Genes required for GLP-1 asymmetry in the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo

Developmental Biology

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 36-46

  Crittenden, Sarah L ^a   Rudel, David ^a   Binder, Joe ^a   Evans, Thomas C ^a,b   Kimble, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO ASYMMETRY; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031042720     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.8413     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Austin, J., and Kimble, J. (1987). glp-1 is required in the germ line for regulation of the decision between mitosis and meiosis in C. elegans. Cell 51, 589-599.
2. Austin, J., and Kimble, J. (1989). Transcript analysis of glp-1 and lin-12 homologous genes required for cell interactions during development of C. elegans. Cell 58, 565-571.
3. Berry, L. W., Westlund, B., and Schedl, T. (1996). Germline tumor formation caused by activation of glp-1, a member of the Notch family of receptors. Development, in press.
4. 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.
5. Bowerman, B., Draper, B. W., Mello, C. C., and Priess, J. F. (1993). The maternal gene skn-1 encodes a protein that is distributed unequally in early C. elegans embryos. Cell 74, 443-452.
6. 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.
7. Boyd, L., Guo, S., Levitan, D., Stinchcomb, D. T., and Kemphues, K. J. (1996). PAR-2 is asymmetrically distributed and promotes association of P granules and PAR-1 with the cortex in C. elegans embryos. Development 122, 3075-3084.
8. Brenner, S. (1974). The genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 77, 71-94.
9. Cassada, R., Isnenghi, E., Culotti, M., and von Ehrenstein, G. (1981). Genetic analysis of temperature-sensitive embryogenesis mutants in Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev. Biol. 84, 193-205.
10. Cheng, N. N., Kirby, C. M., and Kemphues, K. J. (1995). Control of cleavage spindle orientation in Caenorhabditis elegans: The role of the genes par-2 and par-3. Genetics 139, 549-559.
11. Christensen, S., Kodoyianni, V., Bosenberg, M., Friedman, L., and Kimble, J. (1996). lag-1, a gene required for lin-12 and glp-1 signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans, is homologous to human CBF1 and Drosophila Su(H). Development 122, 1373-1383.
12. Cowan, A. E., and McIntosh, J. R. (1985). Mapping the distribution of differentiation potential for intestine, muscle, and hypodermis during early development in Caenorhabditis elegans. Cell 41, 923-932.
13. Crittenden, S. L., Troemel, E. R., Evans, T. C., and Kimble, J. (1994). GLP-1 is localized to the mitotic region of the C. elegans germ line. Development 120, 2901-2911.
14. Draper, B. W., Mello, C. M., 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, in press.
15. Etemad-Moghadam, B., Guo, S., and Kemphues, K. J. (1995). Asymmetrically distributed PAR-3 protein contributes to cell polarity and spindle alignment in early C. elegans embryos. Cell 83, 743-752.
16. 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.
17. Gavis, E. R., and Lehmann, R. (1994). Localization of nanos RNA controls embryonic polarity. Nature 369, 315-318.
18. Gendreau, S. B., Moskowitz, I. P. G., Terns, R. M., and Rothman, J. H. (1994). The potential to differentiate epidermis is unequally distributed in the AB lineage during early embryonic development in C. elegans. Dev. Biol. 166, 770-781.
19. Goldstein, B., and Hird, S. N. (1996). Specification of the anteroposterior axis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Development 122, 1467-1474.
20. 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.
21. Guo, S., and Kemphues, K. J. (1996). Molecular genetics of asymmetric cleavage in the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 6, 408-415.
22. Hill, D. P., and Strome, S. (1988). An analysis of the role of microfilaments in the establishment and maintenance of asymmetry in Caenorhabditis elegans zygotes. Dev. Biol. 125, 75-84.
23. Hill, D. P., and Strome, S. (1990). Brief cytochalasin-induced disruption of microfilaments during a critical interval in 1-cell C. elegans embryos alters the partitioning of developmental instructions to the 2-cell embryo. Development 108, 159-172.
24. Hird, S. (1996). Cortical actin movements during the first cell cycle of the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo. J. Cell Sci. 109, 525-533.
25. Hird, S. N., and White, J. G. (1993). Cortical and cytoplasmic flow polarity in early embryonic cells of Caenorhabditis elegans. J. Cell Biol. 121, 1343-1355.
26. Hunter, C. P., and Kenyon, C. (1996). Spatial and temporal controls target pal-I blastomere specification activity to a single blastomere lineage in C. elegans embryos. Cell 87, 217-226.
27. Hutter, H., and Schnabel, R. (1994). glp-1 and inductions establishing embryonic axes in C. elegans. Development 120, 2051-2064.
28. Hutter, H., and Schnabel, R. (1995). Establishment of left-right asymmetry in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo: A multistep process involving a series of inductive events. Development 121, 3417-3424.
29. Kemphues, K. J., Priess, J. R., Morton, D. G., and Cheng, N. (1988). Identification of genes required for cytoplasmic localization of early C. elegans embryos. Cell 52, 311-320.
30. Kirby, C., Kusch, M., and Kemphues, K. (1990). Mutations in the par genes of Caenorhabditis elegans affect cytoplasmic reorganization during the first cell cycle. Dev. Biol. 142, 203-215.
31. Kodoyianni, V., Maine, E. M., and Kimble, J. (1992). Molecular basis of loss-of-function mutations in the glp-1 gene of Caenorhabditis elegans. Mol. Biol. Cell 3, 1199-1213.
32. Laufer, J. S., Bazzicalupo, P., and Wood, W. B. (1980). Segregation of developmental potential in early embryos of Caenorhabditis elegans. Cell 19, 569-577.
33. Lehmann, R. (1995). Establishment of embryonic polarity during Drosophila oogenesis. Semin. Dev. Biol. 6, 25-38.
34. Levitan, D. J., Boyd, L., Mello, C. C., Kemphues, K. J., and Stinchcomb, D. T. (1994). par-2, a gene required for blastomere asymmetry in Caenorhabditis elegans, encodes zinc-finger and ATP-binding motifs. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91, 6108-6112.
35. Mango, S. E., Thorpe, C. J., Martin, P. R., Chamberlain, S. H., and Bowerman, B. (1994a). 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.
36. Mango, S. E., Lambie, E. J., and Kimble, J. (1994b). The pha-4 gene is required to generate the pharyngeal primordium of Caenorhabditis elegans. Development 120, 3019-3031.
37. Mello, C. C., Draper, B. W., Krause, M., Weintraub, H., and Preiss, 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.
38. 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.
39. Mello, C. C., Schubert, C., Draper, B., Zhang, W., Lobel, R., and Priess, J. R. (1996). The PIE-1 protein and germline specification in C. elegans embryos. Nature 382, 710-712.
40. Mickey, K. M., Mello, C. C., Montgomery, M. K., Fire, A., and Priess, J. R. (1996). An inductive interaction in 4-cell stage C. elegans embryos involves APX-1 expression in the signaling cell. Development 122, 1791-1798.
41. Miwa, J., Schierenberg, E., Miwa, S., and von Ehrenstein, G. (1980). Genetics and mode of expression of temperature-sensitive mutations arresting embryonic development in Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev. Biol. 76, 160-174.
42. Morton, D. G., Roos, J. M., and Kemphues, K. J. (1992). par-4, a gene required for cytoplasmic localization and determination of specific cell types in Caenorhabditis elegans embryogenesis. Genetics 130, 771-790.
43. Moskowitz, I. P. G., 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.
44. Moskowitz, I. P. G., and Rothman, J. (1996). LIN-12 and GLP-1 are required zygotically for early embryonic cellular interactions and are regulated by maternal GLP-1 signalling in Caenorhabditis elegans. Development 122, 4105-4117.
45. Priess, J. R., Schnabel, H., and Schnabel, R. (1987). The glp-1 locus and cellular interactions in early C. elegans embryos. Cell 51, 601-611.
46. Priess, J. R., and Thomson, J. N. (1987). Cellular interactions in early C. elegans embryos. Cell 48, 241-250.
47. Roehl, H., and Kimble, J. (1993). Control of cell fate in C. elegans by a GLP-1 peptide consisting primarily of ankyrin repeats. Nature 364, 632-635.
48. Schnabel, R., Weigner, C., Hutter, H., Feichtinger, R., and Schnabel, H. (1996). mex-1 and the general partitioning of cell fate in the early C. elegans embryo. Mech. Dev. 54, 133-147.
49. Seydoux, G., and Greenwald, I. (1989). Cell autonomy of lin-12 function in a cell fate decision in C. elegans. Cell 57, 1237-1245.
50. Shelton, C. A., and Bowerman, B. (1996). Time-dependent responses to glp-1 mediated inductions in early C. elegans embryos. Development 122, 2043-2050.
51. 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.
52. Strome, S., and Wood, W. B. (1983). Generation of asymmetry and segregation of germ-line granules in early C. elegans embryos. Cell 35, 15-25.
53. Sulston, J. E., Schierenberg, E., White, J. G., and Thomson, J. N. (1983). The embryonic lineage of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev. Biol. 100, 64-119.
54. Watts, J. L., Etemad-Moghadam, B., Guo, S., Boyd, L., Draper, B. W., Mello, C. C., Priess, J. R., and Kemphues, K. K. (1996). par-6, a gene involved in the establishment of asymmetry in early C. elegans embryos, mediates the asymmetric localization of PAR-3. Development 122, 3133-3140.
55. Wilkinson, H.A., Fitzgerald, K., and Greenwald, I. (1994). Reciprocal changes in expression of the receptor LIN-12 and its ligand LAG-2 prior to commitment in a C. elegans cell fate decision. Cell 79, 1187-1198.
56. Wood, W. B., Hecht, R., Carr, S., Vanderslice, R., Wolf, N., and Hirsh, D. (1980). Parental effects and phenotypic characterization of mutations that affect early development in Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev. Biol. 74, 446-469.
57. Yochem, J., and Greenwald, I. (1989). glp-1 and lin-12, genes implicated in distinct cell-cell interactions in C. elegans, encode similar transmembrane proteins. Cell 58, 553-563.