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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76538-9
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan [17K19318, 18H03970, 19H05752]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19H05752, 17K19318, 18H03970] Funding Source: KAKEN
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After fertilization, the zygotic genome is activated through two phases, minor zygotic activation (ZGA) and major ZGA. Recently, it was suggested that DUX is expressed during minor ZGA and activates some genes during major ZGA. However, it has not been proven that Dux is expressed during minor ZGA and functions to activate major ZGA genes, because there are several Dux paralogs that may be expressed in zygotes instead of Dux. In this study, we found that more than a dozen Dux paralogs, as well as Dux, are expressed during minor ZGA. Overexpression of some of these genes induced increased expression of major ZGA genes. These results suggest that multiple Dux paralogs are expressed to ensure a sufficient amount of functional Dux and its paralogs which are generated during a short period of minor ZGA with a low transcriptional activity. The mechanism by which multiple Dux paralogs are expressed is discussed.
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