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The bithorax complex of Drosophila melanogaster: Underreplication and morphology in polytene chromosomes
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Moshkin, Yuri M.
Alekseyenko, A. A.
Semeshin, V. F.
Spierer, Anne
Spierer, Pierre
Makarevich, G. F.
Belyaeva, E. S.
Zhimulev, I. F.
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2001, vol. 98, no. 2, p. 570-4
Abstract The level of polyteny of the Drosophila salivary gland chromosomes was determined throughout the chromosome region 89E1-4, the locus of the Bithorax Complex. A zone of underreplication spans the 300 kb of DNA from the Ubx to Abd-B loci. From the centromere proximal end of the complex, a 70-kb-long gradual decrease of polytenization starts with the Ubx transcription unit and, after a floor corresponding to the abd-A locus, raises gradually back to the maximum over 70 kb in the region of the Abd-B transcription unit. In flies carrying the mutation Suppressor of DNA Underreplication [Su(UR)ES], the underreplication of the Bithorax Complex is fully suppressed. In the wild type, the Bithorax Complex forms a weak point featuring thinner bands separated by clefts or constrictions. In Su(UR)ES strain in contrast, the 89E1-4 band looks like a single solid band consisting of homogenous dense material. We speculate that the wild-type Su(UR)ES protein hampers DNA replication of silenced domains and leads to their underreplication in salivary gland polytene chromosomes.
Keywords Animals — Chromosomes/genetics/ultrastructure — DNA Replication — DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics — Drosophila Proteins — Drosophila melanogaster/genetics/growth & development/ultrastructure — Gene Expression Regulation — Gene Silencing — Genes, Homeobox — Genes, Insect — Genes, Suppressor — Heterochromatin/genetics/ultrastructure — Homeodomain Proteins/genetics — Insect Proteins/genetics/physiology — Larva — Microscopy, Electron — Nuclear Proteins — Salivary Glands/ultrastructure — Transcription Factors
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Faculté des sciences / Section de biologie / Département de génétique et évolution
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(ISO format) 		MOSHKIN, Yuri M. et al. The bithorax complex of Drosophila melanogaster: Underreplication and morphology in polytene chromosomes. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2001, vol. 98, n° 2, p. 570-4. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:9878

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