PUBLICATION
C1q-like inhibits p53-mediated apoptosis and controls normal hematopoiesis during zebrafish embryogenesis
- Authors
- Mei, J., Zhang, Q.Y., Li, Z., Lin, S., and Gui, J.F.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-080610-2
- Date
- 2008
- Source
- Developmental Biology 319(2): 273-284 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Lin, Shuo, Mei, Jie
- Keywords
- C1q-like factor, p53, Caspase 3/9, Brain, Zebrafish, Apoptosis, G2/M phase arrest, Hematopoiesis
- Datasets
- GEO:GSE8800
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Apoptosis
- Cloning, Molecular
- Complement C1q/deficiency
- Complement C1q/genetics
- Complement C1q/physiology
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Down-Regulation
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/physiology*
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Hematopoiesis/genetics
- Hematopoiesis/physiology*
- Immunohistochemistry
- In Situ Hybridization
- Plasmids
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Transfection
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/antagonists & inhibitors
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/genetics*
- Up-Regulation
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish Proteins/physiology*
- PubMed
- 18514183 Full text @ Dev. Biol.
Citation
Mei, J., Zhang, Q.Y., Li, Z., Lin, S., and Gui, J.F. (2008) C1q-like inhibits p53-mediated apoptosis and controls normal hematopoiesis during zebrafish embryogenesis. Developmental Biology. 319(2):273-284.
Abstract
Except for the complement C1q, the immunological functions of other C1q family members have remained unclear. Here we describe zebrafish C1q-like, whose transcription and translation display a uniform distribution in early embryos, and are restricted to mid-hind brain and eye in later embryos. In vitro studies showed that C1q-like could inhibit the apoptosis induced by ActD and CHX in EPC cells, through repressing caspase 3/9 activities. Moreover, its physiological roles were studied by morpholino-mediated knockdown in zebrafish embryogenesis. In comparison with control embryos, the C1q-like knockdown embryos display obvious defects in the head and craniofacial development mediated through p53-induced apoptosis, which was confirmed by the in vitro transcribed C1q-like mRNA or p53 MO co-injection. TUNEL assays revealed extensive cell death, and caspase 3/9 activity measurement also revealed about two folds increase in C1q-like morphant embryos, which was inhibited by p53 MO co-injection. Real-time quantitative PCR showed the up-regulation expression of several apoptosis regulators such as p53, mdm2, p21, Bax and caspase 3, and down-regulation expression of hbae1 in the C1q-like morphant embryos. Knockdown of C1q-like in zebrafish embryos decreased hemoglobin production and impaired the organization of mesencephalic vein and other brain blood vessels. Interestingly, exposure of zebrafish embryos to UV resulted in an increase in mRNA expression of C1q-like, whereas over-expression of C1q-like was not enough resist to the damage. Furthermore, C1q-like transcription was up-regulated in response to pathogen Aeromonas hydrophila, and embryo survival significantly decreased in the C1q-like morphants after exposure to the bacteria. The data suggested that C1q-like might play an antiapoptotic and protective role in inhibiting p53-dependent and caspase 3/9-mediated apoptosis during embryogenesis, especially in the brain development, and C1q-like should be a novel regulator of cell survival during zebrafish embryogenesis.
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Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
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