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doi: 10.1242/10.1242/dev.00204
1 Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
2 EMBL, Gene Expression Programme, Meyerhofstr. 1, 69117, Heidelberg,
Germany
3 Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Spemannstr. 35/III, 72076
Tübingen, Germany
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: jkassis{at}mail.nih.gov)
Accepted 15 October 2002
Polycomb group proteins (PcG) repress homeotic genes in cells where these genes must remain inactive during Drosophila and vertebrate development. This repression depends on cis-acting silencer sequences, called Polycomb group response elements (PREs). Pleiohomeotic (Pho), the only known sequence-specific DNA-binding PcG protein, binds to PREs but pho mutants show only mild phenotypes compared with other PcG mutants. We characterize pho-like, a gene encoding a protein with high similarity to Pho. Pho-like binds to Pho-binding sites in vitro and pho-like, pho double mutants show more severe misexpression of homeotic genes than do the single mutants. These results suggest that Pho and Pho-like act redundantly to repress homeotic genes. We examined the distribution of five PcG proteins on polytene chromosomes from pho-like, pho double mutants. Pc, Psc, Scm, E(z) and Ph remain bound to polytene chromosomes at most sites in the absence of Pho and Pho-like. At a few chromosomal locations, however, some of the PcG proteins are no longer present in the absence of Pho and Pho-like, suggesting that Pho-like and Pho may anchor PcG protein complexes to only a subset of PREs. Alternatively, Pho-like and Pho may not participate in the anchoring of PcG complexes, but may be necessary for transcriptional repression mediated through PREs. In contrast to Pho and Pho-like, removal of Trithorax-like/GAGA factor or Zeste, two other DNA-binding proteins implicated in PRE function, does not cause misexpression of homeotic genes or reporter genes in imaginal disks.
Key words: Polycomb group genes, Gene silencing, Drosophila
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