Somatic linker histones cause loss of mesodermal competence in Xenopus

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6649, 1997, Pages 395-399

  Steinbach, Oliver C ^a   Wolffe, Alan P ^b   Rupp, Ralph A W ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER LABORATORY OF THE MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA HISTONE INTERACTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; MESODERM; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTONES; INHIBINS; MESODERM; MUSCLES; MYOD PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030824599     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38755     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Jones, E. A. & Woodland, H. R. The development of animal cap cells in Xenopus: a measure of the start of animal cap competence to form mesoderm. Development 101, 557-563 (1987).
2. Grainger, R. M. & Gurdon, J. B. Loss of competence in amphibian induction can take place in single nondividing cells. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 86, 1900-1904 (1989).
3. Paranjape, S. M., Kamakaka, R. T. & Kadonaga, J. T. Role of chromatin structure in the regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 63, 265-297 (1994).
4. Bouvet, P., Dimitrov, S. & Wolffe, A. R. Specific regulation of Xenopus chromosomal 5S rRNA gene transcription in vivo by histone H1. Genes Dev. 8, 1147-1159 (1994).
5. Kandolf, H. The H1A histone variant is an in vivo represser of oocyte-type 5S gene transcription in Xenopus laevis embryos. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci USA 91, 7257-7260 (1994).
6. Patterton, D. & Wolffe, A. P. Developmental roles for chromatin and chromosomal structure. Dev. Biol. 173, 2-13 (1996).
7. Newport, J. & Kirschner, M. A major developmental transition in early Xenopus embryos: II. control of the onset of transcription. Cell 30, 687-696 (1982).
8. Dworkin-Rastl, E., Kandolf, H. & Smith, R. C. The maternal histone H1 variant, H1M (B4 protein), is the predominant HI histone in Xenopus pregastrula embryos. Dev. Biol. 161, 425-439 (1994).
9. Dimitrov, S., Almouzni, G., Dasso, M. & Wolffe, A. P. Chromatin transitions during early Xenopus embryogenesis: changes in histone H4 acetylation and in linker histone type. Dev. Biol. 160, 214-227 (1993).
10. Smith, J. C. Mesoderm-inducing factors and mesodermal patterning. Curr. Opin, Cell Biol. 7, 856-861 (1995).
11. Symes, K. & Smith, J. C. Gastrulation movements provide an early marker of mesoderm induction in Xenopus laevis. Development 101, 339-349 (1987).
12. Nieuwkoop, P. D. & Faber, J. Normal table of Xenopus laevis (Daudin) (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1967).
13. Rudnicki, M. A. et al. MyoD or Myf-5 is required for the formation of skeletal muscle. Cell 75, 1351-1359 (1993).
14. Hopwood, N. D., Pluck, A. & Gurdon, J. B. MyoD expression in the forming somites is an early response to mesoderm induction in Xenopus embryos. EMBO J. 8, 3409-3417 (1989).
15. Rupp, R. A. W. & Weintraub, H. Ubiquitous MyoD transcription at the midblastula transition precedes induction-dependent MyoD expression in presumptive mesoderm of X. laevis. Cell 65, 927-937 (1991).
16. Smith J.C., Price, B.M.J., Green, J.B.A., Weigel, D. & Hermann, B.G. Expression of a Xenopushomolog of Brachyury (T) is an immediate-early response to mesoderm induction. Cell 67, 79-87 (1991).
17. Koster, M. et al. Bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP-4), a member of the TGF-β family, in early embryos of Xenopus laevis: analysis of mesoderm inducing activity. Mech. Dev. 33, 191-200 (1991).
18. Christian, J. L., McMahon, J. A., McMahon, A. P. & Moon, R. T. Xwnt-8, a Xenopus Wnt-1/int-1-related gene responsive to mesoderm-inducing growth factors, may play a role in ventral mesodermal patterning during embryogenesis. Development 111, 1045-1055 (1991).
19. Pevny, L. et al. Erythroid differentiation in chimaeric mice blocked by a targeted mutation in the gene for transcription factor GATA-1. Nature 349, 257-260 (1991).
20. Svaren, J. & Hörz, W. Regulation of gene expression by nucleosomes. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 6, 164-170 (1996).
21. Hartzog, G. A. & Winston, F. Nucleosomes and transcription: recent lessons from genetics, Curr. Opin. Genet. 7, 192-198 (1997).
22. Krieg, P. & Melton, D. A. Developmental regulation of a gastrula-specific gene injected into fertilized Xenopus eggs. EMBO J. 4, 3463-3471 (1985).
23. Tsuda, T., Hamamori, Y., Yamashita, T., Fukumoto, Y. & Takai, Y. Involvement of three intracellular messenger systems, protein kinase C, calcium ion and cyclic AMP, in the regulation of c-fos gene expression in Swiss 3T3 cells. FEBS Lett. 208, 39-42 (1986).
24. Frank, D. & Harland, R. M. Transient expression of XMyoD in non-somitic mesoderm of Xenopus gastrulate. Development 113, 1387-1393 (1991).
25. Dale, L. & Slack, J. M. W. Fate map for the32-cell stage of Xenopus laevis. Development 99, 527-551 (1987).
26. Rupp, R. A. W., Snider, L. & Weintraub, H. Xenopus embryos regulate the nuclear localization of XMyoD. Genes Dev. 8, 1311-1323 (1994).
27. Steinbeisser, H., Fainsod, A., Niehrs, C., Sasai, Y. & De Robertis, E. M. The role of gsc and BMP-4 in dorsal-ventral patterning of the marginal zone in Xenopus a loss-of-function study using antisense RNA. EMBO J. 14, 5230-5243 (1995).
28. Sokol, S., Wong, G. G. & Melton, D. A. A mouse macrophage factor induces head structures and organizes a body axis in Xenopus. Science 249, 561-564 (1990).
29. Bader, D., Masaki, T. & Fischman, D. A. Immunochemical analysis of myosin heavy chain during avian myogenesis in vivo and in vitro. J. Cell Biol. 95, 763-770 (1982).