title: Expression of the retinoic acid catabolising enzyme CYP26B1 in the chick embryo and its regulation by retinoic acid.
abstract: We have cloned a fragment of Cyp26B1, a novel retinoic acid (RA) catabolising enzyme, and examined its expression pattern during early stages of chick embryogenesis. It is expressed from stage 7 in the tail bud, an anterior patch of mesenchyme, the heart, the endothelium of the vasculature, the eye, the limb bud, the hindgut and in a complex pattern in the rhombomeres of the hindbrain. As such it has a non-overlapping expression with chick Cyp26A1, the other RA catabolising enzyme, but shows a combination of features of mouse Cyp26A1 and Cyp26B1. We have also examined its expression in the quail embryo and in the RA-free quail embryo. In the absence of RA, Cyp26B1 is only expressed in the hindbrain and fails to be expressed in all the other regions of the embryo, most dramatically in the trunk. Adding back RA rescues Cyp26B1 expression.
authors.affiliation: MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, 4th floor, New Hunt's House, King's College London, Guy's Campus, London Bridge, SE1 1UL, London, UK.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Reijntjes
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gale
authors.forename: Malcolm
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maden
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002642:Chick Embryo; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism*; D015870:Gene Expression; D011784:Quail / Q000196:embryology / Q000378:metabolism; D000072516:Retinoic Acid 4-Hydroxylase; D012249:Rhombencephalon / Q000196:embryology / Q000378:metabolism; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014212:Tretinoin / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D014212:Tretinoin; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D000072516:Retinoic Acid 4-Hydroxylase