PUBLICATION

Different regulatory elements are necessary for αI tubulin induction during CNS development and regeneration

Authors
Goldman, D. and Ding, J.
ID
ZDB-PUB-001220-3
Date
2000
Source
Neuroreport   11(17): 3859-3863 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Goldman, Dan
Keywords
CNS development; CNS regeneration; gene expression; optic axon; promoter; retina; retinal ganglion cell; transgenic; zebrafish
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Central Nervous System/growth & development*
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/genetics*
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Nerve Regeneration/genetics*
  • Retina/embryology
  • Retinal Ganglion Cells/metabolism
  • Signal Transduction/genetics
  • Transcriptional Activation
  • Tubulin/biosynthesis*
  • Tubulin/genetics*
  • Zebrafish
PubMed
11117504 Full text @ Neuroreport
Abstract
Developing and regenerating neurons induce genes whose products are necessary for axonal growth, such as that encoding alpha1 tubulin. To determine whether alpha1 tubulin gene induction uses similar mechanisms during CNS development and regeneration, we compared wild-type and mutant alpha1 tubulin promoter activity in the developing and regenerating CNS of transgenic zebrafish. Wild-type alpha1 tubulin promoter activity increased dramatically in the developing and regenerating CNS. In contrast, we generated a mutation in the alpha1 tubulin promoter that prevented its increase during development but retained regeneration-dependent induction in the adult. These results suggest that at least some of the signaling mechanisms used to activate alpha1 tubulin promoter activity during CNS regeneration are different from those used to activate this promoter during development.
Genes / Markers
Figures
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping