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Arts & Sciences

Author's Department

Biology

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-1990

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Glaser RL, Thomas GH, Siegfried E, Elgin SC, Lis JT. Optimal heat-induced expression of the Drosophila hsp26 gene requires a promoter sequence containing (CT)n.(GA)n repeats. J Mol Biol. 1990;211(4):751–761. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(90)90075-W

Abstract

We report here the analysis of the sequence requirements for the heat-induced expression of the Drosophila melanogaster hsp26 gene using germline transformation. Heat-induced expression is augmented fivefold by a homopurine/homopyrimidine region from -85 to -134 that is devoid of heat-shock elements but contains numerous (dC-dT).(dG-dA) repeats. Sequences within this interval have been shown to assume a nuclease S1-hypersensitive structure in vitro. In this paper, we extend those in vitro observations, demonstrating that the S1-hypersensitive structure is triple-helical H-DNA formed by a symmetric (dC-dT).(dG-dA) sequence. Thus, the sequences that form H-DNA in vitro are also required in vivo for optimal hsp26 transcription. However, mutational analysis and diethylpyrocarbonate modification experiments in isolated nuclei suggest that the (dC-dT).(dG-dA) sequence does not form H-DNA in vivo and argue against a role for H-DNA in the heat-induced expression of hsp26.

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© 1990 Academic Press Limited

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5176-2510 [Elgin]

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