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Development, Vol 122, Issue 1 333-348, Copyright © 1996 by Company of Biologists
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CV Kirchhamer and EH Davidson
Division of Biology 156-29, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125, USA.
The CyIIIa cytoskeletal actin gene of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus is expressed specifically in the aboral ectoderm. In earlier work we identified a 2.3 kb cis-regulatory region that is necessary and sufficient for correct spatial and temporal expression of a CyIIIa.CAT gene. This region includes about 20 sites of specific protein-DNA interaction, at which at least nine different transcription factors may be bound. All except two of these factors have been cloned. In this work we have analyzed by deletion or mutagenesis each specific interaction. A specific function was identified for every binding site examined. These individual functions include control of amplitude and timing of expression at different phases of embryogenesis, and control of spatial expression. We show that particular negative regulatory interactions are required to repress expression of the CyIIIa.CAT construct in oral ectoderm and in skeletogenic mesenchyme at different stages. In further experiments we determined the overall functional organization of the CyIIIa cis-regulatory system, and we show that this system is modular in its regulatory structure. The 'proximal module' (with respect to the transcription start site) extends upstream for about 800 base pairs, and includes nine target sites serviced by six different transcription factors. Its major role is to establish CyIIIa expression in the aboral ectoderm territory as the blastomere founder cells are specified and the oral-aboral axis is determined, and to activate the CyIIIa gene late in cleavage. The 'middle module,' which lies upstream of the proximal module, acquires major control of CyIIIa function after the blastula stage. It includes six target sites, serviced by four different factors. The middle module is responsible for a sharp increase in expression occurring during gastrulation, mediated by the positively acting factors that bind within it. The middle module also includes sites at which two different negatively acting spatial control factors bind, the functions of which are required for correct spatial expression late in embryogenesis. The 'distal module' contains a number of sites at which a positively acting factor binds, but this module exercises no spatial regulatory function. Interactions within the distal module are required for the normal levels of function of both the proximal and middle modules.
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