Sequence-specific interaction between ABD-B homeodomain and castor gene in Drosophila

BMB Reports

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 92-97

  Kim, Keon Hee ^a   Yoo, Siuk ^a  

^a Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Abdominal B; Castor; EMSA; Homeodomain; Homeotic gene

Indexed keywords

ABD B PROTEINS, DROSOPHILA; ABD-B PROTEINS, DROSOPHILA; CASTOR PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KINETICS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84894640561     PISSN: 19766696     EISSN: 1976670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5483/BMBRep.2014.47.2.117     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Sharkey, M., Graba, Y. and Scott, M. P. (1997) Hox genes in evolution: protein surfaces and paralog groups. Trands in Genet. 13, 145-151.
2. McGinnis, W. and Krumlauf, R. (1992) Homeobox genes and axial patterning. Cell 24, 283-302.
3. Mann, R. S. and Morata, G. (2000) The developmental and molecular biology of genes that subdivide the body of Drosophila. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 16, 243-271.
4. Sanchez-Herrero, E., Vernós, I., Marco, R. and Morata, G. (1985) Genetic organization of Drosophila bithorax complex. Nature 313, 108-113.
5. Tiong, S., Bone, L. M. and Whittle, J. R. S. (1985) Recessive lethal mutations within the bithrax complex in Drosophila. Mol. Gen. Genet. 200, 335-342.
6. Laughon, A. (1991) DNA binding specificity of HDs. Biochemistry 30, 11357-11367.
7. Affolter, M., Percival-Smith, A., Müller, M., Leupin, W. and Gehring, W. J. (1990) DNA binding properties of the purified Antennapedia homeodomain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 87, 4093-4097.
8. Ekker, S. C., Young, K. E., von Kessler, D. P. and Beachy P. A. (1991) Optimal DNA sequence recognition by the Ultrabithorax homeodomain of Drosophila. EMBO J. 10, 1179-1186.
9. Yoo, S. (2010) Kinetic analysis of Drosophila Vnd protein containing homeodomain with its target sequence. BMB Rep. 43, 407-412.
10. Ekker, S. C., Jackson, D. G., von Kessler, D. P., Sun, B. I., Young, K. E. and Beachy, P. A. (1994) The degree of variation in DNA sequence recognition among four Drosophila homeotic proteins. EMBO J. 13, 3551-3560.
11. Lovegrove, B., Simoes, S., Rivas, M. L., Sotillos, S., Johnson, K., Knust, E., Jacinto, A. and Hombria, J. C.-G. (2006) Coordinated control of cell adhesion, polarity, and cytoskeleton underlies Hox-induced organogenesis in Drosophila. Curr. Biol. 16, 2206-2216.
12. Celniker, S. E., Keelan, D. J. and Lewis, E. B. (1989) The molecular genetics of the bithorax complex of Drosophila: characterization of the products of the Abdominal-B domain. Genes Dev. 3, 1424-1436.
13. Delorenzi, M. and Bienz, M. (1990) Expression of Abdominal-B homeoproteins in Drosophila embryos. Development 108, 323-329.
14. Boulet, A. M., Llyoyd, A. and Sakonju, S. (1991) Molecular definition of the morphogenetic and regulatory functions and the cis-regulatory elements of the Drosophia Abd-B homeotic gene. Development 111, 393-405.
15. Mellerick, D. M., Kassis, J. A., Zhang, S. D. and Odenwald, W. F. (1992) Castor encodes a novel zinc finger protein required for the development of a subset of CNS neurons in Drosophila. Neuron 9, 789-803.
16. Cui, X. and Doe, C. Q. (1992) ming is expressed in neuroblast sublineages and regulates gene expression in the Drosophila central nervous system. Development 116, 943-952
17. Fontana, J. R. and Crews, S. T. (2012) Transcriptome analysis of Drosophila CNS midline cells reveals diverse peptidergic properties and a role for castor in neuronal differentiation. Dev. Biol. 372, 131-142.
18. Ahn, J.-H., Yoo, S., Park, H.-J., Jung, K.-l., Kim, S.-H. and Jeon, S.-H. (2010) Drosophila castor is regulated negatively by the Ubx and abdA genes, but positively by the AbdB gene. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 54, 1251-1258.
19. Jeong, S., Rokas, A. and Carroll, S. B. (2006) Regulation of body pigmentation by the Abdominal-B Hox protein and its gain and loss in Drosophila evolution. Cell 125, 1387-1399.
20. Kuzin, A., Kundu, M., Ross, J., Koizumi, K., Brody, T. and Odenwald, W. F. (2012) The cis-regulatory dynamics of the Drosophila CNS determinant castor are controlled by multiple sub-pattern enhancers. Gene Exp. Patterns 12, 261-272.
21. Casares, F., Calleja, M. and Sanchez-Herrero, E. (1996) Functional similarity in appendage specification by the Ultrabithorax and abdominal-A Drosophila Hox genes. EMBO J. 15, 3934-3942.
22. Foronda, D., Estrada, B., de Navas, L. and Sanchez-Herrero, E. (2005) Requirement of abdominal-A and Abdominal-B in the developing genitalia of Drosophila breaks the posterior downregulation rule. Development 133, 117-127.
23. Gruschus, J. M., Taso, D. H. H., Wang, L.-H., Nirenberg, M. and Ferretti, J. A. (1997) lnteraction of the vnd/NK-2 homeodomain with DNA by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy: Basis of binding specificity. Biochemistry 36, 5372-5380.
24. Yoo, G.-W. and Shin, C.-G. (2013) Biochemical characteristics of functional domains using feline foamy virus integrase mutants. BMB Rep. 46, 53-58.