Spatial and temporal controls target pal-1 blastomere-specification activity to a single blastomere lineage in C. elegans embryos

Cell

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 217-226

  Hunter, Craig P ^a   Kenyon, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN PAL1; PROTEIN SKN1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030592556     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81340-9     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Ahringer, J. (1996). Posterior patterning by the C. elegans even-skipped homolog vab-7. Genes Dev. 10, 1120-1130.
2. Ahringer, J., and Kimble, J. (1991). Control of the sperm-oocyte switch in Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodites by the fem-3 3′ untranslated region. Nature 349, 346-348.
3. Blackwell, T.K., Bowerman, B., Priess, J.R., and Weintraub, H. (1994). Formation of a monomeric DNA binding domain by Skn-1 bZIP and homeodomain elements. Science 266, 621-628.
4. Boring, L., Weir, M., and Schubiger, G. (1993). Egg ligation alters the Bcd protein gradient and segmentation gene expression in embryos of Drosophila. Mech. Dev. 42, 97-111.
5. Bowerman, B., Eaton, B.A., and Priess, J.R. (1992). skn-1, a maternally expressed gene required to specify the fate of ventral blastomeres in the early C. elegans embryo. Cell 68, 1061-1075.
6. Bowerman, B., Draper, B.W., Mello, C.C., and Priess, J.R. (1993). The maternal gene skn-1 encodes a protein that is distributed unequally in early C. elegans embryos. Cell 74, 443-452.
7. Brenner, S. (1974). The genetics of C. elegans. Genetics 77, 71-94.
8. Curtis, D., Lehman, R., and Zamore, P.D. (1995). Translational regulation in development. Cell 81, 171-178.
9. Davidson, E.H. (1990). How embryos work: a comparative view of diverse modes of cell fate specification. Development 108, 365-389.
10. Draper, B.W., Mello, C.C., Bowerman, B., Hardin, J., and Priess, J.R. (1996). MEX-3 is a KH domain protein that regulates blastomere identity in early C. elegans embryos. Cell 87, this issue.
11. Dubnau, J., and Struhl, G. (1996). RNA recognition and translational regulation by a homeodomain protein. Nature 379, 694-699.
12. Evans, T.C., Crittenden, S.L., Kodoyianni, V., and Kimble, J. (1994). Translational control of maternal glp-1 mRNA establishes an asymmetry in the C. elegans embryo. Cell 77, 183-194.
13. Fire, A., Harrison, S.W., and Dixon, D. (1990). A modular set of lacZ fusion vectors for studying gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans. Gene 93, 189-198.
14. Frumkin, A., Rangini, Z., Ben, Y.A., Gruenbaum, Y., and Fainsod, A. (1991). A chicken caudal homologue, CHox-cad, is expressed in the epiblast with posterior localization and in the early endodermal lineage. Development 112, 207-219.
15. Gamer, L.W., and Wright, C.V. (1993). Murine Cdx-4 bears striking similarities to the Drosophila caudal gene in its homeodomain sequence and early expression pattern. Mech. Dev. 43, 71-81.
16. Goodwin, E.B., Okkema, P.G., Evans, T.C., and Kimble, J. (1993). Translational regulation of tra-2 by its 3′ untranslated region controls sexual identity in C. elegans. Cell 75, 329-339.
17. Guo, S., and Kemphues, K.J. (1995). par-1, a gene required for establishing polarity in C. elegans embryos, encodes a putative Ser/ Thr kinase that is asymmetrically distributed. Cell 81, 611-620.
18. Hulskamp, M., Pfeifle, C., and Tautz, D. (1990). A morphogenetic gradient of hunchback protein organizes the expression of the gap genes Kruppel and knirps in the early Drosophila embryo. Nature 346, 577-580.
19. Hutter, H., and Schnabel, R. (1994). glp-1 and inductions establishing embryonic axes in C. elegans. Development 120, 2051-2064.
20. Hutter, H., and Schnabel, R. (1995). Specification of anterior-posterior differences within the AB lineage in the C. elegans embryo: a polarising induction. Development 121, 1559-1568.
21. Joly, J.S., Maury, M., Joly, C., Duprey, P., Boulekbache, H., and Condamine, H. (1992). Expression of a zebrafish caudal homeobox gene correlates with the establishment of posterior cell lineages at gastrulation. Differentiation 50, 75-87.
22. Kemphues, K.J., Pries, J.R., Morton, D.G., and Cheng, N. (1988). Identification of genes required for cytoplasmic localization in early C. elegans embryos. Cell 52, 311-320.
23. Lin, R., Thompson, S., and Priess, J.R. (1995). pop-1 encodes an HMG box protein required for the specification of a mesoderm precursor in early C. elegans embryos. Cell 83, 599-609.
24. Macdonald, P.M., and Struhl, G. (1986). A molecular gradient in early Drosophila embryos and its role in specifying the body pattern. Nature 324, 537-545.
25. Mango, S.E., Thorpe, C.J., Martin, P.R., Chamberlain, S.H., and Bowerman, B. (1994). Two maternal genes, apx-1 and pie-1, are required to distinguish the fates of equivalent blastomeres in the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo. Development 120, 2305-2315.
26. Mello, C.C., Kramer, J.M., Stinchcomb, D., and Ambros, V. (1991). Efficient gene transfer in C. elegans: extrachromosomal maintenance and integration of transforming sequences. EMBO J. 10, 3959-3970.
27. Mello, C.C., Draper, B.W., Krause, M., Weintraub, H., and Priess, J.R. (1992). The pie-1 and mex-1 genes and maternal control of blastomere identity in early C. elegans embryos. Cell 70, 163-176.
28. Mello, C.C., Draper, B.W., and Priess, J.R. (1994). The maternal genes apx-1 and glp-1 and establishment of dorsal-ventral polarity in the early C. elegans embryo. Cell 77, 95-106.
29. Mello, C.C., Schubert, C., Draper, B., Zhang, W., Lobel, B., and Priess, J.R. (1996). The PIE-1 protein and germline specification in early C. elegans embryos. Nature 382, 710-712.
30. Miller, D.M., and Shakes, D.C. (1995). Immunofluorescence microscopy. Meth. Cell Biol. 48, 365-394.
31. Miller, D.M., Ortiz, I., Berliner, G.C., and Epstein, H.F. (1983). Differential localization of two myosins within nematode thick filaments. Cell 34, 477-490.
32. Mlodzik, M., and Gehring, W.J. (1987). Expression of the caudal gene in the germline of Drosophila: formation of an RNA and protein gradient during early embryogenesis. Cell 48, 465-478.
33. Mlodzik, M., Fjose, A., and Gehring, W.J. (1985). Isolation of caudal, a Drosophila homeobox-containing gene with maternal expression whose transcripts form a gradient at the preblastoderm stage. EMBO J. 4, 2961-2969.
34. Moskowitz, I.P., Gendreau, S.B., and Rothman, J.H. (1994). Combinatorial specification of blastomere identity by glp-1-dependent cellular interactions in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Development 120, 3325-3338.
35. Priess, J.R., and Thomson, J.N. (1987). Cellular interactions in early C. elegans embryos. Cell 48, 241-250.
36. Pulak, R., and Anderson, P. (1993). mRNA surveillance by the Caenorhabditis elegans smg genes. Genes Dev. 7, 1885-1897.
37. Rivera-Pomar, R., Niessing, D., Schmidt-Ott, U., Gehring, W.J., and Jackle, H. (1996). RNA binding and translational suppression by bicoid. Nature 379, 746-749.
38. Schulz, C., and Tautz, D. (1994). Autonomous concentration-dependent activation and repression of Kruppel by hunchback in the Drosophila embryo. Development 120, 3043-3049.
39. Schulz, C., and Tautz, D. (1995). Zygotic caudal regulation by hunchback and its role in abdominal segment formation of the Drosophila embryo. Development 121, 1023-1028.
40. Seydoux, G., and Fire, A. (1995). Whole-mount in situ hybridization for the detection of RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos. Meth. Cell Biol. 48, 323-337.
41. Seydoux, G., Mello, C., Pettitt, J., Wood, W.B., Priess, J., and Fire, A. (1996). Repression of gene expression in the embryonic germ lineage of C. elegans. Nature 382, 713-716.
42. St Johnston, D., and Nüsslein-Volhard, C. (1992). The origin of pattern and polarity in the Drosophila embryo. Cell 68, 201-219.
43. Strome, S., and Wood, W.B. (1982). Immunofluorescence visualization of germ-line-specific cytoplasmic granules in embryos, larvae, and adults of Caenorhabditis elegans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 79, 1558-1562.
44. Struhl, G., Johnston, P., and Lawrence, P.A. (1992). Control of Drosophila body pattern by the hunchback morphogen gradient. Cell 69, 237-249.
45. Subramanian, V., Meyer, B.I., and Gruss, P. (1995). Disruption of the murine homeobox gene Cdx1 affects axial skeletal identities by altering the mesodermal expression domains of Hox genes. Cell 83, 641-653.
46. Sulston, J.E., Schierenberg, E., White, J.G., and Thomson, J.N. (1983). The embryonic cell lineage of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev. Biol. 100, 64-119.
47. Surdej, P., Riedl, A., and Jacobs-Lorena, M. (1994). Regulation of mRNA stability in development. Annu. Rev. Genet. 28, 263-282.
48. Waring, D.A., and Kenyon, C. (1990). Selective silencing of cell communication influences anteroposterior pattern formation in C. elegans. Cell 60, 123-131.
49. Waring, D.A., and Kenyon, C. (1991). Regulation of cellular responsiveness to inductive signals in the developing C. elegans nervous system. Nature 350, 712-715.
50. Wharton, R.P., and Struhl, G. (1991). RNA regulatory elements mediate control of Drosophila body pattern by the posterior morphogen nanos. Cell 67, 955-967.
51. Wood, W.B., and Edgar, L.G. (1994). Patterning the C. elegans embryo. Trends Genet. 10, 49-54.
52. Xu, X., Xu, P.X., and Suzuki, Y. (1994). A maternal homeobox gene, Bombyx caudal, forms both mRNA and protein concentration gradients spanning anteroposterior axis during gastrulation. Development 120, 277-285.
53. Yandell, M.D., Edgar, L.G., and Wood, W.B. (1994). Trimethylpsoralen induces small deletion mutations in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 1381-1385.