scholarly journals Sox17 is essential for proper formation of the marginal zone of extraembryonic endoderm adjacent to a developing mouse placental disk†

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 578-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitomi Igarashi ◽  
Mami Uemura ◽  
Ryuji Hiramatsu ◽  
Ryuto Hiramatsu ◽  
Saki Segami ◽  
...  

Abstract In mouse conceptus, two yolk-sac membranes, the parietal endoderm (PE) and visceral endoderm (VE), are involved in protecting and nourishing early-somite-stage embryos prior to the establishment of placental circulation. Both PE and VE membranes are tightly anchored to the marginal edge of the developing placental disk, in which the extraembryonic endoderm (marginal zone endoderm: ME) shows the typical flat epithelial morphology intermediate between those of PE and VE in vivo. However, the molecular characteristics and functions of the ME in mouse placentation remain unclear. Here, we show that SOX17, not SOX7, is continuously expressed in the ME cells, whereas both SOX17 and SOX7 are coexpressed in PE cells, by at least 10.5 days postconception. The Sox17-null conceptus, but not the Sox7-null one, showed the ectopic appearance of squamous VE-like epithelial cells in the presumptive ME region, together with reduced cell density and aberrant morphology of PE cells. Such aberrant ME formation in the Sox17-null extraembryonic endoderm was not rescued by the chimeric embryo replaced with the wild-type gut endoderm by the injection of wild-type ES cells into the Sox17-null blastocyst, suggesting the cell autonomous defects in the extraembryonic endoderm of Sox17-null concepti. These findings provide direct evidence of the crucial roles of SOX17 in proper formation and maintenance of the ME region, highlighting a novel entry point to understand the in vivo VE-to-PE transition in the marginal edge of developing placenta.

2018 ◽  
Vol 315 (4) ◽  
pp. G433-G442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kayte A. Jenkin ◽  
Peijian He ◽  
C. Chris Yun

Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) is a bioactive lipid molecule, which regulates a broad range of pathophysiological processes. Recent studies have demonstrated that LPA modulates electrolyte flux in the intestine, and its potential as an antidiarrheal agent has been suggested. Of six LPA receptors, LPA5 is highly expressed in the intestine. Recent studies by our group have demonstrated activation of Na+/H+ exchanger 3 (NHE3) by LPA5. However, much of what has been elucidated was achieved using colonic cell lines that were transfected to express LPA5. In the current study, we engineered a mouse that lacks LPA5 in intestinal epithelial cells, Lpar5ΔIEC, and investigated the role of LPA5 in NHE3 regulation and fluid absorption in vivo. The intestine of Lpar5ΔIEC mice appeared morphologically normal, and the stool frequency and fecal water content were unchanged compared with wild-type mice. Basal rates of NHE3 activity and fluid absorption and total NHE3 expression were not changed in Lpar5ΔIEC mice. However, LPA did not activate NHE3 activity or fluid absorption in Lpar5ΔIEC mice, providing direct evidence for the regulatory role of LPA5. NHE3 activation involves trafficking of NHE3 from the terminal web to microvilli, and this mobilization of NHE3 by LPA was abolished in Lpar5ΔIEC mice. Dysregulation of NHE3 was specific to LPA, and insulin and cholera toxin were able to stimulate and inhibit NHE3, respectively, in both wild-type and Lpar5ΔIEC mice. The current study for the first time demonstrates the necessity of LPA5 in LPA-mediated stimulation of NHE3 in vivo. NEW & NOTEWORTHY This study is the first to assess the role of LPA5 in NHE3 regulation and fluid absorption in vivo using a mouse that lacks LPA5 in intestinal epithelial cells, Lpar5ΔIEC. Basal rates of NHE3 activity and fluid absorption, and total NHE3 expression were not changed in Lpar5ΔIEC mice. However, LPA did not activate NHE3 activity or fluid absorption in Lpar5ΔIEC mice, providing direct evidence for the regulatory role of LPA5.


1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 813-816
Author(s):  
A Barkan ◽  
J E Mertz

The size distributions of polyribosomes containing each of three simian virus 40 late 16S mRNA species that differ in nucleotide sequence only within their leaders were determined. The two 16S RNA species with shorter leaders were incorporated into polysomes that were both larger (on average) and narrower in size distribution than was the predominant wild-type 16S RNA. Therefore, the nucleotide sequence of the leader can influence the number of ribosomes present on the body of an mRNA molecule. We propose a model in which the excision from leaders of sizeable translatable regions permits more frequent utilization of internally located translation initiation signals, thereby enabling genes encoded within the bodies of polygenic mRNAs to be translated at higher rates. In addition, the data provide the first direct evidence that VP1 can, indeed, be synthesized in vivo from the species of 16S mRNA that also encodes the 61-amino acid leader protein.


Development ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 116 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. 157-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. P. Beddington ◽  
P. Rashbass ◽  
V. Wilson

Mouse embryos that are homozygous for the Brachyury (T) deletion die at mid-gestation. They have prominent defects in the notochord, the allantois and the primitive streak. Expression of the T gene commences at the onset of gastrulation and is restricted to the primitive streak, mesoderm emerging from the streak, the head process and the notochord. Genetic evidence has suggested that there may be an increasing demand for T gene function along the rostrocaudal axis. Experiments reported here indicate that this may not be the case. Instead, the gradient in severity of the T defect may be caused by defective mesoderm cell movements, which result in a progressive accumulation of mesoderm cells near the primitive streak. Embryonic stem (ES) cells which are homozygous for the T deletion have been isolated and their differentiation in vitro and in vivo compared with that of heterozygous and wild-type ES cell lines. In +/+ ↔ T/T ES cell chimeras the Brachyury phenotype is not rescued by the presence of wild-type cells and high level chimeras show most of the features characteristic of intact T/T mutants. A few offspring from blastocysts injected with T/T ES cells have been born, several of which had greatly reduced or abnormal tails. However, little or no ES cell contribution was detectable in these animals, either as coat colour pigmentation or by isozyme analysis. Inspection of potential +/+ ↔ T/T ES cell chimeras on the 11th or 12th day of gestation, stages later than that at which intact T/T mutants die, revealed the presence of chimeras with caudal defects. These chimeras displayed a gradient of ES cell colonisation along the rostrocaudal axis with increased colonisation of caudal regions. In addition, the extent of chimerism in ectodermal tissues (which do not invaginate during gastrulation) tended to be higher than that in mesodermal tissues (which are derived from cells invaginating through the primitive streak). These results suggest that nascent mesoderm cells lacking the T gene are compromised in their ability to move away from the primitive streak. This indicates that one function of the T genemay be to regulate cell adhesion or cell motility properties in mesoderm cells. Wild-type cells in +/+ ↔ T/T chimeras appear to move normally to populate trunk and head mesoderm, suggesting that the reduced motility in T/T cells is a cell autonomous defect


Development ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-288
Author(s):  
R. L. Gardner

Conditions were found for staining whole mid-gestation capsular parietal endoderms and visceral yolk sacs for malic enzyme activity that gave excellent discrimination between wildtype (Mod-1+/Mod-1+) cells and mutant (Mod-ln/Mod-1n) cells that lack the cytoplasmic form of the enzyme. Reciprocal blastocyst injection experiments were undertaken in which single primitive endoderm cells of one genotype were transplanted into embryos of the other genotype. In addition, Mod-1+/Mod-1+ early inner cell mass (ICM) cells were injected into Mod-1n/Mod-1n blastocysts, either in groups of two or three singletons or as daughter cell pairs. A substantial proportion of the resulting conceptuses showed mosaic histochemical staining in the parietal endoderm, visceral yolk sac, or in both these membranes. Stained cells were invariably intimately intermixed with unstained cells in the mosaic parietal endoderms. In contrast, one or both of two distinct patterns of staining could be discerned in mosaic visceral yolk sacs. The first, a conspicuously ‘coherent’ pattern, was found to be due to endodermal chimaerism; the second, a more diffuse pattern, was attributable to chimaerism in the mesodermal layer of this membrane. The overall distribution of cells with donor staining characteristics resulting from primitive endoderm versus early ICM cell injections was consistent with findings in earlier experiments in which allozymes of glucosephosphate isomerase were used as markers. The conspicuous lack of phenotypically intermediate cells in predominantly stained areas of mosaic membranes suggested that the histochemical difference between Mod-1+/Mod-1+ and Mod-1n/Mod-ln genotypes was cell-autonomous. This conclusion was strengthened by the results of staining mixed in vitro cultures of parietal endoderm in which presence or absence of phagocytosed melanin granules was used as an independent means of distinguishing wild type from null cells. By substituting tetranitro blue tetrazolium for nitro blue tetrazolium in the incubation medium, satisfactory differential staining was obtained for both the extraembryonic endoderm and other tissues of earlier postimplantation wild type versus null embryos. Finally, absence of cytoplasmic malic enzyme activity does not appear to have a significant effect on the viability or behaviour of mutant cells.


Blood ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 110 (11) ◽  
pp. 2660-2660
Author(s):  
Tohru Fujiwara ◽  
Yoko Okitsu ◽  
Tsuyoshi Ikura ◽  
Shinichiro Takahashi ◽  
Kazumichi Furuyama ◽  
...  

Abstract (Introduction) During erythroid differentiation, the level of erythroid-specific genes increases synchronizing with the intracellular heme content. In addition, heme has been shown to play a role in transcription and protein synthesis. Based on these evidences, it is possible that heme widely regulates the expression of erythroid specific genes. With this hypothesis, we compared the gene expression profile between wild-type and heme-deficient erythroblasts generated from wild-type and ALAS2 (−) ES cells in in vitro, and identified 4 heme-regulated erythroid-specific genes (UCP2, CNBP, NuSAP and unknown EST1), (BBRC2006;340:105–110). Among them, unknown EST1 is consisted of 110 a.a. with a conserved acetyl-CoA binding domain, which was characteristic of GNAT (GCN5-related N-acetyltransferase) superfamily. Thus, it is likely that EST1 is a novel acetyltransferase. In the present study, we focused two genes, EST1 and NuSAP, and investigated their function during erythoid differentiation. (Methods) First, the expression and regulation of NuSAP gene during erythroid differentiation was examined. For the expression analysis, in vivo erythroblasts were fractionated according to the surface expression of TER119/CD71, and the level of expression of NuSAP mRNA was examined by quantitative RT-PCR. For the promoter analysis, the promoter region of mouse NuSAP gene was cloned, and the regulatory cis-element was determined by luciferase assay and EMSA. Next, for defining the properties of EST1, EST1 was constitutively expressed using Flag/HA tagged retroviral vector into mouse erythroleukemia (MEL) cell line, and nuclear extract of EST1-expessed MEL cells was purified by affinity chromatography, which was loaded on an SDS/PAGE gel and subjected to electrophoresis. In addition, for in vitro histone acetyltransferase (HAT) assay, free histone and purified EST1 protein were incubated with [3H]acetyl-CoA, and acetyltransferase activity was measured by scintigraphy. (Results) (1) NuSAP mRNA was more significantly abundant in the subset corresponding to immature erythroblasts (TER119+CD71high) than mature erythroblasts (TER119+CD71low), and it was significantly increased in TER119+ cells from in vivo phlebotomized mice compared with control mice. Furthermore, during erythroid maturation of MEL cells by dimethylsulfoxide, NuSAP mRNA was increased at 24–72 hrs. Promoter analyses of NuSAP gene demonstrated that duplicated CCAAT boxes located at −81/−85 and −30/−34 were essential for promoter activity, which was trans-activated by NF-YA. These results suggested that NuSAP might contribute to the expansion of immature erythroblast pool under the control of NF-Y. (2) By the gel electrophoresis, it was revealed that EST1 protein forms a multimeric protein complex. Furthermore, whereas recombinant EST1 protein did not show HAT activity, EST1 complex could acetylate free histones in vitro, suggesting that EST1 might be a component of HAT complex. (Conclusion) The novel functions of EST1 and NuSAP suggest that heme regulates erythroid differentiation by controlling the expression of variety of genes.


Blood ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 112 (11) ◽  
pp. 2448-2448
Author(s):  
Lan Zhou ◽  
Quanjian Yan ◽  
David Yao ◽  
Lebing W Li ◽  
Stanton L. Gerson ◽  
...  

Abstract Notch receptors are conserved cell surface molecules essential for hematopoietic cell fate determination. Activated Notch enhances self-renewal of hematopoietic stem cells and promotes T lymphopoiesis. O-linked fucose moieties attached to the EGF domains of Notch receptors and its modification by Fringe can strongly modulate Notch signaling. Our recently published results indicate that Notch-dependent signaling controls myelopoiesis both in vitro and in vivo, and identify a requirement for Notch fucosylation in the expression of Notch ligand binding activity and Notch signaling efficiency in hematopoietic progenitor cells. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that fucosylation controlled Notch signaling regulates hematopoietic lineage homeostasis. Genetically-modified mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells deficient in Notch1 receptor (NOTCH1−/−) or pofut1 (POFUT1−/−) that controls O-fucose modification of Notch receptor EGF repeats are studied in an in vitro co-culture assay with Notch ligand-expressing OP9 cells. Activation of Notch in wild type ES cells promotes T lymphopoiesis, while exposure of NOTCH1−/− or POFUT1−/− ES cells to Notch ligand failed to generate T lymphocytes but sustained granulocytic production. When probed with recombinant Notch ligand Dll1 or Dll4, hematopoietic cells derived from wild type ES line displayed robust Notch ligand binding, but cells from NOTCH1−/− or POFUT1−/− ES lines showed completely absent or reduced Notch ligand interaction, respectively. In comparison, ES cells deficient in pofut2 (POFUT2−/−) that controls O-fucose modification on thrombospondin repeats (TSR) displayed a wild type lineage development phenotype and normal Notch ligand binding ability. When examined for their in vivo hematopoietic reconstitution, blood cells derived from NOTCH1−/− or POFUT1−/− ES lines, but not POFUT2−/− ES line, showed enhanced granulocytic but suppressed T and B lymphoid lineage development. These results are consistent with our bone marrow transplantation findings that hematopoietic reconstitution by fucosylation-deficient marrow progenitor cells exhibited increased granulocytopoiesis while wild type or fucosylation-intact marrow cells have normal lineage distribution. Our observations indicate that Notch signaling maintains blood lineage homeostasis by promoting lymphoid lineage development and suppressing overt myeloid development. O-fucose modification of EGF repeats on Notch receptor is essential for this Notch-dependent control of blood lineage homeostasis as deficiency of fucose on Notch receptor results in enhanced myeloid development.


2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (22) ◽  
pp. 8233-8245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Ninkina ◽  
Katerina Papachroni ◽  
Darren C. Robertson ◽  
Oliver Schmidt ◽  
Liz Delaney ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Homologous recombination in ES cells was employed to generate mice with targeted deletion of the first three exons of the γ-synuclein gene. Complete inactivation of gene expression in null mutant mice was confirmed on the mRNA and protein levels. Null mutant mice are viable, are fertile, and do not display evident phenotypical abnormalities. The effects of γ-synuclein deficiency on motor and peripheral sensory neurons were studied by various methods in vivo and in vitro. These two types of neurons were selected because they both express high levels of γ-synuclein from the early stages of mouse embryonic development but later in the development they display different patterns of intracellular compartmentalization of the protein. We found no difference in the number of neurons between wild-type and null mutant animals in several brain stem motor nuclei, in lumbar dorsal root ganglia, and in the trigeminal ganglion. The survival of γ-synuclein-deficient trigeminal neurons in various culture conditions was not different from that of wild-type neurons. There was no difference in the numbers of myelinated and nonmyelinated fibers in the saphenous nerves of these animals, and sensory reflex thresholds were also intact in γ-synuclein null mutant mice. Nerve injury led to similar changes in sensory function in wild-type and mutant mice. Taken together, our data suggest that like α-synuclein, γ-synuclein is dispensable for the development and function of the nervous system.


2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (21) ◽  
pp. 8178-8184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yie Liu ◽  
Bryan E. Snow ◽  
M. Prakash Hande ◽  
Gabriela Baerlocher ◽  
Valerie A. Kickhoefer ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT TEP1 is a mammalian telomerase-associated protein with similarity to the Tetrahymena telomerase protein p80. Like p80, TEP1 is associated with telomerase activity and the telomerase reverse transcriptase, and it specifically interacts with the telomerase RNA. To determine the role of mTep1 in telomerase function in vivo, we generated mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells and mice lacking mTep1. ThemTep1-deficient (mTep1 −/−) mice were viable and were bred for seven successive generations with no obvious phenotypic abnormalities. All murine tissues frommTep1 −/− mice possessed a level of telomerase activity comparable to that in wild-type mice. In addition, analysis of several tissues that normally lack telomerase activity revealed no reactivation of telomerase activity in mTep1 −/− mice. Telomere length, even in later generations ofmTep1 −/− mice, was equivalent to that in wild-type animals. ES cells deficient in mTep1 also showed no detectable alteration in telomerase activity or telomere length with increased passage in culture. Thus, mTep1 appears to be completely dispensable for telomerase function in vivo. Recently, TEP1 has been identified within a second ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex, the vault particle. TEP1 can also specifically bind to a small RNA, vRNA, which is associated with the vault particle and is unrelated in sequence to mammalian telomerase RNA. These results reveal that TEP1 is an RNA binding protein that is not restricted to the telomerase complex and that TEP1 plays a redundant role in the assembly or localization of the telomerase RNP in vivo.


1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 813-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Barkan ◽  
J E Mertz

The size distributions of polyribosomes containing each of three simian virus 40 late 16S mRNA species that differ in nucleotide sequence only within their leaders were determined. The two 16S RNA species with shorter leaders were incorporated into polysomes that were both larger (on average) and narrower in size distribution than was the predominant wild-type 16S RNA. Therefore, the nucleotide sequence of the leader can influence the number of ribosomes present on the body of an mRNA molecule. We propose a model in which the excision from leaders of sizeable translatable regions permits more frequent utilization of internally located translation initiation signals, thereby enabling genes encoded within the bodies of polygenic mRNAs to be translated at higher rates. In addition, the data provide the first direct evidence that VP1 can, indeed, be synthesized in vivo from the species of 16S mRNA that also encodes the 61-amino acid leader protein.


Blood ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 1188-1193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hideo Harigae ◽  
Osamu Nakajima ◽  
Naruyoshi Suwabe ◽  
Hisayuki Yokoyama ◽  
Kazumichi Furuyama ◽  
...  

Abstract Alas2 encodes the erythroid-specific δ-aminolevulinate synthase (ALAS2 or ALAS-E), the first enzyme in heme biosynthesis in erythroid cells. Mice with theAlas2-null phenotype showed massive cytoplasmic, but not mitochondrial, iron accumulation in their primitive erythroblasts. Because these animals died by day 11.5 in utero, studies of iron metabolism in definitive erythroblasts were not possible using the in vivo model. In this study, embryonic stem (ES) cells lacking theAlas2 gene were induced to undergo differentiation to the definitive erythroblast stage in culture, and the phenotype ofAlas2-null definitive erythroblasts was examined.Alas2-null definitive erythroblasts cell pellets were entirely colorless due to a marked deficiency of heme, although their cell morphology was similar to that of the wild-type erythroblasts. The level of expression of erythroid-specific genes inAlas2-null definitive erythroblasts was also similar to that of the wild-type erythroblasts. These findings indicate thatAlas2-null definitive erythroblasts developed to a stage similar to that of the wild-type erythroblasts, which were also shown to be very similar to the bone marrow erythroblasts in vivo. In contrast, Alas2-null definitive erythroblasts contained 15 times more nonheme iron than did the wild-type erythroblasts, and electron microscopy found this iron to be distributed in the cytoplasm but not in mitochondria. Consistent with the aberrant increase in iron,Alas2-null definitive erythroblasts were more peroxidized than wild-type erythroblasts. These findings suggest that ALAS2 deficiency itself does not interfere with the development of definitive erythroid cells, but it results in a profound iron accumulation and a peroxidized state in erythroblasts.


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