Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2000

Publication Title

Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volume

79

First Page

113

Keywords

adenine nucleotide translocase, Xenopus, retinoic acid, pattern formation, gastrulation

Last Page

121

Abstract

We report the isolation and characterization of the Xenopus homolog to human T1 ANT (adenine nucleotide translocase) The 1290 nucleotide sequence contains initiation and termination signals, and encodes a conceptual protein of 298 amino acids. The sequence shares high amino acid identity with the mammalian adenine translocases. The transcript is present in unfertilized eggs, and it is expressed at higher levels during formation of the antero-posterior dorsal axis in embryos. Although low levels are expressed constitutively except in endodermal cells, ANT expression is dynamically regulated during neurulation. At this stage expression in ectoderm rapidly diminishes as the neural folds form, and then ANT expression increases slightly in mesoderm. At the culmination of neurulation, the neural tube briefly expresses ANT, and thereafter its expression predominates in the somitic mesoderm and also the chordoneural hinge. In addition, ANT expression is particularly high in the prosencephalon, the mesencephalon, the branchial arches, eye, and the otic vesicle. Treatment of embryos with retinoic acid has the effect of diminishing constitutive expression of ANT, but microinjection studies demonstrate that immediate and local repression cannot be induced in dorsal structures.

DOI

10.1139/o00-096

Comments

First published in Biochemistry and Cell Biology here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/o00-096

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