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Dev Biol ; 313(1): 307-19, 2008 Jan 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18031719

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The formation of the nervous system is initiated when ectodermal cells adopt the neural fate. Studies in Xenopus demonstrate that inhibition of BMP results in the formation of neural tissue. However, the molecular mechanism driving the expression of early neural genes in response to this inhibition is unknown. Moreover, controversy remains regarding the sufficiency of BMP inhibition for neural induction. To address these questions, we performed a detailed analysis of the regulation of the soxB1 gene, sox3, one of the earliest genes expressed in the neuroectoderm. Using ectodermal explant assays, we analyzed the role of BMP, Wnt and FGF signaling in the regulation of sox3 and the closely related soxB1 gene, sox2. Our results demonstrate that both sox3 and sox2 are induced in response to BMP antagonism, but by distinct mechanisms and that the activation of both genes is independent of FGF signaling. However, both require FGF for the maintenance of their expression. Finally, sox3 genomic elements were identified and characterized and an element required for BMP-mediated repression via Vent proteins was identified through the use of transgenesis and computational analysis. Interestingly, none of the elements required for sox3 expression were identified in the sox2 locus. Together our data indicate that two closely related genes have unique mechanisms of gene regulation at the onset of neural development.


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Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/metabolismo , Proteínas de Grupo de Alta Mobilidade/metabolismo , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/metabolismo , Placa Neural/embriologia , Transdução de Sinais , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo , Proteínas de Xenopus/metabolismo , Animais , Sequência de Bases , Proteínas Morfogenéticas Ósseas/metabolismo , Proteínas de Transporte/metabolismo , Embrião não Mamífero/metabolismo , Fatores de Crescimento de Fibroblastos/metabolismo , Proteínas HMGB/metabolismo , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Placa Neural/metabolismo , Biossíntese de Proteínas , Fatores de Transcrição SOXB1 , Xenopus laevis/embriologia , Xenopus laevis/metabolismo
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