2005年4月
The homeoproteins MAB-18 and CEH-14 insulate the dauer collagen gene col-43 from activation by the adjacent promoter of the spermatheca gene sth-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
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- 巻
- 348
- 号
- 1
- 開始ページ
- 101
- 終了ページ
- 112
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.01.045
- 出版者・発行元
- ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Genome searches in this study indicate that the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans genome has 2582 bidirectionally oriented genes that account for more than 25% of the total genes. We analyze the transcriptional repression system for one of these predicted bidirectional promoters, which controls the expression of the spermathecal gene sth-1 and collagen gene col-43. These two genes are separated by 1.3 kb and are transcribed bidirectionally. sth-1 is expressed in spermatheca after the L4 stage and col-43 is expressed in the hypodermal cells of the L2d dauer stage. The upstream regions required for the expression of sth-1 and col-43 shared an overlapped control sequence. Two homeoproteins, MAB-18 and CEH-14, were isolated by yeast one-hybrid screening as binding proteins of the overlapped region. MAB-18 bound to two homeodomain-binding sites and interacted with CEH-14 to repress col-43 expression in spermatheca. These results indicate that the two homeoproteins interact with each other to repress col-43 expression in sth-1-expressing tissues. This is the first report of bidirectional gene regulation analysis in the C. elegans genome. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- DOI : 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.01.045
- ISSN : 0022-2836
- eISSN : 1089-8638
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000228302500008