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DEVELOPMENT
卷 135, 期 19, 页码 3219-3228出版社
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.025809
关键词
Hox; Ultrabithorax; Polycomb; autoregulation; engrailed
资金
- Direccion General de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnica [BMC2005-04342]
- Consolider Programme of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion
- Fundacion Ramon Areces
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
The Ultrabithorax (Ubx) gene of Drosophila specifies the third thoracic and first abdominal segments. Ubx expression is controlled by several mechanisms, including negative regulation by its own product. We show here that if Ubx expression levels are inappropriately elevated, overriding the auto-regulatory control, a permanent repression of Ubx is established. This continuous repression becomes independent of the presence of exogenous Ubx and leads to the paradoxical result that an excess of Ubx results in a phenotype of Ubx loss. The mechanism of permanent repression depends on Polycomb-group genes. Absence of endogenous Ubx transcription when Ubx levels are highly elevated probably activates Polycomb complexes on a Polycomb response element located in the Ubx major intron. This, in turn, brings about permanent repression of Ubx transcription. Similar results are obtained with the gene engrailed, showing that this mechanism of permanent repression may be a general one for genes with negative auto-regulation when levels of expression are transitorily elevated.
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