Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1998
Originally Published In
Cryderman DE, Cuaycong MH, Elgin SC, Wallrath LL. Characterization of sequences associated with position-effect variegation at pericentric sites in Drosophila heterochromatin. Chromosoma. 1998;107(5):277–285. doi:10.1007/s004120050309
Abstract
In a variety of organisms, euchromatic genes brought into juxtaposition with pericentric heterochromatin show position-effect variegation (PEV), a silencing of gene expression in a subset of the cells in which the gene is normally expressed. Previously, a P-element mobilization screen identified transgenic Drosophila stocks showing PEV of an hsp70-white+ reporter gene; transgenes in many of these stocks map to the chromocenter of polytene chromosome. A screen at an elevated temperature identified two stocks that under standard culture temperatures show complete repression of the hsp70-white+ transgene. The transgenes in both cases map to the chromocenter of polytene chromosomes. Different types of middle repetitive elements are adjacent to seven pericentric transgenes; unique sequences are adjacent to two of the perimetric transgenes. All of the transgenes show suppression of PEV in response to a mutation in the gene encoding heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1). This suppression correlates with a more accessible chromatin structure. The results indicate that a pericentric transgene showing PEV can be associated with different types of DNA sequences, while maintaining a common association with the chromosomal protein HP1.
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5176-2510 [Elgin]
Recommended Citation
Cryderman, D; Cuaycong, M; Elgin, Sarah C.R.; and Wallrath, L, "Characterization of sequences associated with position-effect variegation at pericentric sites in Drosophila heterochromatin" (1998). Biology Faculty Publications & Presentations. 209.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/bio_facpubs/209
Comments
© Springer-Verlag 1998