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The FASEB Journal, Vol 11, 801-808, Copyright © 1997 by The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
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LM Sachs, B Abdallah, A Hassan, G Levi, A De Luze, JC Reed and BA Demeneix
Laboratoire de Physiologie Generale et Comparee, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, URA CNRS 90, Paris, France.
Apoptosis is a fundamental mechanism implicated in normal development. One of the most spectacular developmental events involving apoptosis is tail regression during amphibian metamorphosis. We analyzed how thyroid hormone (3, 5, 3'-triiodothyronine, T3), the orchestrator of metamorphosis, affects expression and function of the proapoptotic gene Bax in the tail muscle of free-living Xenopus tadpoles. During natural metamorphosis Bax mRNA was expressed in tail muscles and was spatially correlated with apoptosis. Precocious treatment of tadpoles with T3 induced Bax expression and apoptosis. To verify that Bax expression was causally related to apoptosis we used a naked DNA gene transfer method to express Bax in the dorsal tail muscle. This induced apoptosis, and the process was exacerbated by T3 treatment. To determine whether T3 effects on Bax expression involved transcriptional regulation, we injected a Bax promoter sequence into dorsal and caudal tail muscles. In the dorsal muscle, T3 treatment did not affect transcription from the Bax promoter. However, in the caudal muscle, T3 treatment significantly increased Bax transcription. We conclude that T3-induced apoptosis in Xenopus tadpole tail muscles involves Bax-activating and Bax-synergis tic mechanisms. These programs are induced in spatially and temporally distinct manners.
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