth is confined within a size that is normal for each species, revealing that somehow an organism 'knows' when this size has been reached. Within a species, growth is also variable, but despite this, proportion and structure are maintained. Perhaps, the key element in the control of size is the control of cell numb...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Hidalgo A,ffrench-Constant C

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dorsal thalamus (DT) is a pivotal region in the vertebrate brain that relays inputs from the peripheral sensory organs to higher cognitive centers. It consists of clusters of neurons with relevant functions, called brain nuclei. However, the mechanisms underlying development of the DT, including specification of t...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Hashimoto-Torii K,Motoyama J,Hui CC,Kuroiwa A,Nakafuku M,Shimamura K

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commissureless (Comm) is a novel transmembrane molecule necessary both for commissural axons to cross the midline of the Drosophila central nervous system and normal synaptogenesis. Comm is able to reduce cell surface levels of Roundabout (Robo), a receptor for the midline repellent Slit, on commissural axons and unkn...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Georgiou M,Tear G

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila melanogaster, the patterning of dorsal appendages on the eggshell is strictly controlled by EGFR signaling. However, the number of dorsal appendages is remarkably diverse among Drosophila species. For example, D. melanogaster and D. virilis have two and four dorsal appendages, respectively. Here we show ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Nakamura Y,Matsuno K

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the development of the proventriculus (glandular stomach) of the chicken embryo, the endodermal epithelium invades into the surrounding mesenchyme and forms glands. The glandular epithelial cells produce pepsinogen, while the non-glandular (luminal) epithelial cells secrete mucus. Sonic hedgehog is expressed un...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Fukuda K,Kameda T,Saitoh K,Iba H,Yasugi S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster possesses a single gene, Dm myb, that is closely related to the vertebrate family of Myb genes, which encode transcription factors involved in regulatory decisions affecting cell proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis. In proliferating cells, the Dm myb gene product, DMyb, promotes both S...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Fung SM,Ramsay G,Katzen AL

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila wing is a classical model for studying the generation of developmental patterns. Previous studies have suggested that vein primordia form at boundaries between discrete sectors of gene expression along the antero-posterior (A/P) axis in the larval wing imaginal disc. Observation that the vein marker rho...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Crozatier M,Glise B,Khemici V,Vincent A

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The germ cell nuclear factor (GCNF, NR6A1) is a nuclear orphan receptor that functions as a transcriptional repressor and is transiently expressed in mammalian carcinoma cells during retinoic acid (RA) induced neuronal differentiation. During Xenopus laevis development, the spatiotemporal expression pattern of embryon...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Barreto G,Borgmeyer U,Dreyer C

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of distal lung morphogenesis and vascular development would be greatly facilitated by an in vitro or ex vivo experimental model. In this study we show that the growth of mouse embryonic day 12.5 lung rudiments implanted underneath the kidney capsules of syngeneic or immunodeficient hosts follows closely lung...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Vu TH,Alemayehu Y,Werb Z

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cloning of a Pax6 orthologue from the sepiolid squid Euprymna scolopes and its developmental expression pattern are described. The data are consistent with the presence of a single gene encoding a protein with highly conserved DNA-binding paired and homeodomains. A detailed expression analysis by in situ hybridiza...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Hartmann B,Lee PN,Kang YY,Tomarev S,de Couet HG,Callaerts P

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of a common endodermal progenitor cell to both pancreas and liver is suggested by anatomy of the development of pancreatic and liver buds in embryogenesis. Here we review the large body of evidence that pancreas to liver and liver to pancreas cell differentiation can also occur in adult life. The publish...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Grompe M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dystroglycan is a transmembrane receptor protein that provides a structural linkage between extracellular matrix components and cytoskeletal proteins. It was originally characterized as a member of dystrophin associated protein complex in muscle but, unlike other proteins of this complex, mutations in the dystroglycan...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Lunardi A,Dente L

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the expression of three Runt-related RUNX genes (previously termed AML, Cbfa, or Pebp2alpha) Runx1 and Runx3 during the development of teeth and other craniofacial tissues and compare them to Runx2 expression reported earlier. All three genes were expressed in mesenchymal condensates. Runx1 was expressed i...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Yamashiro T,Aberg T,Levanon D,Groner Y,Thesleff I

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six/sine oculis (Six/so) class genes, with representatives in vertebrates and invertebrates, include members with key developmental roles in the anterior part of the central nervous system (CNS) and eye. Having characterized the role of the first planarian gene of the Six/so family in eye development, we attempted to ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Pineda D,Saló E

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00