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Fig. 4. Apoc1 is required for neural border formation and neural crest emergence. (A) Whole mount in situ hybridization for the neural crest (NC) markers c-myc, sox9, snai2, twist1, id3. Control MO injected embryos are shown in upper panel and Apoc1 tbMO injected ones are shown in lower panel. (B) The reduction of sox9 and snai2 expression by the Apoc1 tbMO could be rescued by coinjection of 400 pg of apoc1 mRNA (upper panel) but not by coinjection of 400 pg of sp-apoc1 mRNA (lower panel). (C) Whole mount in situ hybridization for the neural plate border specifiers msx1, pax3, zic1, the neural marker sox2, and the non-neural ectoderm marker xk81a1. Control MO injected embryos are shown in upper panel and Apoc1 tbMO injected ones are shown in lower panel. One of the dorsal blastomeres was injected with 30 ng of either control MO (upper panels in A, C) or Apoc1 tbMO (lower panels in A, C) together with 100 pg lacZ mRNA. Embryos were fixed at stage 15. The injected side was traced by X-gal staining (blue). |
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Fig. 6. Apoc1 and gbx2.2 are required for emergence of neural crest cells, but are independently regulated by Wnt signaling. (A-H) The expression of apoc1 and gbx2.2 is independently regulated, but both genes are required for neural crest induction. Apoc1 expression in Gbx2.2 (A) or control MO (B) injected embryos and gbx2.2 expression in Apoc1 (C) or control MO (D) injected embryos. The reduction of sox9 and snai2 expression was not rescued by coinjection of 100 pg gbx2.2 mRNA in Apoc1 (E,G) or 400 pg apoc1 mRNA in Gbx2.2 (F, H) depleted embryos. 30 ng of MO and 100 pg lacZ mRNA was injected into one side of a single dorsoanimal blastomere of 8-cell stage embryos. The embryos were fixed at stage 15. (I-R) Apoc1 and gbx2.2 are both required for Wnt-mediated neural crest induction in vivo. 200 pg of GR-ctnnb1 and 100 pg lacZ mRNA were injected into one side of a dorsoanimal blastomere of 8-cell stage embryos and the embryos were treated with DEX at stage 10.5. The embryos were fixed at stage 15 for whole mount in situ hybridization with snail2 (I), sox9 (J), apoc1 (K), gbx2.2 (L), msx1 (M), and pax3 (N). Ectopic expression of gbx2.2 in GR-ctnnb1 injected embryos was not reduced by coinjecting 30 ng Apoc1 tbMO (P), but the anterior expansion of snai2 was rescued (O). Ectopic expression of apoc1 in GR-ctnnb1 injected embryos was not reduced by coinjecting 30 ng Gbx2.2 MO (R), but the anterior expansion of snai2 was rescued (Q). Blue arrowhead indicates ectopic expression. |
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Fig. 7. Apoc1 does not posteriorize the border. (A-C) Expression of apoc1 (400 pg) is not sufficient to posteriorize the anterior neural border as demonstrated by analysis of snai2 (A), pax3 (B) and foxi4.1 (C) using in situ hybridization. One of the dorsoanimal blastomeres was injected with 400 pg apoc1 and 100 pg lacZ mRNAs at the 8-cell stage. (D-F) Apoc1 is required for expression of foxi4.1 in the posterior preplacodal domain. Whole mount in situ hybrydization of foxi4.1 in control MO (D) or Apoc1 tbMO (E,F) injected embryos. The yellow arrow shows the posterior limit of foxi4.1 expression on the uninjected side. 30 ng of MO was injected with 100 pg of lacZ mRNA into one side of a dorsoanimal blastomere of 8-cell stage embryos and fixed at stage 15. (G) 200 pg of chrd, 200 pg wnt3a and/or 300 pg of apoc1 was injected into two animal blastomeres at the 4- to 8-cell stage. Animal caps were dissected at stage 9 and cultured until stage 14. Gene expression was assayed by RT-PCR. Odc1 is a loading control. |
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Fig. S2. Apoc1 is required for neural border formation and neural crest emergence. Whole mount in situ hybridization for the neural crest (NC) markers snai2, sox9 and twist1 and the neural plate border specifiers pax3 and zic1. Control MO (40ng) injected embryos are shown in upper panel and Apoc1 spMO (40ng) injected ones are shown in lower panel. Injection of Apoc1 spMO also results in a reduction of the expression of the NC markers as well as the neural plate border specifiers on the injected side. |
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Fig. 1. Identification, characterization and regulation of Xenopus apoc1. (A-C) Bar charts showing the expression levels, displayed as fragments per kilobase of transcript per million fragments mapped (FPKM), for apoc1 (A), the Wnt regulated gene nodal3.2 (B), and the non-Wnt regulated gene odc1 (C) in Xenopus tropicalis embryos that were either uninjected (blue), injected with 105 pg axin1 mRNA (pink) or 24 pg <N-HA-ctnnb1 mRNA (green). (D) Schematic drawing of the Apoc1 secretion experiment. mRNA was injected at the two-cell stage. The blastopore fluid was collected at the gastrula stage and subjected to western blot (WB) analysis to determine whether flag-tagged Apoc1 protein is secreted from cells during embryonic development. (E) Apoc1, but not Ctnnb1, protein was detected by WB in the blastocoel fluid after injection of flag-tagged apoc1 (500 pg) and flag-tagged ctnnb1 (1 ng). The tubulin blot shows that there is no cellular contamination in the blastopore fluid. (F) Wnt regulation of apoc1 in Xenopus laevis embryos. (F) 300 pg of wnt3a or 200 pg of chrd and 300 pg wnt3a were injected into the animal side of two blastomeres at the two-cell stage. Animal cap explants were dissected from stage 9 embryos, cultured until stage 10, and processed for RT-PCR analysis. Expression of apoc1, and the known Wnt target gene nodal3.2, was induced by wnt3a alone, and chrd+wnt3a. Odc1 was used as loading control. (G) Apoc1, gbx2.2 and pax3 are immediate-early target gene of Wnt/Ctnnb1 signaling. 200 pg of GR-ctnnb1 and 100 pg lacZ mRNA were injected into one side of a dorsoanimal blastomere of 8-cell stage embryos and the embryos were treated with cycloheximide 30 min prior to DEX treatment at stage 11.5. The expression of apoc1, gbx2.2, pax3 and snail2 were examined by whole mount in situ hybridization. Orange arrows indicate ectopic localization of the tested genes. |
