Zebrafish sall1a and sall4 contribute to posterior body elongation
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Project description:Vertebrate embryos elongate the body after gastrulation. Unlike in mice, which elongate both the trunk and tail after gastrulation, zebrafish embryos develop the trunk at the end of gastrulation, followed by tail elongation by proliferation of posteriorly located progenitors. Previous studies have shown that the transcription factors SALL1 and SALL4 redundantly regulate tail elongation in mouse embryos. To test whether sall1a and sall4 also regulate tail elongation in zebrafish, we generated zebrafish mutants for these genes. By 24 hours post-fertilization, sall4 mutant embryos developed normally but exhibited changes in gene expression at the posterior end of the body. sall1a mutants also developed normally by 24 hours post-fertilization. However, embryos mutant for both sall1a and sall4 showed a slight but significant reduction in body length compared to wild-type and sall1a mutant embryos. Our results support a role for sall1a and sall4 in tail elongation in zebrafish, though their contribution appears smaller than that observed in mouse embryos.
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Project description:Deletion of caudal/cdx genes alters hox gene expression and causes defects in posterior tissues and hematopoiesis. Yet, the defects in hox gene expression only partially explain these phenotypes. To gain deeper insight into Cdx4 function, we performed ChIP-seq combined with gene expression profiling in zebrafish, and identified the transcription factor spalt-like 4 (sall4) as a Cdx4 target. ChIP-seq revealed that Sall4 bound to its own gene locus and the cdx4 locus. Expression profiling showed that Cdx4 and Sall4 co-regulate genes such as hox, scl, and lmo2 that initiate hematopoiesis. Combined cdx4/sall4 gene knock-down impairs erythropoiesis, and overexpression of the Cdx4 and Sall4 target genes scl and lmo2 together rescued the erythroid program. These findings suggest that auto- and cross- regulation of Cdx4 and Sall4 establish a stable molecular circuit in mesoderm that facilitates the activation of the blood-specific program as development proceeds. ChIP-seq was performed against Cdx4, Sall4, H3K27ac, and H3K4me3 in bud-stage zebrafish embryos. Input material was sequenced as controls.
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