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XB-ART-24777
Dev Biol 1991 Jun 01;1452:241-54. doi: 10.1016/0012-1606(91)90123-k.
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Regulation of the Xenopus laevis transcription factor IIIA gene during oogenesis and early embryogenesis: negative elements repress the O-TFIIIA promoter in embryonic cells.

Pfaff SL , Hall RK , Hart GC , Taylor WL .


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Expression of the Xenopus laevis transcription factor IIIA (TFIIIA) gene is developmentally regulated. In this study we have used defined nucleotide mutations to map cis-elements involved in transcriptional regulation of the promoter for oocyte-TFIIIA (O-TFIIIA) in stage II-IV oocytes, stage VI oocytes, and tail bud embryos. During oogenesis O-TFIIIA mRNA levels decline 5- to 10-fold, and during early embryogenesis O-TFIIIA mRNA levels decline approximately 10(6)-fold per cell. In stage II-IV oocytes we find evidence for at least three distinct positive-acting cis-elements that contribute to the efficient expression of O-TFIIIA. These elements are located between -1800 to -425, -280 to -235, and -235 to -220. The most distal cis-element(s) appears to be developmentally regulated during oogenesis, since deletion of nucleotide sequences from -1800 to -425 does not reduce O-TFIIIA expression in stage VI oocytes. However, the two cis-elements located between -280 to -235 and -235 to -220 are required for the efficient expression of O-TFIIIA in stage VI oocytes. In tail bud embryos we find evidence for several developmentally regulated positive and negative cis-elements involved in O-TFIIIA expression. The positive-acting cis-elements are located between -159 to -110 and -110 to -58. The negative-acting cis-elements are found at positions -425 to -350 and -200 to -159. In addition to the developmentally regulated elements controlling O-TFIIIA gene expression in tail bud embryos, the positive-acting cis-elements active during oogenesis (located between -280 to -235 and -235 to -220) are also active during early embryogenesis. Thus, transcription from the O-TFIIIA promoter appears to be regulated by a combination of constitutive positive factors and developmentally regulated positive and negative factors during oogenesis and early embryogenesis.

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Species referenced: Xenopus laevis
Genes referenced: gtf3a