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  • Title: Induction of tissue transglutaminase and apoptosis by retinoic acid in the limb bud.
    Author: Jiang H, Kochhar DM.
    Journal: Teratology; 1992 Oct; 46(4):333-40. PubMed ID: 1357767.
    Abstract:
    Mesenchymal cells in the limb buds of midgestation mouse embryos suffer prominent cell death upon exposure to retinoic acid (RA), an event likely associated with the micromelic and phocomelic anomalies of the resultant fetuses. It has been suggested, but not yet shown, that cells die by an active process termed apoptosis rather than by necrotic cytolysis. In certain cell types, investigators have previously observed a specific and early effect of RA on transcriptional activation of the gene for tissue transglutaminase (tTG), an enzyme suspected to play a role in apoptosis. We report here a distinct but transient increase in tTG activity which accompanied the initiation of cell death in the mesenchymal cells located in the central core of RA-treated limb buds. We also ascertained microscopically that the cytological appearance of the affected cells was consistent with a characterization of the process of cell death as apoptosis.
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