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Development, Vol 112, Issue 2 559-569, Copyright © 1991 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Morphogenesis and regulated gene activity are independent of DNA replication in Xenopus embryos

MB Rollins and MT Andrews
Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695-7614.

Xenopus embryos were transferred into media containing aphidicolin at late blastula, mid-gastrula, and early neurula stages. In each case, embryos continued to differentiate in the absence of DNA replication. When the inhibitor was added at late blastula, embryos continued to develop for about 8 h. However, when aphidicolin was added at the early neurula stage, development could be seen for up to 40 h after addition. The influence of replication on embryonic gene activity was studied by RNA blot analysis. Of the genes we examined only histone gene expression was down regulated by the addition of aphidicolin. The expression of various embryo-specific genes was unaffected by the lack of DNA synthesis. Even after several hours of treatment with aphidicolin, replication-inhibited tailbud and tadpole stages showed the same levels of specific mRNAs as control embryos containing 4-5 times more DNA. We conclude that morphogenesis and embryo-specific gene activity are independent of both DNA replication and a precise amount of DNA per embryo.


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