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Gene Regulation and Systems Biology

Synopsis: An open access, peer reviewed electronic journal that covers regulation of genes and proteins they encode and the broader field of systems biology.


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Early Onset of Heat-Shock Response in Mouse Embryos Revealed by Quantification of Stress-Inducible hsp70i RNA

Authors: Cristina Hartshorn, Aleksandra Anshelevich, Yanwei Jia and Lawrence J. Wangh
Publication Date: 06 Dec 2007
Gene Regulation and Systems Biology 2007:1 365-373

Cristina Hartshorn, Aleksandra Anshelevich1, Yanwei Jia and Lawrence J. Wangh

Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham MA 02454-9110, U.S.A. 1Current address: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6055, U.S.A.

Abstract: Heat shock response is fully established in mouse embryos at the blastocyst stage, but it is unclear when this response first arises during development. To shed light on this question, we used a single-tube method to quantify mRNA levels of the heat shock protein genes hsp70.1 and hsp70.3 (hsp70i) in individual cleavage-stage embryos that had or had not been heat-shocked. While untreated, healthy embryos contained very low copy numbers of hsp70i RNA, heat shock rapidly induced the synthesis of hundreds of hsp70i transcripts per blastomere at both the 4-cell and the 8-cell stages. In addition, we performed hsp70i measurements in embryos that had not been heat-shocked but had been very slow in developing.

Quantification of hsp70i RNA and genomic DNA copy numbers in these slow-growing embryos demonstrated the presence of two distinct populations. Some of the embryos contained considerable levels of hsp70i RNA, a finding consistent with the hypothesis of endogenous metabolic stress accompanied by cell cycle arrest and delayed development. Other slow-growing embryos contained no hsp70i RNA and fewer than expected hsp70i gene copies, suggesting the possibility of ongoing apoptosis. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that mouse embryos can activate hsp70i expression in response to sub-lethal levels of stress as early as at the 4-cell stage. Our results also indicate that quantification of hsp70i DNA and RNA copy numbers may provide a diagnostic tool for embryonic health.



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