Cytoplasmically anchored plakoglobin induces a WNT-like phenotype in Xenopus

Developmental Biology
J MerriamM W Klymkowsky

Abstract

Plakoglobin is one of two vertebrate proteins closely related to the Drosophila segment polarity gene product armadillo. Overexpression of plakoglobin induces neural axis duplication in Xenopus and the exogenous plakoglobin is localized to nuclei (Karnovsky, A., and Klymkowsky, M. W., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92, 4255, 1995; Rubenstein, A., et al., Dev. Genet., 1997, in press). We have carried out a series of experiments to test whether the nuclear localization of plakoglobin is required for its inductive effects. Prior to the midblastula transition exogenous plakoglobin is cytoplasmic and concentrated in the cortical regions of blastomeres; after the midblastula transition exogenous plakoglobin accumulates in embryonic nuclei. The addition of a "nuclear localization sequence" does not change the timing of plakoglobin's nuclear localization, suggesting that it is anchored in the cytoplasm prior to the midblastula transition. Next, we constructed two "membrane-anchored" forms of plakoglobin. These are exclusively cytoplasmic; yet both were as effective at producing a "Wnt-like" axis duplication as were "free," unfettered forms of plakoglobin. Moreover, expression of anchored plakoglobins had no apparent effect on the cytoplasm...Continue Reading

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