Aberrant Homeobox Gene Expression in Mammary Tumorigenesis

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine J. Gudas
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Mammary Tumorigenesis ◽  
Homeobox Gene

Pax-6 homeobox gene expression in regenerating retina of the adult newt

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. S315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuko Kaneko ◽  
Gen Matsumoto ◽  
Yoshiro Hanyu
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Homeobox Gene ◽  
Adult Newt

scholarly journals FgHtf1 Regulates Global Gene Expression towards Aerial Mycelium and Conidiophore Formation in the Cereal Fungal Pathogen Fusarium graminearum

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaili Fan ◽  
Huawei Zheng ◽  
Kai Zhang ◽  
Veena Devi Ganeshan ◽  
Stephen Obol Opiyo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Transcription Factors ◽  
Gene Family ◽  
Fusarium Graminearum ◽  
Target Genes ◽  
Homeobox Gene ◽  
Global Gene Expression ◽  
Binding Motifs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Aerial Growth

ABSTRACT The homeobox gene family of transcription factors (HTF) controls many developmental pathways and physiological processes in eukaryotes. We previously showed that a conserved HTF in the plant-pathogenic fungus Fusarium graminearum, Htf1 (FgHtf1), regulates conidium morphology in that organism. This study investigated the mechanism of FgHtf1-mediated regulation and identified putative FgHtf1 target genes by a chromatin immunoprecipitation assay combined with parallel DNA sequencing (ChIP-seq) and RNA sequencing. A total of 186 potential binding peaks, including 142 genes directly regulated by FgHtf1, were identified. Subsequent motif prediction analysis identified two DNA-binding motifs, TAAT and CTTGT. Among the FgHtf1 target genes were FgHTF1 itself and several important conidiation-related genes (e.g., FgCON7), the chitin synthase pathway genes, and the aurofusarin biosynthetic pathway genes. In addition, FgHtf1 may regulate the cAMP-protein kinase A (PKA)-Msn2/4 and Ca2+-calcineurin-Crz1 pathways. Taken together, these results suggest that, in addition to autoregulation, FgHtf1 also controls global gene expression and promotes a shift to aerial growth and conidiation in F. graminearum by activation of FgCON7 or other conidiation-related genes. IMPORTANCE The homeobox gene family of transcription factors is known to be involved in the development and conidiation of filamentous fungi. However, the regulatory mechanisms and downstream targets of homeobox genes remain unclear. FgHtf1 is a homeobox transcription factor that is required for phialide development and conidiogenesis in the plant pathogen F. graminearum. In this study, we identified FgHtf1-controlled target genes and binding motifs. We found that, besides autoregulation, FgHtf1 also controls global gene expression and promotes conidiation in F. graminearum by activation of genes necessary for aerial growth, FgCON7, and other conidiation-related genes.

REST is a key regulator in brain-specific homeobox gene expression during neuronal differentiation

2007 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 071018045431010-??? ◽  
Author(s):  
So Yun Park ◽  
Jae Bum Kim ◽  
Yong-Mahn Han
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Neuronal Differentiation ◽  
Homeobox Gene

A regulatory region from the mouse Hox-2.2 promoter directs gene expression into developing limbs

Development ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 807-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Schughart ◽  
C.J. Bieberich ◽  
R. Eid ◽  
F.H. Ruddle
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Transgenic Mouse ◽  
Reporter Gene ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Regulatory Region ◽  
Homeobox Gene ◽  
Regulatory Elements ◽  
Body Region ◽  
Lacz Gene ◽  
Mouse Lines

To characterize cis-acting regulatory elements of the murine homeobox gene, Hox-2.2, transgenic mouse lines were generated that contained the LacZ reporter gene under the control of different fragments from the presumptive Hox-2.2 promoter. A promoter region of 3600 base pairs (bp) was identified, which reproducibly directed reporter gene expression into specific regions of developing mouse embryos. At 8.5 days postcoitum (p.c.) reporter gene activity was detected in posterior regions of the lateral mesoderm and, in subsequent developmental stages, expression of the LacZ gene was restricted to specific regions of the developing limb buds and the mesenchyme of the ventrolateral body region. This pattern of Hox-2.2-LacZ expression was found in all transgenic embryos that have been generated with the 3.6 kb promoter fragment (two founder embryos and embryos from five transgenic lines). In addition, embryos from two transgenic mouse lines expressed the reporter gene at low levels in the developing central nervous system (CNS). Our results are consistent with the idea that in addition to their presumptive role in CNS and vertebrae development, Hox-2.2 gene products are involved in controlling pattern formation in developing limbs.

CARP, a cardiac ankyrin repeat protein, is downstream in the Nkx2-5 homeobox gene pathway

Development ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 124 (4) ◽  
pp. 793-804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Zou ◽  
S. Evans ◽  
J. Chen ◽  
H.C. Kuo ◽  
R.P. Harvey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Cardiac Myocytes ◽  
Light Chain ◽  
Myosin Light Chain ◽  
Homeobox Gene ◽  
Ankyrin Repeat ◽  
Repeat Protein ◽  
Ankyrin Repeat Protein ◽  
Myosin Light Chain 2 ◽  
Cardiac Ankyrin Repeat Protein

To identify the molecular pathways that guide cardiac ventricular chamber specification, maturation and morphogenesis, we have sought to characterize factors that regulate the expression of the ventricular myosin light chain-2 gene, one of the earliest markers of ventricular regionalization during mammalian cardiogenesis. Previously, our laboratory identified a 28 bp HF-la/MEF-2 element in the MLC-2v promoter region, which confers cardiac ventricular chamber-specific gene expression during murine cardiogenesis, and showed that the ubiquitous transcription factor YB-1 binds to the HF-la site in conjunction with a co-factor. In a search for interacting co-factors, a nuclear ankyrin-like repeat protein CARP (cardiac ankyrin repeat protein) was isolated from a rat neonatal heart cDNA library by yeast two-hybrid screening, using YB-1 as the bait. Co-immunoprecipitation and GST-CARP pulldown studies reveal that CARP forms a physical complex with YB-1 in cardiac myocytes and immunostaining shows that endogenous CARP is localized in the cardiac myocyte nucleus. Co-transfection assays indicate that CARP can negatively regulate an HF-1-TK minimal promoter in an HF-1 sequence-dependent manner in cardiac myocytes, and CARP displays a transcriptional inhibitory activity when fused to a GAL4 DNA-binding domain in both cardiac and noncardiac cell context. Northern analysis revealed that carp mRNA is highly enriched in the adult heart, with only trace levels in skeletal muscle. During murine embryogenesis, endogenous carp expression was first clearly detected as early as E8.5 specifically in heart and is regulated temporally and spatially in the myocardium. Nkx2-5, the murine homologue of Drosophila gene tinman was previously shown to be required for heart tube looping morphogenesis and ventricular chamber-specific myosin light chain-2 expression during mammalian heart development. In Nkx2-5(−/−)embryos, carp expression was found to be significantly and selectively reduced as assessed by both whole-mount in situ hybridizations and RNase protection assays, suggesting that carp is downstream of the homeobox gene Nkx2-5 in the cardiac regulatory network. Co-transfection assays using a dominant negative mutant Nkx2-5 construct with CARP promoter-luciferase reporter constructs in cardiac myocytes confirms that Nkx2-5 either directly or indirectly regulates carp at the transcriptional level. Finally, a carp promoter-lacZ transgene, which displays cardiac-specific expression in wild-type and Nkx2-5(+/−) background, was also significantly reduced in Nkx2-5(−/−) embryos, indicating that Nkx2-5 either directly or indirectly regulates carp promoter activity during in vivo cardiogenesis as well as in cultured cardiac myocytes. Thus, CARP is a YB-1 associated factor and represents the first identified cardiac-restricted downstream regulatory gene in the homeobox gene Nkx2-5 pathway and may serve as a negative regulator of HF-1-dependent pathways for ventricular muscle gene expression.

Evolutionary developmental biology of the tetrapod limb

Development ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 1994 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. 163-168
Author(s):  
J. Richard Hinchliffe
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Developmental Biology ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Homeobox Gene ◽  
Evolutionary Developmental Biology ◽  
Epigenetic Factors ◽  
Limb Buds ◽  
Developmental Mechanisms ◽  
Direct Gene ◽  
Embryological Analysis

New insights into the origin of the tetrapod limb, and its early development and patterning, are emerging from a variety of fields. A wide diversity of approaches was reported at the BSDB Spring Symposium on `The Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms' (Edinburgh, 1994); here I review the contributions these various approaches have made to understanding the evolutionary developmental biology of the tetrapod limb. The fields covered included palaeontology, descriptive embryology, experimental embryological analysis of interactions within developing limbs plus description and manipulation of homeobox gene expression in early limb buds. Concepts are equally varied, sometimes conflicting, sometimes overlapping. Some concern the limb `archetype' (can the palaeontologists and morphologists still define this with precision? how far is there a limb developmental bauplan?); others are based on identification of epigenetic factors (eg secondary inductions), as generating pattern; while yet others assume a direct gene-morphology relationship. But all the contributors ask the same compelling question: can we explain both the similarity (homology) and variety of tetrapod limbs (and the fins of the Crossopterygians) in terms of developmental mechanisms?

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