RRC ID 3540
著者 Roy Chowdhuri S, Crum T, Woollard A, Aslam S, Okkema PG.
タイトル The T-box factor TBX-2 and the SUMO conjugating enzyme UBC-9 are required for ABa-derived pharyngeal muscle in C. elegans.
ジャーナル Dev Biol
Abstract The C. elegans pharynx is produced from the embryonic blastomeres ABa and MS. Pharyngeal fate in the ABa lineage is specified by the combined activities of GLP-1/Notch-mediated signals and the TBX-37 and TBX-38 T-box transcription factors. Here, we show another T-box factor TBX-2 also functions in ABa-derived pharyngeal development. tbx-2 mutants arrest as L1 larvae lacking most or all ABa-derived pharyngeal muscles. In comparison, tbx-2 mutants retain ABa-derived marginal cells and pharyngeal muscles derived from MS. A tbx-2Colon, two colonsgfp translational fusion is expressed in a dynamic pattern in C. elegans embryos beginning near the 100-cell stage. Early expression is limited to a small number of cells, which likely include the ABa-derived pharyngeal precursors, while later expression is observed in body wall muscles and a subset of pharyngeal neurons. TBX-2 contains 2 consensus sumoylation sites, and it interacts in a yeast two-hybrid assay with the UBC-9 and GEI-17 components of the C. elegans SUMO-conjugating pathway. ubc-9(RNAi) has been previously shown to cause variable embryonic and larval arrest, and we find that, like tbx-2 mutants, ubc-9(RNAi) animals lack ABa-derived pharyngeal muscles. ubc-9(RNAi) also alters the subnuclear distribution of TBX-2::GFP fusion protein, suggesting that UBC-9 and TBX-2 interact in C. elegans. Together, these results indicate that TBX-2 and SUMO-conjugating enzymes are necessary for ABa-derived pharyngeal muscle, and we hypothesize that TBX-2 function requires sumoylation. Sumoylation is increasingly recognized as an important mechanism controlling activity of many nuclear factors, and these results provide the first evidence that T-box factor activity may require sumoylation.
巻・号 295(2)
ページ 664-77
公開日 2006-7-15
DOI 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.04.001
PII S0012-1606(06)00252-1
PMID 16701625
MeSH Animals Binding Sites Blastomeres / cytology Blastomeres / physiology Caenorhabditis elegans / embryology* Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins / metabolism Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins / physiology* Cell Lineage Embryonic Induction Pharyngeal Muscles / cytology Pharyngeal Muscles / embryology RNA, Small Interfering / pharmacology T-Box Domain Proteins / metabolism T-Box Domain Proteins / physiology* Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes / genetics Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes / metabolism Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes / physiology*
IF 2.896
引用数 46
リソース情報
線虫 tm282