Abstract

Roles of zebrafish Nipped-B-like (Nipbl) in gene regulation

Highlights

  • Prep1 (Pknox1) is a homeodomain transcription factor in theTALE superfamily and a critical regulator of hematopoiesis and organogenesis

  • The insertional mouse mutation Acrodysplasia (Adp) confers a parentof-origin developmental phenotype, with animals inheriting the mutation from their father showing skeletal abnormalities, while those inheriting the mutation from their mother are normal

  • To identify the earliest transcriptional changes due to loss of Nipbl function, microarray analyses were performed on morphants at gastrula stages (6.5–9.0 hpf). When both zNipbls were depleted with translation-blocking MOs, at least 7 genes were significantly up-regulated by 6.5 hpf, just hours after the mid-blastula transition (MBT, onset of zygotic transcription)

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Introduction

Prep1 (Pknox1) is a homeodomain transcription factor in theTALE superfamily and a critical regulator of hematopoiesis and organogenesis. Title Roles of zebrafish Nipped-B-like (Nipbl) in gene regulation Using protein-binding microarray analysis, we identified two tandem highly conserved Prep1 bindings sites in the Pax6 EE, predicted to be of medium-affinity binding strength. We define a novel cis-regulatory logic, whereby medium-affinity transcription factor binding sites act additively to define a genetic threshold for gene activation.

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