scholarly journals Microtubules mediate the localization of bicoid RNA during Drosophila oogenesis

Development ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.J. Pokrywka ◽  
E.C. Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Messenger Rna ◽  
Rna Localization ◽  
Proper Function ◽  
Gene Products ◽  
Anterior Cortex ◽  
Drosophila Oogenesis ◽  
Cortical Cytoskeleton

We have examined cytoskeletal requirements for bicoid (bcd) RNA localization during Drosophila oogenesis. bcd is an anterior morphogen whose proper function relies on the localization of its messenger RNA to the anterior cortex of the egg. Drugs that depolymerize microtubules perturb all aspects of bcd RNA localization. During recovery from drug treatment, bcd RNA relocalizes to the oocyte cortex, suggesting that the localization machinery is a component of the cortical cytoskeleton. Taxol, a drug that stabilizes microtubules, also effectively disrupts bcd RNA localization, and the effects of taxol treatments on exuperantia and swallow mutants suggest general roles for these gene products in the multi-step bcd RNA localization process.

scholarly journals TAC1 Gene Products Regulate Pituitary Hormone Secretion and Gene Expression in Prepubertal Grass Carp Pituitary Cells

Endocrinology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 158 (6) ◽  
pp. 1776-1797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guangfu Hu ◽  
Mulan He ◽  
Wendy K. W. Ko ◽  
Anderson O. L. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Protein Kinase ◽  
Mrna Expression ◽  
Grass Carp ◽  
Messenger Rna ◽  
Hormone Secretion ◽  
Adenosine Monophosphate ◽  
Pituitary Hormone ◽  
Neurokinin A ◽  
Pituitary Cells ◽  
Gene Products

Abstract Tachykinin-1 (TAC1) is known to have diverse functions in mammals, but similar information is scarce in fish species. Using grass carp as a model, the pituitary actions, receptor specificity and postreceptor signaling of TAC1 gene products, namely substance P (SP) and neurokinin A (NKA), were examined. TAC1 encoding SP and NKA as well as tachykinin receptors NK1R and NK2R were cloned in the carp pituitary. The newly cloned receptors were shown to be functional with properties similar to mammalian counterparts. In carp pituitary cells, SP and NKA could trigger luteinizing hormone (LH), prolactin (PRL), and somatolactin α (SLα) secretion, with parallel rises in PRL and SLα transcripts. Short-term SP treatment (3 hours) induced LH release, whereas prolonged induction (24 hours) could attenuate LHβ messenger RNA (mRNA) expression. At pituitary cell level, LH, PRL, and SLα regulation by TAC1 gene products were mediated by NK1R, NK2R, and NK3R, respectively. Apparently, SP- and NKA-induced LH and SLα secretion and transcript expression were mediated by adenylyl cyclase/cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)/protein kinase A (PKA), phospholiphase C (PLC)/inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate/protein kinase C (PKC), and Ca2+/calmodulin (CaM)/CaM-dependent protein kinase-II pathways. The signal transduction for PRL responses was similar, except for the absence of a PKC component. Regarding SP inhibition of LHβ mRNA expression, the cAMP/PKA- and PLC/PKC-dependent (but not Ca2+/CaM-dependent) cascades were involved. These results, as a whole, suggest that TAC1 gene products play a role in LH, PRL, and SLα regulation via overlapping postreceptor signaling coupled to different subtypes of tachykinin receptor expressed in the carp pituitary.

Maternal messenger RNA distribution in silkmoth eggs. I. Clone Ec4B is associated with the cortical cytoskeleton

Development ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-505
Author(s):  
W.H. Kastern ◽  
C.A. Watson ◽  
S.J. Berry
Keyword(s):  
Messenger Rna ◽  
Amino Acid Sequences ◽  
Follicle Cells ◽  
Messenger Rnas ◽  
Maternal Mrna ◽  
Hybridization Data ◽  
Interesting Possibility ◽  
Genome Analyses ◽  
Cortical Cytoskeleton

We have constructed a cDNA library from mature egg RNA of the silkmoth, Hyalophora cecropia. Differential screening of the library using cDNA made against mRNAs from the yolky cytoplasm (soluble fraction) and the cortical cytoplasm (cytoskeletal-associated or cortical fraction) resulted in several clones that hybridized to a higher degree to the cDNA from the cytoskeletal-associated fraction. We selected and analyzed the clone giving the strongest signal (designated Ec4b) for its distribution in situ and found that it bound to mRNAs in the nurse cell cytoplasm, in the cortex and in the follicle cells of oocytes. Hybridization of the insert from Ec4b to both detergent-soluble and -insoluble (cortical) RNA on dot blots further supported the observation that the mRNA corresponding to Ec4b was enriched in this cytoskeletal fraction. The mRNA for Ec4b was approximately 500 bases long and the gene seems to be a member of a large multigene family in the H. cecropia genome. Analyses of the nucleotide and amino acid sequences reveal similarity to lepidopteran chorion genes and a lesser but convincing similarity to vertebrate cytokeratins. The filter and in situ hybridization data point to the association of specific messenger RNAs with the cortical cytoskeleton of silkmoth oocytes. Aspects of the structure of the protein encoded by this mRNA suggest that it is a structural component necessary for formation of the cellular blastoderm of the embryo. The association of this maternal mRNA with the cortical cytoskeleton presents the interesting possibility that mRNA bound to the cytoskeleton may be capable of participating in the synthesis of new cytoskeleton or related structures during blastoderm formation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

ALTERED ABUNDANCE OF MESSENGER RNA TRANSCRIPTS WHOSE PRODUCTS HAVE MEMBRANE ATTACHMENT SITES IN PREGNANCY-INDUCED HYPERTENSION

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 447-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
GREGORY I. C. SIMPSON ◽  
LESLIE C. SHARKEY ◽  
JOHN FRAY
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Oral Administration ◽  
Messenger Rna ◽  
Gene Products ◽  
Microarray Technology ◽  
Rna Transcripts ◽  
Attachment Sites ◽  
Glycosylation Sites ◽  
Induced Hypertension ◽  
Membrane Attachment

Pregnancy-induced hypertensive disorders (PIH) are leading causes of maternal mortality. Although the mechanism responsible for initiating and maintaining the disorder is unproven, physiologic molecular attachments in kidney and placenta play a role. The SHHF/Mcc-facp (SHHF) rat has features of the disorder, including abnormal placenta gene expression. To gain a molecular understanding of the gene expression profile associated with PIH, kidneys and placentas of SHHF rats at gestation day 20 were compared to WKY controls using microarray technology. We report that SHHF rats have spontaneous PIH, elevated total placenta weights, and reduced total pup weights than WKY controls and that they also have greater total number of mRNA transcripts expressed in placenta. Kidneys of SHHF rats, on the other hand, not only expressed disproportionately more predicted gene products with attachment sites such as RGD motifs, N-glycosylation sites, and N-myristoylation sites they also responded more profoundly to oral administration of L-arginine. We conclude that the increased abundance of transcripts whose products engage in posttranslational attachments using RGD motifs, N-glycosylation sites, and N-myristoylation sites and the reversal of these increases by oral administration of L-arginine suggests that NO may be of importance in PIH at the level of molecular attachments.

Renin messenger RNA localization in congenital mesoblastic nephroma using in situ hybridization

1989 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 733???740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Taylor ◽  
Terence Cook ◽  
Carl Pearson ◽  
R. Anthony Risdon ◽  
Stanley Peart
Keyword(s):  
In Situ Hybridization ◽  
Messenger Rna ◽  
Rna Localization ◽  
Mesoblastic Nephroma ◽  
Congenital Mesoblastic Nephroma
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