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Autoinduction of activin genes in early Xenopus embryos.
Suzuki A
,
Nagai T
,
Nishimatsu S
,
Sugino H
,
Eto Y
,
Shibai H
,
Murakami K
,
Ueno N
.
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Activin exhibits a potent mesoderm inducing activity towards the ectodermal tissue (animal cap) of Xenopus laevis blastulae. Thus in order to investigate the role of activin in morphogenesis of early Xenopus embryos, activation of genes for activin beta A and beta B was examined by the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. In vivo, activin beta B mRNA appears to be present in embryonic stage 1 whereas beta A mRNA is undetectable prior to gastrulation. beta B and beta A mRNAs were noted to accumulate after stages 9 and 15 respectively. Activin gene expression in Xenopus animal caps was examined after treatment with various concentrations of activin A. Under these treatment conditions, both activin beta A and beta B mRNAs accumulated in a dose-dependent fashion after 24 h. The same effect was noted for treatment with similar concentrations of activin B. Accumulation of mRNAs was inhibited by the addition of cycloheximide to the culture medium, consistent with the proposition that activin gene expression requires certain protein factors. In total, therefore, these data suggest that an autoinduction mechanism is involved in the regulation of activin mRNA levels in normal Xenopus embryos and that this mechanism may play a pivotal role during early embryonic development.
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