PUBLICATION
Zebrafish cyclin Dx is required for development of motor neuron progenitors, and its expression is regulated by hypoxia-inducible factor 2α
- Authors
- Lien, H.W., Yuan, R.Y., Chou, C.M., Chen, Y.C., Hung, C.C., Hu, C.H., Hwang, S.P., Hwang, P.P., Shen, C.N., Chen, C.L., Cheng, C.H., Huang, C.J.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-160622-9
- Date
- 2016
- Source
- Scientific Reports 6: 28297 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Cheng, Chia-Hsiung, Huang, Chang-Jen, Hu, Chin-Hwa, Hwang, Pung Pung, Hwang, Sheng-Ping L.
- Keywords
- Developmental neurogenesis, Transcriptional regulatory elements
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/physiology*
- COS Cells
- Cell Proliferation
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- Cyclins/physiology*
- Gene Expression
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- HEK293 Cells
- Humans
- Mice
- Motor Neurons/physiology*
- Neural Stem Cells/physiology*
- Neurogenesis
- Zebrafish/embryology
- PubMed
- 27323909 Full text @ Sci. Rep.
Citation
Lien, H.W., Yuan, R.Y., Chou, C.M., Chen, Y.C., Hung, C.C., Hu, C.H., Hwang, S.P., Hwang, P.P., Shen, C.N., Chen, C.L., Cheng, C.H., Huang, C.J. (2016) Zebrafish cyclin Dx is required for development of motor neuron progenitors, and its expression is regulated by hypoxia-inducible factor 2α. Scientific Reports. 6:28297.
Abstract
Cyclins play a central role in cell-cycle regulation; in mammals, the D family of cyclins consists of cyclin D1, D2, and D3. In Xenopus, only homologs of cyclins D1 and D2 have been reported, while a novel cyclin, cyclin Dx (ccndx), was found to be required for the maintenance of motor neuron progenitors during embryogenesis. It remains unknown whether zebrafish possess cyclin D3 or cyclin Dx. In this study, we identified a zebrafish ccndx gene encoding a protein which can form a complex with Cdk4. Through whole-mount in situ hybridization, we observed that zccndx mRNA is expressed in the motor neurons of hindbrain and spinal cord during development. Analysis of a 4-kb promoter sequence of the zccndx gene revealed the presence of HRE sites, which can be regulated by HIF2α. Morpholino knockdown of zebrafish Hif2α and cyclin Dx resulted in the abolishment of isl1 and oligo2 expression in the precursors of motor neurons, and also disrupted axon growth. Overexpression of cyclin Dx mRNA in Hif2α morphants partially rescued zccndx expression. Taken together, our data indicate that zebrafish cyclin Dx plays a role in maintaining the precursors of motor neurons.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping