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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-8-20
pubmed:abstractText
To study the mechanisms behind the suppression of gene expression in the early phase of Xenopus development (cleavage stage), we conducted in silico cloning of the Xenopus transcriptional repressor NC2alpha. A search of the GenBank EST database using human NC2alpha as a probe identified Xenopus mitotic phosphoprotein 30 (xMP30) as a prime candidate for Xenopus NC2alpha (xNC2alpha). Full-length cDNA sequencing showed that xNC2alpha/xMP30 had a 68.9% identity at the amino acid level with its human counterpart. Northern blotting showed that xNC2alpha existed abundantly as a maternal mRNA. After the fertilization, the expression of xNC2alpha rapidly increased and reached a maximum 3 h before midblastula transition (MBT). Then its expression gradually decreased toward the early neurula stage. The expression profile of xNC2alpha mRNA is compatible with that of xNC2beta, which is the other component of the Xenopus NC2 transcriptional repressor.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1025-8140
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
273-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-26
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Embryo, Nonmammalian, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Expressed Sequence Tags, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Gene Library, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Phosphoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-RNA, Ribosomal, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Transcription, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Xenopus, pubmed-meshheading:12186744-Xenopus Proteins
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Expression of transcriptional repressor NC2alpha during Xenopus early embryogenesis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biological Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Nihon University, 7-7-1 Narashino-dai, Funabashi, Chiba 274-8555, Japan. jfkugawa@pha.nihon-u.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article