Heterochromatic trans-inactivation of Drosophila white transgenes

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 671-677

  Martin Morris, Linda E ^a,c   Csink, Amy K ^a   Dorer, Douglas R ^a,d   Talbert, Paul B ^a   Henikoff, Steven ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE LOCATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENES, DOMINANT; HETEROCHROMATIN; INSECT PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSGENES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; ZOSTEROPIDAE;

EID: 0030777329     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. BICKEL., S., and V. PIRROTTA, 1990 Self-association of the Drosophila zeste protein is responsible for transvection effects. EMBO J. 9: 2959-2967.
2. CSINK, A. K., and S. HENIKOFF, 1996 Genetic modification of heterochromatic associations and nuclear organization in Drosophila. Nature 381: 529-531.
3. CSINK, A. K., R. LINSK and J. A. BIRCHLER, 1994 The Lighten up (Lip) gene of Drosophila melanogaster, a modifier of retroelement expression, position effect variegation and white locus insertion alleles. Genetics 138: 153-163.
4. DANIELS, S. B., and A. CHOVNICK, 1993 P element transposition in Drosophila melanogaster: an analysis of sister-chromatid pairs and the formation of intragenic secondary insertions during meiosis. Genetics 133: 623-636.
5. DERNBURG, A. F., K. W. BORMAN, J. C. FUNG, W. F. MARSHALL, J. PHILIPS et al., 1996 Perturbation of nuclear architecture by long-distance chromosome interactions. Cell 85: 745-759.
6. DORER, D. R., and S. HENIKOFF, 1994 Expansions of transgene repeats cause heterochromatin formation and gene silencing in Drosophila. Cell 77: 993-1002.
7. DORER, D. R., and S. HENIKOFF, 1997 Transgene repeat arrays interact with distant heterochromatin and cause silencing in cis and trans. Genetics (in press).
8. DREESEN, T. D., S. HENIKOFF and K. LOUGHNEY, 1991 A pairing-sensitive element that mediates trans-inactivation is associated with the Drosophila brown gene. Genes Dev. 5: 331-340.
9. ELGIN, S. C., 1996 Heterochromatin and gene regulation in Drosophila. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 6: 193-202.
10. GLASS, H. B., 1933 A study of dominant mosaic eye colour mutants in Drosophila melanogaster. II. Tests involving crossing-over and non-disjunction. J. Genet. 28: 69-112.
11. GOLIC, K. G., and M. M. GOLIC, 1996 Engineering the Drosophila genome: chromosome rearrangements by design. Genetics 144: 1693-1711.
12. GRIGLIATTI, T., 1991 Position-effect variegation - an assay for non-histone chromosomal proteins and chromatin assembly and modifying factors. pp. 587-627 in Functional Organization of the Nucleus: A Laboratory Guide, edited by B. A. HAMKALO, and S. C. R. ELGIN. Academic Press, San Diego.
13. HENIKOFF, S., 1996 Position-effect variegation in Drosophila: recent progress, pp. 319-334 in Epigenetics, edited by R. MARTIENSSEN, A. RIGGS and V. E. A. RUSSO. Cold Spring Harbor Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
14. HENIKOFF, S., and T. D. DREESEN, 1989 Trans-inactivation of the Drosophila brown gene: evidence for transcriptional repression and somatic pairing dependence. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86: 6704-6708.
15. Dominant heterochromatic element in Drosophila. Genetics 140: 1007-1017.
16. HIRAOKA, Y., A. S. DERNBURG, S. J. PARMELEE, M. C. RYKOWSKI, D. A. AGARD et al., 1993 The onset of homologous chromosome pairing during Drosophila melanogaster embryogenesis. J. Cell Biol. 120: 591-600.
17. JUDD, B. H., 1988 Transvection: allelic cross talk. Cell 53: 841-843.
18. KOPCZYNSKI, C. C., and M. A. T. MUSKAVITCH, 1992 Introns excised from the Delta primary transcript are localized near sites of Delta transcription. J. Cell Biol. 119: 503-512.
19. LEVIS, R., T. HAZELRIGG and G. M. RUBIN, 1985 Separable cis-acting control elements for expression of the white gene of Drosophila. EMBO J. 4: 3489-3499.
20. LIFSCHYTZ, K., and D. HAREVEN, 1982 Heterochromatin markers: arrangement of obligatory heterochromatin, histone genes and multisite gene families in the interphase nucleus of D. melanogaster. Chromosoma 86: 443-455.
21. LOHE, A. R., and A. J. HILLIKER, 1995 Return of the H-word (heterochromatin). Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 5: 746-755.
22. is system in Drosophila melanogaster. Hereditas 119: 209-218.
23. ROBERTSON, H. M., C. R. PRESTON, R. W. PHILLIS, D. M. JOHNSONSCHLITZ, W. K. BENZ et al., 1988 A stable genomic source of P element transposase in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 118: 461-470.
24. SPOFFORD, J. B., 1976 Position-effect variegation in Drosophila. pp. 955-1019, in Genetics and Biology of Drosophila, edited by M. ASHBURNER, and E. NOVITSKI. Academic Press, London.
25. Dominant by linkage alterations. Genetics 136: 559-571.
26. TARTOF, K, D., and S. HENIKOEF, 1991 Trans-sensing effects from Drosophila to humans. Cell 65: 201-203.
27. WEILER, K. S., and B. T. WAKIMOTO, 1995 Heterochromatin and gene expression in Drosophila. Annu. Rev. Genet. 29: 577-605.
28. WINES, D. R., and S. HENIKOFF, 1992 Somatic instability of a Drosophila chromosome. Genetics 131: 683-691.
29. WINES, D. R., P. B. TALBERT, D. V. CLARK and S. HENIKOFF, 1996 Introduction of a DNA methyltransferase in Drosophila to probe chromatin structure in vivo. Chromosoma 104: 332-340.