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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 269, Issue 18, Pages 4597-4606Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2002.03159.x
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hydra; foot-specific peroxidase; differentiation processes; developmental regulation of gene expression
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In hydra, differentiated ectodermal cells of the foot region contain a peroxidase activity that can be used as a marker for foot-specific differentiation processes. Because the expression of the gene coding for the peroxidase must be tightly regulated during foot-specific differentiation, characterization of the protein and cloning of the corresponding gene should provide valuable tools for getting deeper insights into the regulation of foot-specific differentiation. In this paper we characterize the foot-specific peroxidase by biochemical, histochemical, and molecular biological methods. We show that it is localized in granules, and that it consists of a single component, the molecular mass of which is in the range of 43-45 kDa. Purification of the protein and subsequent cloning of its complementary DNA yielded two closely related clones, ppod1 and ppod2 . Transcripts of ppod2 are abundant in the whole animal with the exception of the hypostome, the tentacles, and the foot; the expression of ppod1 matches exactly the localization of the foot-specific peroxidase.
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