PUBLICATION
Cloning and expression analysis of cadherin7 in the central nervous system of the embryonic zebrafish
- Authors
- Liu, B., Joel Duff, R., Londraville, R.L., Marrs, J.A., and Liu, Q.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-060616-54
- Date
- 2007
- Source
- Gene expression patterns : GEP 7(1-2): 15-22 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Liu, Qin, Marrs, James A.
- Keywords
- Zebrafish, Development, Cell adhesion molecules, Brain, Spinal cord, Visual system
- MeSH Terms
-
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cadherins/genetics*
- Central Nervous System/embryology*
- Central Nervous System/metabolism*
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- In Situ Hybridization
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- PubMed
- 16774849 Full text @ Gene Expr. Patterns
Citation
Liu, B., Joel Duff, R., Londraville, R.L., Marrs, J.A., and Liu, Q. (2007) Cloning and expression analysis of cadherin7 in the central nervous system of the embryonic zebrafish. Gene expression patterns : GEP. 7(1-2):15-22.
Abstract
Cadherin cell adhesion molecules exhibit unique expression patterns during development of the vertebrate central nervous system. In this study, we obtained a full-length cDNA of a novel zebrafish cadherin using reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and 5' and 3' rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE). The deduced amino acid sequence of this molecule is most similar to the published amino acid sequences of chicken and mammalian cadherin7 (Cdh7), a member of the type II cadherin subfamily. cadherin7 message (cdh7) expression in embryonic zebrafish was studied using in situ hybridization and RT-PCR methods. cdh7 expression begins at about 12h postfertilization (hpf) in a small patch in the anterior neural keel, and along the midline of the posterior neural keel. By 24 hpf, cdh7 expression in the brain shows a distinct segmental pattern that reflects the neuromeric organization of the brain, while its expression domain in the spinal cord is continuous, but confined to the middle region of the spinal cord. As development proceeds, cdh7 expression is detected in more regions of the brain, including the major visual structures in the fore- and midbrains, while its expression domain in the hindbrain becomes more restricted, and its expression in the spinal cord becomes undetectable. cdh7 expression becomes reduced in 3-day old embryos. Our results show that cdh7 expression in the zebrafish developing central nervous system is both spatially and temporally regulated.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping