@article {117,
	title = {Exploring Translational Control of Maternal mRNAs in Zebrafish.},
	journal = {Methods Mol Biol},
	volume = {2218},
	year = {2021},
	month = {2021},
	pages = {367-380},
	abstract = {<p>The study of translational regulation requires reliable measurement of both mRNA levels and protein synthesis. Cytoplasmic polyadenylation is a prevalent mode of translational regulation during oogenesis and early embryogenesis. Here the length of the poly(A) tail of an mRNA is coupled to its translatability. We describe a protocol to identify translationally regulated genes and measure their translation rate in the early zebrafish embryo using genome-wide polysome profiling. This protocol relies on the isolation of mRNA by means of an rRNA depletion strategy, which avoids capture bias due to short poly(A) tail that can occur when using conventional oligo(dT)-based methods. We also present a simple PCR-based method to measure the poly(A) tail length of selected mRNAs.</p>},
	keywords = {Animals, Cytoplasm, Embryo, Nonmammalian, Embryonic Development, Oocytes, Oogenesis, Poly A, Polyadenylation, Protein Biosynthesis, RNA, Messenger, Stored, Zebrafish},
	issn = {1940-6029},
	doi = {10.1007/978-1-0716-0970-5_29},
	author = {Winata, Cecilia Lanny and {\L}api{\'n}ski, Maciej and Ismail, Hisyam and Mathavan, Sinnakaruppan and Sampath, Prabha}
}
@article {69,
	title = {Chromatin states of developmentally-regulated genes revealed by DNA and histone methylation patterns in zebrafish embryos.},
	journal = {Int J Dev Biol},
	volume = {54},
	year = {2010},
	month = {2010},
	pages = {803-13},
	abstract = {<p>Embryo development proceeds from a cascade of gene activation and repression events controlled by epigenetic modifications of DNA and histones. Little is known about epigenetic states in the developing zebrafish, despite its importance as a model organism. We report here DNA methylation and histone modification profiles of promoters of developmentally-regulated genes (pou5f1, sox2, sox3, klf4, nnr, otx1b, nes, vasa), as well as tert and bactin2, in zebrafish embryos at the mid-late blastula transition, shortly after embryonic genome activation. We identify four classes of promoters based on the following profiles: (i) those enriched in marks of active genes (H3K9ac, H4ac, H3K4me3) without transcriptionally repressing H3K9me3 or H3K27me3; (ii) those enriched in H3K9ac, H4ac and H3K27me3, without H3K9me3; one such gene was klf4, shown by in situ hybridization to be mosaically expressed, likely accounting for the detection of both activating and repressive marks on its promoter; (iii) those enriched in H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 without acetylation; and (iv) those enriched in all histone modifications examined. Culture of embryo-derived cells under differentiation conditions leads to H3K9 and H4 deacetylation and H3K9 and H3K27 trimethylation on genes that are inactivated, yielding an epigenetic profile similar to those of fibroblasts or muscle. All promoters however retain H3K4me3, indicating an uncoupling of H3K4me3 occupancy and gene expression. All non-CpG island developmentally-regulated promoters are DNA unmethylated in embryos, but hypermethylated in fibroblasts. Our results suggest that differentially expressed embryonic genes are regulated by various patterns of histone modifications on unmethylated DNA, which create a developmentally permissive chromatin state.</p>},
	keywords = {Animals, Blastula, Cell Line, Chromatin, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, CpG Islands, DNA Methylation, Embryo, Nonmammalian, Fibroblasts, Gene Expression Profiling, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Histones, In Situ Hybridization, Lysine, Methylation, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Zebrafish, Zebrafish Proteins},
	issn = {1696-3547},
	doi = {10.1387/ijdb.103081ll},
	author = {Lindeman, Leif C and Winata, Cecilia L and Aanes, Hvard and Mathavan, Sinnakaruppan and Alestrom, Peter and Collas, Philippe}
}
