An intact RNA interference pathway is required for expression of the mutant wing phenotype ofvg21-3, aP-element-induced allele of thevestigialgene inDrosophila

Author:

Hodgetts Ross B.1,O’Keefe Sandra L.1,Anderson Kyle J.1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.

Abstract

We have determined that two P elements, P[21-3] and P[21r36], residing in the 5′-UTR of the vestigial wing gene, encode functional repressors in eye tissue. However, neither element fits a previous categorization of repressor-making elements as Type I or II. Both elements encode polypeptides that are shorter than the canonical elements they most closely resemble. DNA sequencing reveals that P[21r36] encodes an intact THAP domain that is missing in the P[21] element, which does not encode a functional repressor. Recovery of P[21-3] at sites other than vestigial (where it causes the wing mutant, vg21-3) reveals that the element can make repressor in wing tissue of sufficient activity to repress the mutant phenotype of vg21-3. Why the P[21-3] element fails to produce repressor when located at vestigial may be explained by our observation that three different mutants in the RNA interference pathway cause a partial reversion of vg21-3. We speculate that the vg and P-initiated transcripts that arise at the vg locus in the vg21-3mutant trigger an RNA interference response that results in the mutual degradation of both transcripts.

Publisher

Canadian Science Publishing

Subject

Genetics,Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Biotechnology

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