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Wakabayashi Y, Shimono A, Terauchi Y, Zeng C, Hamada M, Semba K, Watanabe S, Ishikawa K. Identification of a novel RNA transcript TISPL upregulated by stressors that stimulate ATF4. Gene 2024; 917:148464. [PMID: 38615981 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2024.148464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2024] [Revised: 04/02/2024] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
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Cells sense, respond, and adapt to environmental conditions that cause stress. In a previous study using HeLa cells, we isolated reporter cells responding to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress inducers, thapsigargin and tunicamycin, using a highly sensitive promoter trap vector system. Splinkerette PCR and 5' rapid amplification of cDNA ends (5' RACE) identified a novel transcript that is upregulated by ER stress. Its endogenous expression increased approximately 10-fold in response to thapsigargin and tunicamycin within 1 h, but was down-regulated after 4 h. Because the transcript starts from an intron of a long noncoding RNA known as LINC-PINT, we designated the newly identified transcript TISPL (transcript induced by stressors from LINC-PINTlocus). TISPL was also expressed under several other stress conditions. It was particularly increased > 10-fold upon glucose starvation and 7-fold by arsenite exposure. Furthermore, in silico analyses, including a ChIP-atlas search, revealed that there is an ATF4-binding region with a c/ebp-Atf response element (CARE) downstream of the transcription start site of TISPL. Based on these results, we hypothesized that TISPL may be induced by the phospho-eIF2α and ATF4- axis of the integrated stress response pathway, which is known to be activated by the stress conditions listed above. As expected, knockout of ATF4 abolished the stress-induced upregulation of TISPL. Our results indicate that TISPL may be a useful biomarker for detecting stress conditions that activate ATF4. Our highly sensitive trap vector system proved beneficial in discovering new biomarkers.
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- Yutaro Wakabayashi
- Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 2-2 Wakamatsu-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8480, Japan; Computational Bio Big-Data Open Innovation Laboratory (CBBD-OIL), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 2-2 Wakamatsu-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8480, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 2-2 Wakamatsu-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8480, Japan
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- Computational Bio Big-Data Open Innovation Laboratory (CBBD-OIL), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan; Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Computational Bio Big-Data Open Innovation Laboratory (CBBD-OIL), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan; Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan; Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8602, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 2-2 Wakamatsu-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8480, Japan; Translational Research Center, Fukushima Medical University, 1 Hikarigaoka, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan
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- Translational Research Center, Fukushima Medical University, 1 Hikarigaoka, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan
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- Japan Biological Informatics Consortium (JBiC), 2-4-32 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8073, Japan.
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Jimenez JL, Canagaratna MR, Donahue NM, Prevot ASH, Zhang Q, Kroll JH, DeCarlo PF, Allan JD, Coe H, Ng NL, Aiken AC, Docherty KS, Ulbrich IM, Grieshop AP, Robinson AL, Duplissy J, Smith JD, Wilson KR, Lanz VA, Hueglin C, Sun YL, Tian J, Laaksonen A, Raatikainen T, Rautiainen J, Vaattovaara P, Ehn M, Kulmala M, Tomlinson JM, Collins DR, Cubison MJ, Dunlea EJ, Huffman JA, Onasch TB, Alfarra MR, Williams PI, Bower K, Kondo Y, Schneider J, Drewnick F, Borrmann S, Weimer S, Demerjian K, Salcedo D, Cottrell L, Griffin R, Takami A, Miyoshi T, Hatakeyama S, Shimono A, Sun JY, Zhang YM, Dzepina K, Kimmel JR, Sueper D, Jayne JT, Herndon SC, Trimborn AM, Williams LR, Wood EC, Middlebrook AM, Kolb CE, Baltensperger U, Worsnop DR. Evolution of Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere. Science 2009; 326:1525-9. [PMID: 20007897 DOI: 10.1126/science.1180353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1053] [Impact Index Per Article: 70.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- J L Jimenez
- Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
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Shimono A, Ueno S, Gu S, Zhao X, Tsumura Y, Tang Y. Range shifts of Potentilla fruticosa on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau during glacial and interglacial periods revealed by chloroplast DNA sequence variation. Heredity (Edinb) 2009; 104:534-42. [DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2009.158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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- A Shimono
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
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Meno C, Gritsman K, Ohishi S, Ohfuji Y, Heckscher E, Mochida K, Shimono A, Kondoh H, Talbot WS, Robertson EJ, Schier AF, Hamada H. Mouse Lefty2 and zebrafish antivin are feedback inhibitors of nodal signaling during vertebrate gastrulation. Mol Cell 1999; 4:287-98. [PMID: 10518210 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(00)80331-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 318] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Mammalian lefty and zebrafish antivin form a subgroup of the TGF beta superfamily. We report that mouse mutants for lefty2 have an expanded primitive streak and form excess mesoderm, a phenotype opposite to that of mutants for the TGF beta gene nodal. Analogously, overexpression of Antivin or Lefty2 in zebrafish embryos blocks head and trunk mesoderm formation, a phenotype identical to that of mutants caused by loss of Nodal signaling. The lefty2 mutant phenotype is partially suppressed by heterozygosity for nodal. Similarly, the effects of Antivin and Lefty2 can be suppressed by overexpression of the nodal-related genes cyclops and squint or the extracellular domain of ActRIIB. Expression of antivin is dependent on Nodal signaling, revealing a feedback loop wherein Nodal signals induce their antagonists Lefty2 and Antivin to restrict Nodal signaling during gastrulation.
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- C Meno
- Division of Molecular Biology, Osaka University, Japan
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The anterior mesendoderm of mid- to late primitive streak stage mouse embryos has the ability to induce anterior neuroectodermal fate in naive epiblast [S.-L. Ang and J. Rossant (1993) Development 118, 139-149]. A number of genes have been found to be expressed in this tissue, notably the transcription factor Lim1. Lim1-null mice have anterior mesendoderm defects that result in a lack of head formation. Thus, the anterior mesendoderm of gastrula stage mouse embryos should express Lim1-regulated genes that are essential for head development. To identify Lim1-regulated genes, a differential screen with subtraction was developed, using cDNA pools that were amplified from the anterior mesendoderm of single wild-type and Lim1-null gastrula stage embryos. This novel screen strategy has yielded 22 cDNAs that show differential expression between anterior mesendoderm cells of wild-type and Lim1-null embryos. The expression of one novel cDNA SII6 initially colocalizes with Lim1 in the anterior mesendoderm of gastrula stage embryos. Moreover, SII6 expression is undetectable in the anterior mesendoderm of Lim1-null embryos. This screen identifies a set of putative Lim1 target genes that may have important roles in vertebrate head formation. Furthermore, this differential screen strategy should provide a broadly applicable approach to identify differences in gene expression between embryonic tissues of limiting quantity.
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- A Shimono
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA
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Shimono A, Okuda T, Kondoh H. N-myc-dependent repression of ndr1, a gene identified by direct subtraction of whole mouse embryo cDNAs between wild type and N-myc mutant. Mech Dev 1999; 83:39-52. [PMID: 10381566 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4773(99)00025-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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To identify genes regulated by N-myc, subtraction of whole embryo cDNA was carried out between wild type and N-myc-deficient mutant mice. Six cDNA clones were isolated as representing genes expressed higher in the mutant embryos and two as those expressed lower. One of them, Ndr1, coding for 43 kDa cytoplasmic protein was studied in detail. The Ndr1 gene was augmented 20-fold in the mutant embryos at 10.5 days post coitus which is indicative of repression by N-myc. An inverse relationship actually existed between the expression of N-myc and Ndr1 in various developing tissues of the wild type embryos. In the early stage of differentiation of these tissues when N-myc expression was high Ndr1 expression was low or undetectable, and later when N-myc activity diminished Ndr1 expression was augmented concomitantly with the occurrence of terminal differentiation. To establish the direct link between N-myc activity and the Ndr1 regulation, the Ndr1 gene was cloned and analyzed. The Ndr1 promoter activity was down-regulated by N-myc, and more strongly by the combination of N-myc and Max in the cotransfection assay. This repressive effect was mediated by the promoter region within 52 base pairs from the transcription start site but direct binding of N-myc:Max to the promoter sequence was not demonstrated, which is analogous to the cases recently reported for transcriptional repression by c-myc. c-myc also repressed Ndr1 promoter activity similarly to N-myc. The effect of N-myc:Max was sensitive to Trichostatin A, indicating involvement of histone deacetylase activity in repression of the Ndr1 promoter. The strategy we adopted in identifying target genes of a transcription factor should prove widely applicable when mutant animals are available.
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- A Shimono
- Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Osaka University, 1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan
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Meno C, Shimono A, Saijoh Y, Yashiro K, Mochida K, Ohishi S, Noji S, Kondoh H, Hamada H. lefty-1 is required for left-right determination as a regulator of lefty-2 and nodal. Cell 1998; 94:287-97. [PMID: 9708731 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)81472-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 437] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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lefty-1, lefty-2, and nodal are expressed on the left side of developing mouse embryos and are implicated in left-right (L-R) determination. The role of lefty-1 was examined by analyzing mutant mice lacking this gene. The lefty-1-deficient mice showed a variety of L-R positional defects in visceral organs. Unexpectedly, however, the most common feature of lefty-1-/- mice was thoracic left isomerism (rather than right isomerism). The lack of lefty-1 resulted in bilateral expression of nodal, lefty-2, and Pitx2 (a homeobox gene normally expressed on the left side). These observations suggest that the role of lefty-1 is to restrict the expression of lefty-2 and nodal to the left side, and that lefty-2 or nodal encodes a signal for "leftness."
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- C Meno
- Division of Molecular Biology, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
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Kitsukawa T, Shimono A, Kawakami A, Kondoh H, Fujisawa H. Overexpression of a membrane protein, neuropilin, in chimeric mice causes anomalies in the cardiovascular system, nervous system and limbs. Development 1995; 121:4309-18. [PMID: 8575331 DOI: 10.1242/dev.121.12.4309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 283] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Neuropilin is a type 1 membrane protein, which is highly conserved among Xenopus frog, chicken and mouse. The extracellular part of the neuropilin protein is composed of three unique domains, each of which is thought to be involved in molecular and/or cellular interactions. In mice, neuropilin is expressed in the cardiovascular system, nervous system and limbs at particular developmental stages. To clarify the roles of neuropilin in morphogenesis in vivo, we generated mouse embryonic stem (ES) cell clones that constitutively expressed exogenous neuropilin, then produced chimeras using these ES cell clones. The chimeras overexpressed neuropilin and were embryonic lethal. The chimeric embryos exhibited several morphological abnormalities; excess capillaries and blood vessels, dilation of blood vessels, malformed hearts, ectopic sprouting and defasciculation of nerve fibers, and extra digits. All of these abnormalities occurred in the organs in which neuropilin is expressed in normal development. The variety of abnormalities occurring in these chimeric embryos suggested diverse functions of neuropilin in embryonic morphogenesis, which may be ascribed to multiple interaction domains identified in the molecule. Correct spatiotemporal expression of neuropilin seems to be essential for normal development of the cardiovascular system, nervous system and limbs.
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- T Kitsukawa
- Department of Molecular Biology, School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan
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Kamada S, Shimono A, Shinto Y, Tsujimura T, Takahashi T, Noda T, Kitamura Y, Kondoh H, Tsujimoto Y. bcl-2 deficiency in mice leads to pleiotropic abnormalities: accelerated lymphoid cell death in thymus and spleen, polycystic kidney, hair hypopigmentation, and distorted small intestine. Cancer Res 1995; 55:354-9. [PMID: 7812968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Transgenic mice homozygously lacking in the bcl-2 gene were generated using homologous recombination in embryonal stem cells. The complete absence of Bcl-2 alpha and -beta proteins did not interfere with normal embryonic development. Abnormalities became evident after birth, although the severity varied among homozygous null mice, bcl-2-/- mice displayed pleiotropic abnormalities similar to those in the previously described bcl-2-/- mice, including growth retardation, smaller ears, short lives, polycystic kidney, atrophic thymus and spleen with accelerated apoptotic cell death of lymphocytes, and hair hypopigmentation in the second hair follicle cycle. Our bcl-2-/- mice also revealed novel defects in the small intestine, characterized by retarded development, accelerated exfoliation of epithelial cells, and very few mitotic progenitor cells.
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- S Kamada
- Department of Medical Genetics, Biomedical Research Center, Osaka University Medical School, Yamadaoka, Japan
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Shimofuruya H, Mizutani T, Shimono A, Nakamura M, Suzuki J. Determination of pyrimidine nucleoside diphosphates by use of combined reactions of pyruvate kinase and lactate dehydrogenase. Biochem Mol Biol Int 1993; 31:463-8. [PMID: 8118421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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ADP is known to be easily determined spectrophotometrically after it is utilized to produce the corresponding amount of NAD by combined reactions of pyruvate kinase and lactate dehydrogenase. We studied whether CDP and UDP can be also determined in a similar manner if they were incubated for a longer period with an increased amount of pyruvate kinase. It was shown that CDP and UDP could be utilized to produce the corresponding amount of NADH oxidized after an incubation of at least 25 min and that 0 to 300 nmols of these nucleotides were able to be determined spectrophotometrically.
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- H Shimofuruya
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzuka College of Technology, Mie, Japan
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Sawai S, Shimono A, Wakamatsu Y, Palmes C, Hanaoka K, Kondoh H. Defects of embryonic organogenesis resulting from targeted disruption of the N-myc gene in the mouse. Development 1993; 117:1445-55. [PMID: 8404543 DOI: 10.1242/dev.117.4.1445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The highest expression of the N-myc gene occurs during embryonic organogenesis in the mouse ontogeny, with the peak of expression around embryonic day 9.5. Homozygous N-myc-deficient mice, produced by germline transmission of a disrupted allele in ES cells, developed normally to day 10.5, indicating dispensability of N-myc expression in the earlier period, but later accumulated organogenic abnormalities and died around day 11.5. The most notable abnormalities were found in the limb bud, visceral organs (lung, stomach, liver and heart) and the central/peripheral nervous systems, and were highly correlated with the site of N-myc expression. The limb buds and the lungs excised from N-myc-deficient mutant embryos were placed in culture to allow their development to stages beyond the point of death of the embryos. Analyses indicated that the mutant limbs failed to develop distal structures and the development of bronchi from the trachea was defective in the lungs. The latter defect was largely corrected by addition of fetal calf serum to the culture medium, suggesting that an activity missing in the mutant lung was replenished by a component of the serum. The phenotype of N-myc-deficient mutant embryos indicated requirement of the N-myc function in many instances of tissue interactions in organogenesis and also in cell-autonomous regulation of tissue maturation.
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- S Sawai
- Department of Molecular Biology, School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan
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N-myc is a developmentally regulated proto-oncogene encoding a putative sequence-specific DNA-binding protein. Previous studies on tissue distribution of N-myc transcripts indicated that one of the major sites of N-myc expression is the CNS and neural crest derivatives in developing embryos. We investigated N-Myc protein expression in embryonic neural tissues and found that the protein was usually localized in the nucleus, but accumulated in the cytoplasm upon differentiation of specific classes of neurons, e.g., retinal ganglion cells, neurons of spinal ganglia, and Purkinje cells of the cerebellum. The change of localization of N-Myc from the nucleus to the cytoplasm indicates a novel feature of regulation of myc family proteins and suggests functions of N-myc in the cytoplasm of maturing neurons.
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- Y Wakamatsu
- Department of Molecular Biology School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan
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Sawai S, Shimono A, Hanaoka K, Kondoh H. Embryonic lethality resulting from disruption of both N-myc alleles in mouse zygotes. New Biol 1991; 3:861-9. [PMID: 1931830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The N-myc gene is considered to play a major regulatory role in embryogenesis of the mouse because of its high expression in the organogenesis period and its encoding of nuclear proteins with DNA binding motifs. To elucidate the putative regulatory function of N-myc in embryogenesis, we undertook to inactivate this gene in ES cells. The N-myc alleles were disrupted in ES cells, line E14, by means of homologous recombination of targeting vectors that carry neomycin or hygromycin resistant genes. Homologous recombinants were obtained at the frequency of one in 6 x 10(5) electroporated cells. The inactivated N-myc alleles were transmitted through mouse germ lines. Crosses of heterozygous mice resulted in production of wild-type, heterozygous, and N-myc-null pups and fetuses at a ratio of 1:2:0, indicating embryonic lethality of the homozygotes. ES cells totally deficient in N-myc expression were also obtained by consecutive gene disruption with the use of the targeting vectors, demonstrating the non-essentiality of N-myc expression in the stem-cell state. N-myc-null ES cells offer a valuable tool in chimera analysis to elucidate the requirement for N-myc function in embryogenesis.
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- S Sawai
- Department of Molecular Biology, School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan
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