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Development, Vol 121, Issue 4 1195-1204, Copyright © 1995 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Sequential gene activation by ecdysone in Drosophila melanogaster: the hierarchical equivalence of early and early late genes

F Huet, C Ruiz and G Richards
Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch, CU de Strasbourg, France.

Ecdysteroids are key regulators of insect development. In Drosophila melanogaster the late larval response to ecdysone is characterised by a precise sequential activation of members of the superfamily of nuclear receptors (DHR3, DHR39, EcR, E75, E78, FTZ-F1, usp). Many of these genes are localised in the polytene chromosome puffs of the salivary gland previously classified as intermoult, early or early-late puff loci. Ashburner et al. (Ashburner, M., Chihara, C., Meltzer, P. and Richards, G. (1974) Cold Spring Harbour Symp. Quant. Biol. 38, 655-662) proposed a formal model describing interactions between ecdysone, its receptor and the early and late puffs during this ecdysone response. To integrate transcripts from the intermoult and early-late puffs into this model, we have used a micro RT-PCR assay to study their hormonal regulation using salivary gland culture protocols first used in the puffing analyses. We show that transcripts from certain early-late puffs are induced in parallel with the early transcripts and are thus hierarchically equivalent. In vivo the profile of the increase in hormone titre, the sensitivity of different promoters to hormone and the rate of transcript accumulation must contribute to the temporal differences in expression observed between these two classes.


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