Characterization of a notochord-specific enhancer from the Brachyury promoter region of the ascidian, Ciona intestinalis

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 589-602

  Corbo, Joseph C ^a,b   Levine, Michael ^a,b   Zeller, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachyury; Cell lineage; Ciona intestinalis; Notochord; Suppressor of Hairless; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; MESENCHYME; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031055201     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Amaya, E., Musci, T. J. and Kirschner, M. W. (1991). Expression of a dominant negative mutant of the FGF receptor disrupts mesoderm formation in Xenopus embryos. Development 118, 477-487.
2. Ang, S. L. and Rossant, J. (1994). HNF-3β is essential for node and notochord formation in mouse development. Cell 78, 561-574.
3. Alberga, A., Boulay, J. L., Kempe, E., Dennefeld, C. and Haenlin M. (1991). The snail gene required for mesoderm formation in Drosophila is expressed dynamically in derivatives of all three germ layers. Development 111, 983-992.
4. Artavanis-Tsakonas, S., Matsuno, K., and Fortini, M. E. (1995). Notch signaling. Science 268, 225-232.
5. Bailey, A. M. and Posakony, J. W. (1995). Suppressor of Hairless directly activates transcription of Enhancer of Split Complex genes in response to Notch receptor activity. Genes Dev. 9, 2609-2622.
6. Berrill, N. J. (1955). The Origin of Vertebrates. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
7. Bierkamp, C. and Campos-Ortega, J. A. (1993). A zebrafish homologue of the Drosophila neurogenic gene Notch and its pattern of transcription during early embryogenesis. Mech. Dev. 43, 87-100.
8. Castle, W. E. (1896). The early embryology of Ciona intestinalis Flemming (L.). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 27, 203-280.
9. Clark, K. L., Malay, E. D., Lai, E. and Burley, S. K. (1993). Co-crystal structure of the HNF-3/fork head DNA-recognition motif resembles histone H5. Nature 364, 412-420.
10. Clements, D., Taylor, H. C., Herrmann, B. G., and Stott, D. (1996). Distinct regulatory control of the Brachyury gene in axial and non-axial mesoderm suggests separation of mesoderm lineages early in mouse gastrulation. Mech. Dev. 56, 139-149.
11. Cloney, R. A. (1964). Development of the ascidian notochord. Acta. Embryol. Morphol. Exp. 7, 111-130.
12. Cloney, R. A. (1990). Urochordata-Ascidiacea. In Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates (ed. K. G. Adiyodi and R. G. Adiyodi), pp. 391-451. New Delhi: Oxford and IBH.
13. Conklin, E. G. (1905). The organization and cell lineage of the ascidian egg. J. Acad. Nat. Sci. (Philadelphia) 13, 1-119.
14. Cormack, B. P., Valdivia, R. H. and Falkow, S. (1996). FACS-optimized mutants of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). Gene 173, 33-38.
15. Crameri, A., Whitehorn, E. A., Tatė, E. and Stemmer, W. P. C. (1996). Improved green fluorescent protein by molecular evolution using DNA shuffling. Nature Biotech. 14, 315-319.
16. 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.
17. Garstang, W. (1928). The morphology of the tunicata, and its bearings on the phylogeny of the chordata. Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 72, 51-187.
18. Gilbert, S. F. (1994). Developmental Biology. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Mass.
19. Gray, S. and Levine, M. (1996). Short-range transcriptional repressors mediate both quenching and direct repression within complex loci in Drosophila. Genes Dev. 10, 700-710.
20. Hammerschmidt, M. and Nusslein-Volhard, C. (1993). The expression of a zebrafish gene homologous to Drosophila snail suggests a conserved function in invertebrate and vertebrate gastrulation. Development 119, 1107-1118.
21. Heim, R., Prasher, D. C. and Tsien, R. Y. (1994). Wavelength mutations and posttranslational autoxidation of green fluorescent protein. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 91, 12501-12504.
22. Herrmann, B. G. (1995). Introduction: the Brachyury gene. Sem. Dev. Biol. 6, 381-384.
23. Herrmann, B. G., Labeit, S., Poustka, A., King, T. R. and Lehrach, H. (1990). Cloning of the T gene required in mesoderm formation in the mouse. Nature 343, 617-622.
24. Hikosaka, A., Kusakabe, T. and Satoh, N. (1994). Short upstream sequences associated with the muscle-specific expression of an actin gene in ascidian embryos. Dev. Biol. 166, 763-769.
25. Hikosaka, A., Kusakabe, T., Satoh, N. and Makabe, K. W. (1992). Introduction and expression of recombinant genes in ascidian embryos. Dev. Growth Differ. 34, 631-638.
26. Hikosaka, A., Satoh, N. and Makabe, K. W. (1993). Regulated spatial expression of fusion gene constructs with the 5′ upstream region of Halocynthia roretzi in Ciona savignyi embryos. Roux's Arch. Dev. Biol. 203, 104-112.
27. Hoch, M., Gerwin, N., Taubert, H. and Jackle, H. (1992). Competition for overlapping sites in the regulatory region of the Drosophila gene Krueppel. Science 256, 94-97.
28. Holland, P. W. H., Korschorz, B., Holland, L. Z. and Herrmann, B. G. (1995). Conservation of Brachyury (T) genes in amphioxus and vertebrates: developmental and evolutionary implications. Development 121, 4283-4291.
29. Ip, Y. T., Park R. E., Kosman, D., Bier, E. and Levine, M. (1992). The dorsal gradient morphogen regulates stripes of rhomboid expression in the presumptive neuroectoderm of the Drosophila embryo. Genes Dev. 6, 1728-1739.
30. Isaacs, H. V., Pownall, M. E. and Slack, J. M. W. (1994). eFGF regulates Xbra expression during Xenopus gastrulation. EMBO J. 13, 4469-4481.
31. Jarriault, S., Brou, C., Logeat, F., Schroeter, E. H., Kopan, R. and Israel, A. (1995). Signalling downstream of activated mammalian Notch. Nature 377, 355-358
32. Kiehart, D. P. (1982). Microinjection of echinoderm eggs: apparatus and procedures. Meth. Cell Biol. 25, 13-31.
33. Kispert, A. and Herrmann, B. G. (1993). The Brachyury gene encodes a novel DNA binding protein. EMBO J. 12, 3211-3220.
34. Kispert, A., Ortner, H., Cooke, J. and Herrmann, B. G. (1995). The chick Brachyury gene: developmental expression pattern and response to axial induction by localized activin. Dev. Biol. 168, 406-415.
35. Kosman, D., Ip, Y. T., Levine, M. and Arora, K. (1991). Establishment of the mesoderm-neuroectoderm boundary in the Drosophila embryo. Science 254, 118-122.
36. Kramatschek, B. and Campos-Ortega, J. A. (1994). Neuroectodermal transcription the Drosophila neurogenic genes E(spl) and HLH-m5 is regulated by proneural genes. Development 120, 815-826.
37. Kusakabe, T., Hikosaka, A. and Satoh, N. (1995). Coexpression and promoter function in two muscle actin gene complexes of different structural organization in the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi. Dev. Biol. 169, 461-472.
38. Kusakabe, T., Swalla, B. J., Satoh, N. and Jeffery, W. R. (1996) Mechanism of an evolutionary change in muscle cell differentiation in ascidians with different modes of development. Dev. Biol. 174, 379-392.
39. Lambert, C. C. and Laird, C. (1971). Molecular properties of tunicate DNA. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 240, 39-45.
40. Leptin, M. (1991). twist and snail as positive and negative regulators during Drosophila mesoderm development. Genes Dev. 5, 1568-1576.
41. Mancuso, V. and Dolcemascolo, G. (1977). Aspetti ultrastrutturali della corda delle larve di Ciona intestinalis durante l'allungamento della coda. Acta Embryol. Exp. 2, 207-220.
42. Mita-Miyazawa, I., Ikegami, S. and Satoh, N. (1985). Histospecific acteylcholinesterase development in the presumptive muscle cells isolated from 16-cell-stage ascidian embryos with respect to the number of DNA replications. J. Embryol. Exp. Morph. 87, 1-12.
43. Miyamoto, D. M. and Crowther, R. J. (1985). Formation of the notochord in living ascidian embryos. J. Embryol. exp. Morph. 86, 1-17.
44. Nakatani, Y. and Nishida, H. (1994). Induction of notochord during ascidian embryogenesis. Dev. Biol. 166, 289-299.
45. Nakatani, Y., Yasuo, H., Satoh, N. and Nishida, H. (1996). Basic fibroblast growth factor induces notochord formation and the expression of As-T, a Brachyury homolog, during ascidian embryogenesis. Development 122, 2023-2031.
46. Nishida, H. (1987). Cell lineage analysis in ascidian embryos by intracellular injection of a tracer enzyme. III. Up to the tissue restricted stage. Dev. Biol. 121, 526-541.
47. Nishida, H. (1992). Regionality of egg cytoplasm that promotes muscle differentiation in embryos of the ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi. Development 116, 521-529.
48. Popperl, H., Bienz, M., Studer, M., Chan, S. K., Aparicio, S., Brenner, S., Mann, R. S. and Krumlauf, R. (1995). Segmental expression of Hoxb-1 is controlled by a highly conserved autoregulatory loop dependent upon exd/pbx. Cell 81, 1031-1042.
49. Rhodes, S. J., Di Mattia, G. E. and Rosenfeld, M. G. (1994). Transcriptional mechanisms of anterior pituitary cell differentiation. Curr. Op. Genet. Dev. 4, 709-717.
50. Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E. F. and Maniatis, T. (1989). Molecular Cloning: a Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Plainview, New York.
51. Sasaki, H. and Hogan, B. L. (1993). Differential expression of multiple fork head related genes during gastrulation and axial pattern formation in the mouse embryo. Development 118, 47-59.
52. Sasaki, H. and Hogan, B. L. (1996). Enhancer analysis of the mouse HNF-3β gene: regulatory elements for node/notochord and floor plate are independent and consist of multiple sub-elements. Genes to Cells 1, 59-72.
53. Satoh, N. (1994). Developmental Biology of Ascidians. Cambridge University Press, New York.
54. Satoh, N. and Jeffery, W. R. (1995). Chasing tails in ascidians: developmental insights into the origin and evolution of chordates. Trends Genet. 11, 354-359.
55. Schulte-Merker, S., van Eede, F. J., Halpern, M. E., Kimmel, C. B. and Nusslein-Volhard, C. (1994). no tail (ntl) is the zebrafish homologue of the mouse T (Brachyury) gene. Development 120, 1009-1015.
56. Slack, J. M. W., Darlington, B. G., Heath, J. K. and Godsave, S. F. (1987). Mesoderm induction in early Xenopus embryos by heparin-binding growth factors. Nature 326, 197-200.
57. Small, S., Kraut, R., Hoey, T., Warrior, R. and Levine, M. (1991). Transcriptional regulation of a pair-rule stripe in Drosophila. Genes Dev. 5, 827-839.
58. Small, S., Blair, A. and Levine, M. (1992). Regulation of even-skipped stripe 2 in the Drosophila embryo. EMBO J. 11, 4047-4057.
59. Smith, J. C., Price, B. M., Green, J. B., Weigel, D. and Herrmann, B. G. (1991). Expression of a Xenopus homolog of Brachyury (T) is an immediateearly response to mesoderm induction. Cell 67, 79-87.
60. Stanojevic, D., Small, S. and Levine, M. (1991). Regulation of a segmentation stripe by overlapping activators and repressers in the Drosophila embryo. Science 254, 1385-1387.
61. Swalla, B. J. (1993). Mechanisms of gastrulation and tail formation in ascidians. Microsc. Res. Tech. 26, 274-284.
62. Talbot, W. S., Trevarrow, B., Halpern, M. E., Melby, A. E., Farr, G., Postlethwait, J. H., Jowett, T., Kimmel, C. B. and Kimelman, D. (1995). A homeobox gene essential for zebrafish notochord development. Nature 378, 150-157.
63. Tun, T., Hamaguchi, N., Matsunami, T., Furukawa, T., Honjo, T. and Kawaichi, M. (1994). Recognition sequence of a highly conserved DNA binding protein RBP-Jk. Nucl. Acids Res. 22, 965-971.
64. van Beneden, E. and Julin, C. (1886). Recherches sur la morphologie des tuniciers. Arch. de Biologie 6.
65. Watabe, T., Kim, S., Candia, A., Rothbacher, U., Hashimoto, C., Inoue, K. and Cho, K. W. (1995). Molecular mechanisms of Spemann's organizer formation: conserved growth factor synergy between Xenopus and mouse. Genes Dev. 9, 3038-3050.
66. Weinstein, D. C., Ruiz i Altaba, A., Chen, W. S., Hoodless, P., Prezioso, V. R., Jessell, T. M. and Darnell, J. E. Jr. (1994). The winged-helix transcription factor HNF-3β is required for notochord development in the mouse embryo. Cell 78, 575-588.
67. Whittaker, J. R. (1973). Segregation during ascidian embryogenesis of egg cytoplasmic information for tissue-specific enzyme development. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 70, 2096-2100.
68. Yamaguchi, T. P., Harpal, K., Henkemeyer, M. and Rossant, J. (1994). fgfr-1 is required for embryonic growth and mesodermal patterning during mouse gastrulation. Genes Dev. 8, 3032-44.
69. Yasuo, H. and Satoh, N. (1994). An ascidian homolog of the mouse Brachyury (T) gene is expressed exclusively in notochord cells at the fate restricted stage. Dev. Growth Differ. 36, 9-18.