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JOURNAL OF ANATOMY
Volume 241, Issue 1, Pages 42-66Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13629
Keywords
Cdc25 genes; Cdk genes; Cdkn genes; cell differentiation; cell division; Chicken embryo; comparison with mouse; frog; zebrafish expression data; Cyclin (Ccn) genes; in situ hybridisation; myogenesis; neurogenesis; neurula; pharyngula; subcellular mRNA localisation
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- European Commission
- University of Portsmouth
- IBBS studentship
- UoP Start-up grant
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This study investigated the expression patterns of core cell cycle regulators in chicken embryos during early neurula and pharyngula stages. The results showed that some genes are specifically expressed in defined tissues, forming novel synexpression groups, and mRNAs of some genes accumulate in specific subcellular localizations. The study also found that expression patterns of orthologous genes may differ among different vertebrate models.
The core cell cycle machinery is conserved from yeast to humans, and hence it is assumed that all vertebrates share the same set of players. Yet during vertebrate evolution, the genome was duplicated twice, followed by a further genome duplication in teleost fish. Thereafter, distinct genes were retained in different vertebrate lineages; some individual gene duplications also occurred. To which extent these diversifying tendencies were compensated by retaining the same expression patterns across homologous genes is not known. This study for the first time undertook a comprehensive expression analysis for the core cell cycle regulators in the chicken, focusing in on early neurula and pharyngula stages of development, with the latter representing the vertebrate phylotypic stage. We also compared our data with published data for the mouse, Xenopus and zebrafish, the other established vertebrate models. Our work shows that, while many genes are expressed widely, some are upregulated or specifically expressed in defined tissues of the chicken embryo, forming novel synexpression groups with markers for distinct developmental pathways. Moreover, we found that in the neural tube and in the somite, mRNAs of some of the genes investigated accumulate in a specific subcellular localisation, pointing at a novel link between the site of mRNA translation, cell cycle control and interkinetic nuclear movements. Finally, we show that expression patterns of orthologous genes may differ in the four vertebrate models. Thus, for any study investigating cell proliferation, cell differentiation, tissue regeneration, stem cell behaviour and cancer/cancer therapy, it has to be carefully examined which of the observed effects are due to the specific model organism used, and which can be generalised.
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