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Development, Vol 118, Issue 3 1003-1012, Copyright © 1993 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Molecular characterization of the lethal of scute genetic function

MD Martin-Bermudo, F Gonzalez, M Dominguez, I Rodriguez, M Ruiz-Gomez, S Romani, J Modolell and F Jimenez
Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain.

The lethal of scute (l'sc) genetic function, which plays an essential role in the early development of the central nervous system of the Drosophila embryo, is localized within the achaete-scute complex (AS-C). Several lines of evidence have suggested that the AS-C T3 transcription unit corresponds to the l'sc function. We demonstrate that short fragments of DNA, containing the T3 transcribed region and a few kilobases of flanking sequences, rescue, albeit partially, the lethality and neural phenotype of l'sc deletions. Still, the complex wild-type pattern of expression of T3 is not reproduced by the transduced genes. This depends on cis-control elements scattered within the entire AS-C DNA and intermingled with regulatory elements specific for other AS-C transcription units. These elements are necessary for the initial activation of T3 in the neuroectoderm, probably mediated by axis-patterning genes. The presence of a cluster of E-boxes, upstream of the T3 transcribed region, suggests another level of control of T3 expression by basic-helix-loop-helix proteins, among them its own gene product.


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