ISSN:
0192-253X
Keywords:
Intron
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Alcohol dehydrogenase
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Enhancer
;
Promoter
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Life and Medical Sciences
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Genetics
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
We have used in vitro mutagenesis and somatic transformation [Sofer and Martin, 1987a; Martin et al., 1986] to investigate the role of cis-acting sequences in the control of alcohol dehydrogenase gene expression in larvae of Drosophila melanogaster. Two sets of experiments were carried out. In the first, a series of aeletions were constructed in the region upstream of the proximal transcriptional start site. In the second, one or both introns were removed from within the structural gene. These constructs (on circular plasmids) were injected into Adh-null embryos and ADH activity was assayed in third instar larvae of the injected generation. The first set of experiments indicated that there are at least three distinct regulatory regions essential for larval activity located in the 5′ flanking region of the gene. One, in an area that includes the TATA box, was found to be necessary but not sufficient for larval ADH activity. Two others, further upstream, seemed to have enhancer-like properties because their absence could be compensated by a second copy of the Adh gene on the same plasmid molecule. The second set of experiments showed that neither the tis-sue distribution nor amount of ADH activity was affected by the removal of one or both introns from the Adh gene.
Additional Material:
4 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dvg.1020100310
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