Anf: A novel class of vertebrate homeobox genes expressed at the anterior end of the main embryonic axis

Gene

Volumn 200, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 25-34

  Kazanskaya, Olga V ^a   Severtzova, Elena A ^a   Barth, K Anukampa ^b   Ermakova, Galina V ^a   Lukyanov, Sergey A ^a   Benyumov, Alex O ^c   Pannese, Maria ^d   Boncinelli, Edoardo ^d,e   Wilson, Stephen W ^b   Zaraisky, Andrey G ^a  

^a SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embryo; Forebrain patterning; Homeobox genes

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NEWT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHICKENS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SALAMANDRIDAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VERTEBRATES; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0030778534     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00326-0     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Barnes, W.M., 1994. PCR amplification of up to 35-kb DNA with high fidelity and high yield from λ bacteriophage templates. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91, 2216-2220.
2. Boncinelli, E., Gulisano, M., Broccoli, V., 1993. Emx and Otx homeobox genes in the developing mouse brain. J. Neurobiol. 24, 1356-1366.
3. Burri, M., Tromvoukis, Y., Bopp, D., Frigerio, G., Noll, M., 1989. Conservation of the paired domain in metazoans and its structure in three isolated human genes. EMBO J. 8, 1183-1190.
4. Chenchik, A., Diachenko, L., Tarabykin, V., Lukyanov, S., Siebert, D., 1996. Full-length cloning and determination of mRNA 5′-and 3′-ends by amplification of adapter-ligated cDNA. BioTechniques 21, 526-534.
5. Chomczynski, P., Sacchi, N., 1987. Single-step method of RNA isolation by acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenolchlorophorm extraction. Analyt. Biochem. 162, 156-162.
6. Couly, G.F., LeDouarin, N.M., 1987. Mapping of the early neural primordium in quail-chick chimeras. Dev. Biol. 120, 198-214.
7. Desplan, C., Theis, J., O'Farrell, P.H., 1988. The sequence specificity of homeodomain-DNA interaction. Cell 54, 1081-1090.
8. Detlaff, T.A., Ginsburg, A.S. Embryonic development of Acipenseridae and the questions of their breeding. USSR Acad. Sci. Press, Moscow 1954 (in Russian).
9. Eagleson, G.W., Harris, W.A., 1990. Mapping of the presumptive brain regions in the neural plate of Xenopus laevis. J. Neurobiol. 21, 427-440.
10. Figdor, M.C., Stern, C., 1993. Segmental organization of embryonic diencephalon. Nature 363, 630-634.
11. Fritz, A.F., Cho, K.W., Wright, C.V., Jegalian, B.G., DeRobertis, E.M., 1989. Duplicated homeobox genes in Xenopus. Dev. Biol. 131, 584-588.
12. Furukubo-Tokunaga, K., Muller, M., Affolter, M., Pick, L., Kloter, U., Gehring, W.J., 1992. In vivo analysis of the helix-turn-helix motif of the fushi tarazu homeo domain of Drosophila melanogaster. Genes Dev. 6, 1082-1096.
13. Gallien, L., Durocher, M., 1957. Table chronologique du developpment chez Pleurodeles waltlii Michah. Bull. biol. France Belgique 91, 97-114.
14. Gehring, W.J., Qian, Y.Q., Billeter, M., Furukubo-Tokunaga, K., Schier, A.F., Resendez-Perez, D., Affolter, M., Otting, G., Wuthrich, K., 1994. Homeodomain-DNA recognition. Cell 78, 211-223.
15. Gibson, G., Schier, A., LeMotte, P., Gehring, W.J., 1990. The specificites of Sex combs reduced and Antennapedia are defined by a distinct portion of each protein that includes the homeodomain. Cell 62, 1087-1103.
16. Hanes, S.D., Brent, R., 1989. DNA specificity of the bicoid activator protein is determined by homeodomain recognition helix residue 9. Cell 57, 1275-1283.
17. Harland, R.M., 1991. In situ hybridization: an improved whole-mount method for Xenopus embryos. In: Kay, B.K., Peng, H.B. (Eds.), Methods in Cell Biology: Xenopus laevis: Practical Uses in Cell and Molecular Biology, Vol. 36, pp. 685-695.
18. Hawkins, N.C., McGhee, J.D., 1990. Homeobox containing genes in the nematode Caenorahabditis elegans. Nucl. Acids Res. 18, 6101-6106.
19. Hamburger, V., Hamilton, H., 1951. A series of normal stages in the development of the chick embryo. J. Morphol. 88, 49-92.
20. Hermesz, E., Mackem, S., Mahon, K.A., 1996. Rpx: a novel anterior-restricted homeobox gene progressively activated in the prechordal plate, anterior neural plate and Rathke's pouch of the mouse embryo. Development 122, 41-52.
21. Kappen, C., Schughart, K., Ruddle, F.H., 1993. Early evolutionary origin of major homeodomain sequence classes. Genomics 18, 54-70.
22. Kimmel, C.B., Ballard, W.W., Kimmel, S.R., Ullmann, B., Schilling, T., 1995. Stages of embryonic development of the zebrafish. Deve. Dyn. 203, 253-310.
23. Lin, L., McGinnis, W., 1992. Mapping functional specificity in the Dfd and Ubx homeodomains. Genes Devel. 6, 1071-1081.
24. Lukyanov, K.A., Launer, G.A., Tarabykin, V.S., Zaraisky, A.G., Lukyanov, S.A., 1995. Inverted terminal repeats permit the average length of amplified DNA fragments to be regulated during preparation of cDNA libraries by polymerase chain reaction. Analyt. Biochem. 229, 198-202.
25. Macdonald, R., Xu, Q., Barth, K.A., Mikkola, I., Holder, N., Fjose, A., Krauss, S., Wilson, S.W., 1994. Regulatory gene expression boundaries demarcate sites of neuronal differentiation and reveal neuromeric organisation of the zebrafish forebrain. Neuron 13, 1039-1053.
26. McGinnis, W., Krumlauf, R., 1992. Homeoboxes and axial patterning. Cell 68, 283-302.
27. Mathers, P., Miller, A., Doniach, T., Dirksen, M.-L., Jamrich, M., 1995. Initiation of anterior head-specific gene expression in uncommitted ectoderm of Xenopus laevis by ammonium chloride. Dev. Biol. 171, 641-654.
28. Mori, H., Miyazaki, Y., Morita, T., Nitta, H., Mishina, M., 1994. Different spatio-temporal expression of three otx homeoprotein transcripts during zebrafish embryogenesis. Brain Res. Mol. Brain. Res. 27, 221-231.
29. Puelles, L., Rubenstain, J.L.R., 1993. Expression patterns of homeobox and other putative regulatory genes in the embryonic mouse forebrain suggest a neuromeric organisation. Trends Neurosci. 16, 472-479.
30. Richter, K., Good, P.J., Dawid, I.B., 1990. A developmentally regulated nervous system-specific gene in Xenopus encodes a putative RNA-binding protein. New Biologist 2, 556-565.
31. Scholer, H.R., Ruppert, S., Suzuki, N., Chowdhury, K., Gruss, P., 1990. New type of POU domain in germ-line specific protein Oct-4. Nature 344, 435-439.
32. Scott, M.T., Tamkun, J.W., Hartzell, G.W., 1989. III. The structure and function of the homeodomain. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 989, 25-48.
33. Siebert, P.D., Chenchik, A., Kellogg, D.E., Lukyanov, K.A., Lukyanov, S.A., 1995. An improved PCR method for walking in uncloned genomic DNA. Nucl. Acids Res. 23, 1087-1088.
34. Simeone, A., Acampora, D., Mallamaci, A., Stornaiuolo, A., D'Apice, M.R., Nigro, V., Boncinelli, E., 1993. Two vertebrate homeobox genes related to the Drosophila empty spiracles gene are expressed in the embryonic cerebral cortex. EMBO J. 12, 2735-2747.
35. Stein, S., Fritsch, R., Lemaire, L., Kessel, M., 1996. Checklist: Vertebrate homeobox genes. Mech. Dev. 55, 91-108.
36. Sornson, M.W., Wu, W., Dasen, J., Flynn, S., Norman, D., O'Connell, S., Gukovshy, I., Carriere, C., Ryan, A., Miller, A., Zuo, L., Gleiverman, A., Andersen, B., Beamer, W., Rosenfeld, G., 1996. Pituitary lineage determination by the Prophet of Pit-1 homeodomain factor defective in Ames dwarfism. Nature 384, 327-333.
37. Thomas, P.Q., Johnson, B.V., Rathjen, J., Rathjen, P.D., 1995. Sequence, genomic organization, and expression of the novel homeobox gene Hesxl. J. Biol. Chem. 270, 3869-3875.
38. Thomas, P.Q., Beddington, R., 1996. Anterior primitive endoderm may be responsible for patterning the anterior neural plate in the mouse embryo. Curr. Biol. 6, 1487-1496.
39. Xu, Q., Holder, N., Patient, R., Wilson, S.W., 1994. Spatially regulated expression of three receptor tyrosine kinase genes during gastrulation in the zebrafish. Development 120, 287-289.
40. Zaraisky, A.G., Lukyanov, S.A., Vasiliev, O.L., Smirnov, Y.V., Belyavsky, A.V., Kazanskaya, O.V., 1992. A novel homeobox gene expressed in the anterior neural plate of the Xenopus embryo. Dev. Biol. 152, 373-382.
41. Zaraisky, A.G., Ecochard, V., Kazanskaya, O.V., Lukyanov, S.A., Fesenko, I.V., Duprat, A.-M., 1995. The homeobox-containing gene XANF-1 may control development of the Spemann organizer. Development 121, 3839-3847.