Expression of zisp, a DHHC zinc finger gene, in somites and lens during zebrafish embryogenesis.
The zebrafish zisp gene encodes a putative transmembrane protein with a DHHC zinc finger motif. At the segmentation period zisp is expressed in the adaxial cells and the somites in a striping pattern. The zisp transcripts are localized to the posterior parts within the individual somites. In fused somites mutants, zisp is expressed throughout the somitic mesoderm. These expression patterns are similar to those of myoD. In addition to the somitic expression, the zisp expression was observed in lens cells at the late segmentation period and the early pharyngula period.
Nagaya
Masato
M
Department of Biological Information, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan.
Inohaya
Keiji
K
Imai
Yoshiyuki
Y
Kudo
Akira
A
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000196:embryology / Q000378:metabolism*; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D019170:Somites / Q000378:metabolism*; D015027:Zebrafish / Q000196:embryology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D029961:Zebrafish Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
D008565:Membrane Proteins; D029961:Zebrafish Proteins; C472860:zdhhc8b protein, zebrafish