PUBLICATION
Generation of Aberrant Transcripts of and Free DNA Ends in Zebrafish no tail Gene
- Authors
- Yamakoshi, K., Shishido, Y., and Shimoda, N.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-050607-11
- Date
- 2005
- Source
- Marine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.) 7(3): 163-172 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Shimoda, Nobuyoshi
- Keywords
- Zebrafish; no tail; double-stranded end; aberrant transcript; microsatellite repeat
- MeSH Terms
-
- Alternative Splicing/genetics*
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- DNA/chemistry*
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Dinucleotide Repeats/genetics
- Fetal Proteins
- Gene Components
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype*
- RNA, Messenger/genetics*
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- T-Box Domain Proteins/genetics*
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- PubMed
- 15933901 Full text @ Mar. Biotechnol.
Citation
Yamakoshi, K., Shishido, Y., and Shimoda, N. (2005) Generation of Aberrant Transcripts of and Free DNA Ends in Zebrafish no tail Gene. Marine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.). 7(3):163-172.
Abstract
The zebrafish no tail gene (ntl) is indispensable for the formation of the notochord and the tail structure. In a wild-type zebrafish population, we occasionally observed adult zebrafish with a narrow or no tailfin. This led us to examine the hypothesis that the activity of ntl was somehow genetically unstable. Here we present two findings regarding the gene. First, approximately 3% of ntl transcripts were aberrant; most of them carried deletions at various positions. Second, free, DNA double-stranded ends (DSEs) were formed at an AT dinucleotide repeat in ntl. DSEs were also generated in another zebrafish gene, noggin2 (nog2). DSEs in ntl and nog2 had common characteristics, which suggested that the AT repeats in these genes elicited DSEs by blocking progression of the replication.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping