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      Contrasting developmental and tissue-specific expression of alpha and beta thyroid hormone receptor genes.

      The EMBO Journal
      Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Base Sequence, Chick Embryo, Chickens, Cloning, Molecular, Genetic Variation, Growth, genetics, Molecular Sequence Data, Organ Specificity, Poly A, metabolism, Proto-Oncogene Proteins, RNA Splicing, RNA, Messenger, Receptors, Thyroid Hormone, biosynthesis, Triiodothyronine

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          Thyroid hormones and their receptors (TRs) have critical functions in development. Here we show that a chicken TR beta cDNA clone encodes a receptor with a novel, short N-terminal domain. In vitro-expressed TR beta protein bound thyroid hormone with similar affinity as the chicken TR alpha. Comparison of expression of TR alpha and TR beta mRNAs throughout chicken development until 3 weeks post-hatching revealed ubiquitous expression of TR alpha mRNAs (in 14 different tissues) with some variations in levels, from early embryonic stages. In contast, expression of TR beta mRNA was restricted, occurring notably in brain, eye, lung, yolk sac and kidney, and was subject to striking developmental control, especially in brain where levels increased 30-fold upon hatching. Levels also sharply increased in late embryonic lung, but were relatively high earlier in embryonic eye and yolk sac. RNase protection analyses detected no obvious mRNAs for alpha and beta TRs with variant C-termini as demonstrated previously for the rat TR alpha gene. The data suggest a general role for TR alpha and specific developmental functions for TR beta, and that thyroid-dependent development involves temporal and tissue-specific expression of the TR beta gene.

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