PUBLICATION
Depletion of Med10 enhances Wnt and suppresses Nodal signaling during zebrafish embryogenesis
- Authors
- Lin, X., Rinaldo, L., Fazly, A.F., and Xu, X.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-070122-23
- Date
- 2007
- Source
- Developmental Biology 303(2): 536-548 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Lin, Xueying, Xu, Xiaolei
- Keywords
- Transcriptional Mediator Complex (MED), Med10, Med12, Med13, Med15, Wnt, Nodal, Zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- DNA Primers/genetics
- Cloning, Molecular
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Base Sequence
- Zebrafish Proteins/deficiency*
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- Transforming Growth Factor beta/metabolism*
- Animals
- Mutation
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish/metabolism*
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Signal Transduction
- Nodal Protein
- Wnt Proteins/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 17208216 Full text @ Dev. Biol.
Citation
Lin, X., Rinaldo, L., Fazly, A.F., and Xu, X. (2007) Depletion of Med10 enhances Wnt and suppresses Nodal signaling during zebrafish embryogenesis. Developmental Biology. 303(2):536-548.
Abstract
The transcriptional Mediator (MED) is a multiprotein complex that transmits information from transcription factors to RNA polymerase II (PolII) to regulate transcription. At present, the role of distinct MED subunits in general transcription versus transcription stimulated by specific signaling pathways is unclear. By means of positional cloning, we reveal that the zebrafish mutant tennismatch is a hypomorphic allele of Med10, a conserved MED middle domain subunit. Using morpholino antisense oligonucleotides, we further demonstrate that reduction of Med10 levels led to an enhancement of the Wnt signaling pathway, while also suggesting a role for Med10 in mediating the Nodal signaling pathway. In contrast to the dual roles of Med10, reduction of Med12 and Med13 levels, two MED subunits in the regulatory domain, led to an enhancement of the Wnt signaling pathway but not the Nodal pathway, while reduction of Med15 levels, a MED subunit in the tail domain, suppressed the Nodal signaling pathway but not the Wnt signaling pathway. Thus, Med10 appears to be a unique MED subunit that differentially transduces information from distinct signaling pathways during zebrafish embryogenesis.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping