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Mariano-Martins P, Monfardini RD, Lo-Man-Hung N, Torres TT. Evidence of positive selection on six spider developmental genes. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY. PART B, MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION 2022; 338:314-322. [PMID: 34985811 DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.23119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2020] [Revised: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 12/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Spiders constitute more than 49,000 described species distributed all over the world, and all ecological environments. Their order, Araneae, is defined by a set of characteristics with no parallel among their arachnid counterparts (e.g., spinnerets, silk glands, chelicerae that inoculate venom, among others). Changes in developmental pathways often underlie the evolution of morphological synapomorphies, and as such spiders are a promising model to study the role of developmental genes in the origin of evolutionary novelties. With that in mind, we investigated changes in the evolutionary regime of a set of six developmental genes, using spiders as our model. The genes were mainly chosen for their roles in spinneret ontogeny, yet they are pleiotropic, and it is likely that the origins of other unique morphological phenotypes are also linked to changes in their sequences. Our results indicate no great differences in the selective pressures on those genes when comparing spiders to other arachnids, but a few site-specific positive selection evidence were found in the Araneae lineage. These findings lead us to new insights on spider evolution that are to be further tested.
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- Pedro Mariano-Martins
- Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo - SP, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo - SP, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo - SP, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo - SP, Brazil
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Expression of Abdominal-B in the brine shrimp, Artemia franciscana, expands our evolutionary understanding of the crustacean abdomen. Dev Biol 2022; 489:178-184. [PMID: 35732224 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2022.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Revised: 04/19/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The brine shrimp, Artemia franciscana, has a body plan composed of 11 thoracic segments, followed by 2 genital segments, and then 6 additional abdominal segments. Previous studies of Artemia reported that expression of the posterior-most Hox gene, Abdominal-B (Abd-B), is restricted to the genital segments and is not observed posteriorly in the abdomen at any developmental stage. This report was remarkable because it suggested that the Artemia abdomen posterior to the genital segments was a novel body region of 6 segments that bore no homology to any region in other crustaceans and was unique amongst arthropods in being a Hox-free segmented domain outside of the head. In this study, we used RT-PCR, antibody staining, and in situ hybridization on various stages of Artemia nauplii to show that Abd-B mRNA and protein are in fact expressed throughout the abdominal segments during Artemia development, but this expression later retracts to the two genital segments (G1, G2) and the T11 appendages. This suggests that Abd-B does play a role in specifying abdominal segment identity in all crustaceans that have been examined and suggests a common evolutionary origin for the crustacean abdomen.
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Hox genes limit germ cell formation in the short germ insect Gryllus bimaculatus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:16430-16435. [PMID: 31346080 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1816024116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Hox genes are conserved transcription factor-encoding genes that specify the identity of body regions in bilaterally symmetrical animals. In the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, a member of the hemimetabolous insect group Orthoptera, the induction of a subset of mesodermal cells to form the primordial germ cells (PGCs) is restricted to the second through the fourth abdominal segments (A2 to A4). In numerous insect species, the Hox genes Sex-combs reduced (Scr), Antennapedia (Antp), Ultrabithorax (Ubx), and abdominal-A (abd-A) jointly regulate the identities of middle and posterior body segments, suggesting that these genes may restrict PGC formation to specific abdominal segments in G. bimaculatus Here we show that reducing transcript levels of some or all of these Hox genes results in supernumerary and/or ectopic PGCs, either individually or in segment-specific combinations, suggesting that the role of these Hox genes is to limit PGC development with respect to their number, segmental location, or both. These data provide evidence of a role for this ancient group of genes in PGC development.
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Beh CY, El-Sharnouby S, Chatzipli A, Russell S, Choo SW, White R. Roles of cofactors and chromatin accessibility in Hox protein target specificity. Epigenetics Chromatin 2016; 9:1. [PMID: 26753000 PMCID: PMC4705621 DOI: 10.1186/s13072-015-0049-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2015] [Accepted: 12/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Background The regulation of specific target genes by transcription factors is central to our understanding of gene network control in developmental and physiological processes yet how target specificity is achieved is still poorly understood. This is well illustrated by the Hox family of transcription factors as their limited in vitro DNA-binding specificity contrasts with their clear in vivo functional specificity. Results We generated genome-wide binding profiles for three Hox proteins, Ubx, Abd-A and Abd-B, following transient expression in Drosophila Kc167 cells, revealing clear target specificity and a striking influence of chromatin accessibility. In the absence of the TALE class homeodomain cofactors Exd and Hth, Ubx and Abd-A bind at a very similar set of target sites in accessible chromatin, whereas Abd-B binds at an additional specific set of targets. Provision of Hox cofactors Exd and Hth considerably modifies the Ubx genome-wide binding profile enabling Ubx to bind at an additional novel set of targets. Both the Abd-B specific targets and the cofactor-dependent Ubx targets are in chromatin that is relatively DNase1 inaccessible prior to the expression of Hox proteins/Hox cofactors. Conclusions Our experiments demonstrate a strong role for chromatin accessibility in Hox protein binding and suggest that Hox protein competition with nucleosomes has a major role in Hox protein target specificity in vivo. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13072-015-0049-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Ching Yew Beh
- Department of Oral Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DY UK
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- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DY UK.,Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EH UK
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- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EH UK.,Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QR UK
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- Department of Oral Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DY UK
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Sambrani N, Pradel J, Graba Y. Distinct genetic requirements for BX-C-mediated specification of abdominal denticles. Dev Dyn 2014; 243:192-200. [DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.24081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2013] [Revised: 10/09/2013] [Accepted: 10/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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- CNRS; Aix Marseille Université; Marseille France
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Hsia CC, Paré AC, Hannon M, Ronshaugen M, McGinnis W. Silencing of an abdominal Hox gene during early development is correlated with limb development in a crustacean trunk. Evol Dev 2010; 12:131-43. [PMID: 20433454 DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142x.2010.00399.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We tested whether Artemia abd-A could repress limbs in Drosophila embryos, and found that although abd-A transcripts were produced, ABD-A protein was not. Similarly, developing Artemia epidermal cells showed expression of abd-A transcripts without accumulation of ABD-A protein. This finding in Artemia reveals a new variation in Hox gene function that is associated with morphological evolution. In this case, a HOX protein expression pattern is completely absent during early development, although the HOX protein is expressed at later stages in the central nervous system in a "homeotic-like" pattern. The combination of an absence of ABD-A protein expression in the Artemia limb primordia and the weak repressive function of Artemia UBX protein on the limb-promoting gene Dll are likely to be two reasons why homonomous limbs develop throughout the entire Artemia trunk.
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- Cheryl C Hsia
- Division of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Dixit R, Vijayraghavan K, Bate M. Hox genes and the regulation of movement in Drosophila. Dev Neurobiol 2008; 68:309-16. [PMID: 18044732 DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Many animals show regionally specialized patterns of movement along the body axis. In vertebrates, spinal networks regulate locomotion, while the brainstem controls movements of respiration and feeding. Similarly, amongst invertebrates diversification of appendages along the body axis is tied to the performance of characteristically different movements such as those required for feeding, locomotion, and respiration. Such movements require locally specialized networks of nerves and muscles. Here we use the regionally differentiated movements of larval crawling in Drosophila to investigate how the formation of a locally specialized locomotor network is genetically determined. By loss and gain of function experiments we show that particular Hox gene functions are necessary and sufficient to dictate the formation of a neuromuscular network that orchestrates the movements of peristaltic locomotion.
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- Richa Dixit
- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560065, India
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Foronda D, Estrada B, de Navas L, Sánchez-Herrero E. Requirement of Abdominal-A and Abdominal-B in the developing genitalia of Drosophila breaks the posterior downregulation rule. Development 2005; 133:117-27. [PMID: 16319117 DOI: 10.1242/dev.02173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The genitalia of Drosophila derive from the genital disc and require the activity of the Abdominal-B (Abd-B) Hox gene. This gene encodes two different proteins, Abd-B M and Abd-B R. We show here that the embryonic genital disc, like the larval genital disc, is formed by cells from the eighth (A8), ninth (A9) and tenth (A10) abdominal segments, which most likely express the Abd-B M, Abd-B R and Caudal products, respectively. Abd-B m is needed for the development of A8 derivatives such as the external and internal female genitalia, the latter also requiring abdominal-A (abd-A), whereas Abd-B r shapes male genitalia (A9 in males). Although Abd-B r represses Abd-B m in the embryo, in at least part of the male A9 such regulation does not occur. In the male A9, some Abd-B m(-)r(-) or Abd-B r(-) clones activate Distal-less and transform part of the genitalia into leg or antenna. In the female A8, many Abd-B m(-)r(-) mutant clones produce similar effects, and also downregulate or eliminate abdominal-A expression. By contrast, although Abd-B m is the main or only Abd-B transcript present in the female A8, Abd-B m(-) clones induced in this primordium do not alter Distal-less or abd-A expression, and transform the A8 segment into the A4. The relationship between Abd-B and abd-A in the female genital disc is opposite to that of the embryonic epidermis, and contravenes the rule that posteriorly expressed Hox genes downregulate more anterior ones.
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- David Foronda
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (C.S.I.C.-U.A.M. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Merabet S, Kambris Z, Capovilla M, Bérenger H, Pradel J, Graba Y. The hexapeptide and linker regions of the AbdA Hox protein regulate its activating and repressive functions. Dev Cell 2003; 4:761-8. [PMID: 12737810 DOI: 10.1016/s1534-5807(03)00126-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The Hox family transcription factors control diversified morphogenesis during development and evolution. They function in concert with Pbc cofactor proteins. Pbc proteins bind the Hox hexapeptide (HX) motif and are thereby thought to confer DNA binding specificity. Here we report that mutation of the AbdA HX motif does not alter its binding site selection but does modify its transregulatory properties in a gene-specific manner in vivo. We also show that a short, evolutionarily conserved motif, PFER, in the homeodomain-HX linker region acts together with the HX to control an AbdA activation/repression switch. Our in vivo data thus reveal functions not previously anticipated from in vitro analyses for the hexapeptide motif in the regulation of Hox activity.
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- Samir Merabet
- Laboratoire de Génétique et Physiologie du Développement, IBDM, CNRS, Université de la méditerranée, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, Case 907, 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France
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In recent years researchers have analyzed the expression patterns of the Hox genes in a multitude of arthropod species, with the hope of understanding the mechanisms at work in the evolution of the arthropod body plan. Now, with Hox expression data representing all four major groups of arthropods (chelicerates, myriapods, crustaceans, and insects), it seems appropriate to summarize the results and take stock of what has been learned. In this review we summarize the expression and functional data regarding the 10 arthropod Hox genes: labial proboscipedia, Hox3/zen, Deformed, Sex combs reduced, fushi tarazu, Antennapedia, Ultrabithorax, abdominal-A, and Abdominal-B. In addition, we discuss mechanisms of developmental evolutionary change thought to be important for the emergence of novel morphological features within the arthropods.
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- Cynthia L Hughes
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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Miller DF, Holtzman SL, Kalkbrenner A, Kaufman TC. Homeotic Complex (Hox) gene regulation and homeosis in the mesoderm of the Drosophila melanogaster embryo: the roles of signal transduction and cell autonomous regulation. Mech Dev 2001; 102:17-32. [PMID: 11287178 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4773(01)00300-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In this paper we evaluate homeosis and Homeotic Complex (Hox) regulatory hierarchies in the somatic and visceral mesoderm. We demonstrate that both Hox control of signal transduction and cell autonomous regulation are critical for establishing normal Hox expression patterns and the specification of segmental identity and morphology. We present data identifying novel regulatory interactions associated with the segmental register shift in Hox expression domains between the epidermis/somatic mesoderm and visceral mesoderm. A proposed mechanism for the gap between the expression domains of Sex combs reduced (Scr) and Antennapedia (Antp) in the visceral mesoderm is provided. Previously, Hox gene interactions have been shown to occur on multiple levels: direct cross-regulation, competition for binding sites at downstream targets and through indirect feedback involving signal transduction. We find that extrinsic specification of cell fate by signaling can be overridden by Hox protein expression in mesodermal cells and propose the term autonomic dominance for this phenomenon.
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- D F Miller
- Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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Chauvet S, Merabet S, Bilder D, Scott MP, Pradel J, Graba Y. Distinct hox protein sequences determine specificity in different tissues. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:4064-9. [PMID: 10737765 PMCID: PMC18149 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.070046997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Hox genes encode evolutionarily conserved transcription factors that control the morphological diversification along the anteroposterior (A/P) body axis. Expressed in precise locations in the ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm, Hox proteins have distinct regulatory activities in different tissues. How Hox proteins achieve tissue-specific functions and why cells lying at equivalent A/P positions but in different germ layers have distinctive responses to the same Hox protein remains to be determined. Here, we examine this question by identifying parts of Hox proteins necessary for Hox function in different tissues. Available genetic markers allow the regulatory effects of two Hox proteins, Abdominal-A (AbdA) and Ultrabithorax (Ubx), to be distinguished in the Drosophila embryonic epidermis and visceral mesoderm (VM). Chimeric Ubx/AbdA proteins were tested in both tissues and used to identify protein sequences that endow AbdA with a different target gene specificity from Ubx. We found that distinct protein sequences define AbdA, as opposed to Ubx, function in the epidermis vs. the VM. These sequences lie mostly outside the homeodomain (HD), emphasizing the importance of non-HD residues for specific Hox activities. Hox tissue specificity is therefore achieved by sensing distinct Hox protein structures in different tissues.
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- S Chauvet
- Laboratoire de Génétique et Biologie du Développement, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Université de la Méditerranée, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, Case 907, 13288 Marseille, France
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Ursuliak Z, Clemens JC, Dixon JE, Price JV. Differential accumulation of DPTP61F alternative transcripts: regulation of a protein tyrosine phosphatase by segmentation genes. Mech Dev 1997; 65:19-30. [PMID: 9256342 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4773(97)00046-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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DPTP61F is a non-receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase that is expressed during Drosophila oogenesis and embryogenesis. DPTP61F transcripts are alternatively spliced to produce two isoforms of the protein which are targeted to different subcellular locations. DPTP61Fn accumulates in the nucleus, and DPTP61Fm associates with the membranes of the reticular network and the mitochondria. We have examined the spatial and temporal expression of the two alternative transcripts of dptp61F during Drosophila embryogenesis. Our observations indicate that the two isoforms are expressed in distinct patterns. The DPTP61Fn transcript is expressed in the mesoderm and neuroblast layer during germband extension and later in the gut epithelia. In comparison, the transcript encoding DPTP61Fm accumulates in 16 segmentally repeated stripes in the ectoderm during germband extension. These stripes are flanked by, and adjacent to, the domains of engrailed and wingless gene expression in the anterior/posterior axis. In stage 10 embryos, the domains of DPTP61Fm transcript accumulation are wedge shaped and roughly coincide with the area lateral to the denticle belts that will give rise to naked cuticle. The DPTP61Fm transcript is also expressed later in embryogenesis in the central nervous system. The segmental modulation of DPTP61Fm transcript accumulation in the A/P axis of the germband is regulated by the pair-rule genes, and the intrasegmental pattern of transcript accumulation is regulated by the segment polarity genes.
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- Z Ursuliak
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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Keegan LP, Haerry TE, Crotty DA, Packer AI, Wolgemuth DJ, Gehring WJ. A sequence conserved in vertebrate Hox gene introns functions as an enhancer regulated by posterior homeotic genes in Drosophila imaginal discs. Mech Dev 1997; 63:145-57. [PMID: 9203138 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4773(97)00038-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The intron of the mouse Hoxa-4 gene acts as a strong homeotic response element in Drosophila melanogaster leg imaginal discs. This activity depends on homeodomain binding sites present within a 30 bp conserved element, HB1, in the intron. A similar arrangement of homeodomain binding sites is found in many other potential homeotic target genes. HB1 activity in Drosophila imaginal discs is activated by Antennapedia and more posterior homeotic genes, but is not activated by more anterior genes. Testing a reporter gene construct with mutated binding sites in mouse embryos shows that HB1 is also active in the expression domains of posterior Hox genes in the mouse neural tube.
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- L P Keegan
- Department of Cell Biology, Basel University Biozentrum, Switzerland
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The homeobox gene extradenticle (exd) acts as a cofactor of the homeotic genes in the specification of larval patterns during embryogenesis. To study its role in adult patterns, we have generated clones of mutant exd- cells and examined their effect on the different body parts. In some regions, exd- clones exhibit homeotic transformations similar to those produced by known homeotic mutations such as Ultrabithorax (Ubx), labial (lab), spineless-aristapedia (ssa) or Antennapedia (Antp). In other regions, the lack of exd causes novel homeotic transformations producing ectopic eyes and legs. Moreover, exd is also required for functions normally not associated with homeosis, such as the maintenance of the dorsoventral pattern, the specification of subpatterns in adult appendages or the arrangement of bristles in the mesonotum and genitalia. Our findings indicate that exd is critically involved in adult morphogenesis, not only in the homeotic function but also in several other developmental processes.
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Homeotic genes identify structures along the anterior to posterior axis during the development of most animals. These genes are clustered into complexes, and their positions within the cluster correlates with their time of expression and the positions of the anterioposterior boundaries of their expression domains. Functional analyses have revealed that this specific genetic order also coincides with a functional hierarchy among members of these complexes, so that the products of more posterior genes in the cluster tend to be prevalent over those of more anterior genes.
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- D Duboule
- Département de Zoologie et Biologie Animale, Université de Genève, Switzerland
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