PUBLICATION

Differential Requirements for COPI Transport during Vertebrate Early Development

Authors
Coutinho, P., Parsons, M.J., Thomas, K.A., Hirst, E.M., Saude, L., Campos, I., Williams, P.H., Stemple, D.L.
ID
ZDB-PUB-041008-8
Date
2004
Source
Developmental Cell   7(4): 547-558 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Coutinho, Pedro, Parsons, Michael, Saude, Leonor, Stemple, Derek L., Thomas, Kevin, Williams, Huw
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Apoptosis
  • Biological Transport*
  • Cell Differentiation/genetics
  • Coat Protein Complex I/chemistry
  • Coat Protein Complex I/genetics
  • Coat Protein Complex I/metabolism*
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum/genetics
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum/metabolism
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum/ultrastructure
  • Gene Deletion
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
  • Golgi Apparatus/metabolism
  • Golgi Apparatus/pathology
  • Melanophores/physiology
  • Mesoderm
  • Microinjections
  • Microscopy, Confocal
  • Notochord/embryology
  • Notochord/physiology
  • Notochord/ultrastructure
  • Oligonucleotides, Antisense/pharmacology
  • Point Mutation
  • Protein Subunits/chemistry
  • Protein Subunits/genetics
  • RNA, Messenger/genetics
  • RNA, Messenger/metabolism
  • Transcription, Genetic
  • Up-Regulation
  • Vertebrates/embryology*
  • Vertebrates/genetics*
  • Zebrafish/embryology
  • Zebrafish/genetics
  • Zebrafish Proteins/chemistry
  • Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
  • Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
PubMed
15469843 Full text @ Dev. Cell
Abstract
The coatomer vesicular coat complex is essential for normal Golgi and secretory activities in eukaryotic cells. Through positional cloning of genes controlling zebrafish notochord development, we found that the sneezy, happy, and dopey loci encode the alpha, beta, and beta' subunits of the coatomer complex. Export from mutant endoplasmic reticulum is blocked, Golgi structure is disrupted, and mutant embryos eventually degenerate due to widespread apoptosis. The early embryonic phenotype, however, demonstrates that despite its "housekeeping" functions, coatomer activity is specifically and cell autonomously required for normal chordamesoderm differentiation, perinotochordal basement membrane formation, and melanophore pigmentation. Hence, differential requirements for coatomer activity among embryonic tissues lead to tissue-specific developmental defects. Moreover, we note that the mRNA encoding alpha coatomer is strikingly upregulated in notochord progenitors, and we present data suggesting that alpha coatomer transcription is tuned to activity- and cell type-specific secretory loads.
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