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J Undergrad Neurosci Educ ; 21(1): A63-A71, 2022.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38322046

RESUMEN

Undergraduate neurobiology courses cover neural development as a major theme but there are few labs to provide hands-on experience with these topics. Here we share a 3-week set of lab activities using zebrafish embryos that allow students to see the direct effect of drug exposure on physical and emotional development. In these labs, student expose new embryos (Lab 1) to the environmental toxin lithium chloride, which inhibits anterior development and produces an eyeless phenotype in fixed larvae (Lab 2), and to psychiatric medications fluoxetine and quetiapine, which alter anxiety-like behavior measured live in grown juveniles (Lab 3). Lab worksheets ask students to investigate the signaling pathways affected by these drugs and how they might affect neural development in different ways. Student opinion surveys suggest these lab activities were successful in both providing hands-on work with zebrafish as a model organism for neural development and better understanding of how drugs can impact development of the nervous system.

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Dev Biol ; 393(1): 149-159, 2014 Sep 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24956419

RESUMEN

Neutrophilic granulocytes are the most abundant type of myeloid cells and form an essential part of the innate immune system. In vertebrates the first neutrophils are thought to originate during primitive hematopoiesis, which precedes hematopoietic stem cell formation. In zebrafish embryos, it has been suggested that primitive neutrophils may originate in two distinct sites, the anterior (ALPM) and posterior lateral plate mesoderm (PLPM). An ETS-family transcription factor Etsrp/Etv2/ER71 has been implicated in vasculogenesis and hematopoiesis in multiple vertebrates. However, its role during neutrophil development is not well understood. Here we demonstrate using zebrafish embryos that Etv2 has a specific cell-autonomous function during primitive neutropoiesis in the anterior lateral plate mesoderm (ALPM) but has little effect on erythropoiesis or the posterior lateral plate mesoderm (PLPM) expression of neutrophil marker myeloperoxidase mpo/mpx. Our results argue that ALPM-derived neutrophils originate from etv2-expressing cells which downregulate etv2 during neutropoiesis. We further show that Scl functions downstream of Etv2 in anterior neutropoiesis. Additionally, we demonstrate that mpx expression within the PLPM overlaps with gata1 expression, potentially marking the cells with a dual myelo-erythroid potential. Intriguingly, initiation of mpx expression in the PLPM is dependent on gata1 but not etv2 function. Our results demonstrate that mpx expression is controlled differently in the ALPM and PLPM regions and describe novel roles for etv2 and gata1 during primitive neutropoiesis.


Asunto(s)
Factor de Transcripción GATA1/genética , Leucopoyesis , Neutrófilos/citología , Peroxidasa/biosíntesis , Proteínas de Pez Cebra/genética , Pez Cebra/embriología , Animales , Factores de Transcripción con Motivo Hélice-Asa-Hélice Básico/genética , Embrión no Mamífero , Factor de Transcripción GATA1/biosíntesis , Regulación del Desarrollo de la Expresión Génica , Técnicas de Silenciamiento del Gen , Células Madre Hematopoyéticas/citología , Células Madre Hematopoyéticas/fisiología , Mesodermo/embriología , Mesodermo/metabolismo , Morfolinos/genética , Peroxidasa/genética , Proteínas Proto-Oncogénicas/biosíntesis , Proteínas Proto-Oncogénicas/genética , Proteína 1 de la Leucemia Linfocítica T Aguda , Transactivadores/biosíntesis , Transactivadores/genética , Troponina T/genética , Pez Cebra/sangre , Proteínas de Pez Cebra/biosíntesis
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Cell Rep ; 32(3): 107922, 2020 07 21.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32698014

RESUMEN

Spatiotemporal control of Wnt/ß-catenin signaling is critical for organism development and homeostasis. The poly-(ADP)-ribose polymerase Tankyrase (TNKS1) promotes Wnt/ß-catenin signaling through PARylation-mediated degradation of AXIN1, a component of the ß-catenin destruction complex. Although Wnt/ß-catenin is a niche-restricted signaling program, tissue-specific factors that regulate TNKS1 are not known. Here, we report prostate-associated gene 4 (PAGE4) as a tissue-specific TNKS1 inhibitor that robustly represses canonical Wnt/ß-catenin signaling in human cells, zebrafish, and mice. Structural and biochemical studies reveal that PAGE4 acts as an optimal substrate decoy that potently hijacks substrate binding sites on TNKS1 to prevent AXIN1 PARylation and degradation. Consistently, transgenic expression of PAGE4 in mice phenocopies TNKS1 knockout. Physiologically, PAGE4 is selectively expressed in stromal prostate fibroblasts and functions to establish a proper Wnt/ß-catenin signaling niche through suppression of autocrine signaling. Our findings reveal a non-canonical mechanism for TNKS1 inhibition that functions to establish tissue-specific control of the Wnt/ß-catenin pathway.


Asunto(s)
Antígenos de Neoplasias/metabolismo , Especificidad de Órganos , Tanquirasas/antagonistas & inhibidores , Vía de Señalización Wnt , Secuencias de Aminoácidos , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Animales , Antígenos de Neoplasias/química , Proteína Axina , Fibroblastos/metabolismo , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Masculino , Ratones Noqueados , Modelos Biológicos , Poli ADP Ribosilación , Próstata/metabolismo , Dominios Proteicos , Proteolisis , Células del Estroma/metabolismo , Especificidad por Sustrato , Tanquirasas/química , Tanquirasas/metabolismo , Ubiquitinación , Pez Cebra
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Elife ; 82019 01 24.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30676317

RESUMEN

The force generated by muscles leads to signaling that helps to shape nearby tendon precursor cells.


Asunto(s)
Contracción Muscular , Tendones/fisiología , Animales , Humanos , Músculo Esquelético/fisiología , Pez Cebra
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BMC Evol Biol ; 8: 52, 2008 Feb 18.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18282299

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BACKGROUND: The evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria is a topic of major medical importance. Evolution is the result of natural selection acting on variant phenotypes. Both the rigid base sequence of DNA and the more plastic expression patterns of the genes present define phenotype. RESULTS: We investigated the evolution of resistant E. coli when exposed to low concentrations of antibiotic. We show that within an isogenic population there are heritable variations in gene expression patterns, providing phenotypic diversity for antibiotic selection to act on. We studied resistance to three different antibiotics, ampicillin, tetracycline and nalidixic acid, which act by inhibiting cell wall synthesis, protein synthesis and DNA synthesis, respectively. In each case survival rates were too high to be accounted for by spontaneous DNA mutation. In addition, resistance levels could be ramped higher by successive exposures to increasing antibiotic concentrations. Furthermore, reversion rates to antibiotic sensitivity were extremely high, generally over 50%, consistent with an epigenetic inheritance mode of resistance. The gene expression patterns of the antibiotic resistant E. coli were characterized with microarrays. Candidate genes, whose altered expression might confer survival, were tested by driving constitutive overexpression and determining antibiotic resistance. Three categories of resistance genes were identified. The endogenous beta-lactamase gene represented a cryptic gene, normally inactive, but when by chance expressed capable of providing potent ampicillin resistance. The glutamate decarboxylase gene, in contrast, is normally expressed, but when overexpressed has the incidental capacity to give an increase in ampicillin resistance. And the DAM methylase gene is capable of regulating the expression of other genes, including multidrug efflux pumps. CONCLUSION: In this report we describe the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria mediated by the epigenetic inheritance of variant gene expression patterns. This provides proof in principle that epigenetic inheritance, as well as DNA mutation, can drive evolution.


Asunto(s)
Resistencia a la Ampicilina/genética , Epigénesis Genética , Escherichia coli/genética , Regulación Bacteriana de la Expresión Génica , Ampicilina/química , Ampicilina/farmacología , Antibacterianos/química , Antibacterianos/farmacología , Escherichia coli/crecimiento & desarrollo , Proteínas de Escherichia coli/genética , Evolución Molecular , Glutamato Descarboxilasa/genética , Ácido Glutámico/química , Proteínas de la Membrana/genética , Ácido Nalidíxico/farmacología , Análisis de Secuencia por Matrices de Oligonucleótidos , Tetraciclina/farmacología
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Mol Cell Biol ; 32(17): 3527-40, 2012 Sep.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22751927

RESUMEN

Mutations in cardiac actin (ACTC) have been associated with different cardiac abnormalities in humans, including dilated cardiomyopathy and septal defects. However, it is still poorly understood how altered ACTC structure affects cardiovascular physiology and results in the development of distinct congenital disorders. A zebrafish mutant (s434 mutation) was identified that displays blood regurgitation in a dilated heart and lacks endocardial cushion (EC) formation. We identified the mutation as a single nucleotide change in the alpha-cardiac actin 1a gene (actc1a), resulting in a Y169S amino acid substitution. This mutation is located at the W-loop of actin, which has been implicated in nucleotide sensing. Consequently, s434 mutants show loss of polymerized cardiac actin. An analogous mutation in yeast actin results in rapid depolymerization of F-actin into fragments that cannot reanneal. This polymerization defect can be partially rescued by phalloidin treatment, which stabilizes F-actin. In addition, actc1a mutants show defects in cardiac contractility and altered blood flow within the heart tube. This leads to downregulation or mislocalization of EC-specific gene expression and results in the absence of EC development. Our study underscores the importance of the W-loop for actin functionality and will help us to understand the structural and physiological consequences of ACTC mutations in human congenital disorders.


Asunto(s)
Actinas/química , Actinas/genética , Endocardio/embriología , Cardiopatías Congénitas/embriología , Cardiopatías Congénitas/genética , Mutación , Pez Cebra/embriología , Actinas/metabolismo , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Sustitución de Aminoácidos , Animales , Embrión no Mamífero/anomalías , Embrión no Mamífero/irrigación sanguínea , Embrión no Mamífero/embriología , Embrión no Mamífero/metabolismo , Endocardio/anomalías , Endocardio/metabolismo , Corazón/efectos de los fármacos , Corazón/embriología , Corazón/fisiología , Corazón/fisiopatología , Cardiopatías Congénitas/metabolismo , Cardiopatías Congénitas/fisiopatología , Modelos Moleculares , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Morfogénesis , Miocardio/metabolismo , Miofibrillas/genética , Miofibrillas/metabolismo , Miofibrillas/ultraestructura , Faloidina/farmacología , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genética , Proteínas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genética , Pez Cebra/genética , Pez Cebra/metabolismo
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