PUBLICATION
An activated form of type I serine/threonine kinase receptor TARAM-A reveals a specific signalling pathway involved in fish head organiser formation
- Authors
- Renucci, A., Lemarchandel, V., and Rosa, F.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-990416-1
- Date
- 1996
- Source
- Development (Cambridge, England) 122: 3735-3743 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Lemarchandel, Valerie, Renucci, Armand, Rosa, Frederic
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Embryonic Induction/genetics*
- Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/genetics
- Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism*
- Body Patterning/genetics*
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mesoderm/physiology
- Zebrafish/embryology
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Cloning, Molecular
- Receptors, Growth Factor/genetics
- Receptors, Growth Factor/metabolism*
- Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta*
- Amino Acid Sequence
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Animals
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Head/embryology
- Tissue Distribution
- PubMed
- 9012495 Full text @ Development
Citation
Renucci, A., Lemarchandel, V., and Rosa, F. (1996) An activated form of type I serine/threonine kinase receptor TARAM-A reveals a specific signalling pathway involved in fish head organiser formation. Development (Cambridge, England). 122:3735-3743.
Abstract
The role of Transforming Growth Factor beta (TGF-beta)-related molecules in axis formation and mesoderm patterning in vertebrates has been extensively documented, but the identity and mechanisms of action of the endogenous molecules remained uncertain. In this study, we isolate a novel serine/threonine kinase type I receptor, TARAM-A, expressed during early zebrafish embryogenesis first ubiquitously and then restricted to dorsal mesoderm during gastrulation. A constitutive form of the receptor is able to induce the most anterior dorsal mesoderm rapidly and to confer an anterior organizing activity. By contrast, the wild-type form is only able to induce a local expansion of the dorsal mesoderm. Thus an activated form of TARAM-A is sufficient to induce dorsoanterior structures and TARAM-A may be activated by dorsally localized signals. Our data suggest the existence in fish of a specific TGF-beta-related pathway for anterior dorsal mesoderm induction, possibly mediated by TARAM-A and activated at the late blastula stage by localized dorsal determinant.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping