PUBLICATION
The anaphase-promoting complex is required in both dividing and quiescent cells during zebrafish development
- Authors
- Wehman, A.M., Staub, W., and Baier, H.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-061227-18
- Date
- 2007
- Source
- Developmental Biology 303(1): 144-156 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Baier, Herwig, Staub, Wendy, Wehman, Ann
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Anaphase-Promoting Complex-Cyclosome
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cell Cycle/physiology*
- Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cyclin B
- DNA Primers
- Immunohistochemistry
- Mitosis/physiology*
- Models, Biological*
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Retina/embryology
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase Complexes/genetics*
- Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase Complexes/metabolism*
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- PubMed
- 17141209 Full text @ Dev. Biol.
Citation
Wehman, A.M., Staub, W., and Baier, H. (2007) The anaphase-promoting complex is required in both dividing and quiescent cells during zebrafish development. Developmental Biology. 303(1):144-156.
Abstract
The anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) regulates multiple stages of the cell cycle, most prominently mitosis. We describe zebrafish with mutations in two APC/C subunits, Cdc16 and Cdc26, whose phenotypes reveal a multifaceted set of defects resulting from the gradual depletion of the APC/C. First, loss of the APC/C in dividing cells results in mitotic arrest, followed by apoptosis. This defect becomes detectable in different organs at different larval ages, because the subunits of the APC/C are maternally deposited, are unusually stable, and are depleted at uneven rates in different tissues. Second, loss of the APC/C in quiescent or differentiated cells results in improper re-entry into the cell cycle, again in an apparently tissue-specific manner. This study is the first demonstration of both functions of the APC/C in a vertebrate organism and also provides an illustration of the surprisingly complex effects that essential, maternally supplied factors can have on the growing animal over a period of 10 days or longer.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping