PUBLICATION
Initiation of zebrafish haematopoiesis by the TATA-box-binding protein-related factor Trf3
- Authors
- Hart, D.O., Raha, T., Lawson, N.D., and Green, M.R.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-071210-9
- Date
- 2007
- Source
- Nature 450(7172): 1082-1085 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Lawson, Nathan
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/deficiency
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/genetics
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/metabolism
- Embryonic Development
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Hematopoiesis*
- Homeodomain Proteins/genetics
- Homeodomain Proteins/metabolism
- Mice
- TATA Box Binding Protein-Like Proteins/deficiency
- TATA Box Binding Protein-Like Proteins/metabolism*
- Zebrafish/embryology
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish/metabolism*
- Zebrafish Proteins/deficiency
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 18046332 Full text @ Nature
Citation
Hart, D.O., Raha, T., Lawson, N.D., and Green, M.R. (2007) Initiation of zebrafish haematopoiesis by the TATA-box-binding protein-related factor Trf3. Nature. 450(7172):1082-1085.
Abstract
TATA-box-binding protein (TBP)-related factor 3, TRF3 (also called TBP2), is a vertebrate-specific member of the TBP family that has a conserved carboxy-terminal region and DNA-binding domain virtually identical to that of TBP (ref. 1). TRF3 is highly expressed during embryonic development, and studies in zebrafish and Xenopus have shown that it is required for normal embryogenesis. Here we show that zebrafish embryos depleted of Trf3 exhibit multiple developmental defects and, in particular, fail to undergo haematopoiesis. Expression profiling for Trf3-dependent genes identified mespa, which encodes a transcription factor whose murine orthologue is required for mesoderm specification, and chromatin immunoprecipitation verified that Trf3 binds to the mespa promoter. Depletion of Mespa resulted in developmental and haematopoietic defects markedly similar to those induced by Trf3 depletion. Injection of mespa messenger RNA (mRNA) restored normal development to a Trf3-depleted embryo, indicating mespa is the single Trf3 target gene required for zebrafish embryogenesis. Zebrafish embryos depleted of Trf3 or Mespa also failed to express cdx4, a caudal-related gene required for haematopoiesis. Mespa binds to the cdx4 promoter, and epistasis analysis revealed an ordered trf3-mespa-cdx4 pathway. Thus, in zebrafish, commitment of mesoderm to the haematopoietic lineage occurs through a transcription factor pathway initiated by a TBP-related factor.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping