An Unusual Genomic Position Effect on Drosophila White Gene Expression: Pairing Dependence, Interactions with Zeste, and Molecular Analysis of Revertants
AUTOR(ES)
Hazelrigg, T.
RESUMO
The white gene in the A(R)4-24 P[white,rosy] insertion on chromosome 2 has a novel expression pattern, in which it is repressed in the dorsal half of the eye. X-ray mutagenesis led to the isolation of six revertants mapping to chromosome 2, which are wild type in a zeste(+) background, and three extreme derivatives, in which white gene expression is repressed in ventral regions of the eye as well. By Southern blot analyses the breakpoints of five of the revertants and one of the extreme derivatives were mapped in the flanking DNA bordering each side of the A(R)4-24 insertion. The revertants show some dorsal repression of white in the presence of z(1), and by this criterion each is only a partial revertant. The extreme derivatives act not only in cis, but also in trans to repress expression of A(R)4-24 and its various derivatives. We provide evidence that these trans effects are proximity-dependent effects, possibly mediated by pairing of gene copies, as they do not extend to copies of the white gene located elsewhere in the genome. We show that one extreme derivative, E1, is a small deletion spanning the insertion site at the 5' end of the white gene, and propose that the distance between a negative regulatory element in the 5' flanking DNA and the white promoter influences the degree of the repression.
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