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The pronotum LIM-HD gene tailup is both a positive and a negative regulator of the proneural genes achaete and scute of Drosophila

De Navascues Melero, Joaquin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5414-4056 and Modolell, Juan 2010. The pronotum LIM-HD gene tailup is both a positive and a negative regulator of the proneural genes achaete and scute of Drosophila. Mechanisms of Development 127 (9-12) , pp. 393-406. 10.1016/j.mod.2010.05.001

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Abstract

Early in the development of the imaginal wing disc of Drosophila, the LIM-HD gene tailup (islet), together with the HD genes of the iroquois complex, specify the notum territory of the disc. Later, tailup has been shown to act as a prepattern gene that antagonizes formation of sensory bristles on the notum of this fly. It has been proposed that Tailup downregulates the expression of the proneural genes achaete and scute by interfering with factors needed to activate these genes in the dorsocentral and scutellar regions of the disc. By means of a clonal analysis performed with tailup null alleles, here we show that, on the one hand, tailup is necessary to prevent formation of extra macrochaetae on most of the 11 sites where these landmark bristles arise on the fly notum. On the other hand, tailup is required to activate achaete and scute at the dorsocentral region, probably by acting as an hexameric complex with the cofactor Chip and the transcriptional activator Sspd on the dorsocentral enhancer of the achaete–scute complex. In contrast, in the scutellar region Tailup acts downstream of achaete–scute, antagonizing the proneural function of these genes probably in cooperation with Chip. We conclude that tailup acts on bristle development by several, even antagonistic, mechanisms.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Biosciences
European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute (ECSCRI)
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0925-4773
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2022 08:50
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/63559

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