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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3-4
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-7-1
pubmed:abstractText
The murine HOXA-2 protein shares amino acid sequence similarity with Drosophila Proboscipedia (PB). In this paper, we test whether HOXA-2 and PB are functionally equivalent in Drosophila. In Drosophila, PB inhibits SCR activity required for larval T1 beard formation and adult tarsus formation and is required for maxillary palp and proboscis formation. HOXA-2 expressed from a heat-shock promoter weakly suppressed SCR activity required for T1 beard formation. But interestingly neither PB nor HOXA-2 expressed from a heat-shock promoter suppressed murine HOXA-5 activity, the murine SCR homologue, from inducing ectopic T1 beards in T2 and T3, indicating that HOXA-5 does not interact with PB. HOXA-2 activity expressed from the Tubulin alpha 1 promoter modified the pb null phenotype resulting in a proboscis-to-arista transformation, indicating that HOXA-2 was able to suppress SCR activity required for tarsus formation. However, HOXA-2 expressed from a Tubulin alpha 1 promoter was unable to direct maxillary palp determination when either ectopically expressed in the antenna or in the maxillary palp primordia of a pb null mutant. HOXA-2 was also unable to rescue pseudotrachea formation in a pb null mutant. These results indicate that the only activity that PB and HOXA-2 weakly share is the inhibition of SCR activity, and that murine HOXA-5 and Drosophila SCR do not share inhibition by PB activity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0192-253X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
336-44
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Crosses, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Drosophila Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Drosophila melanogaster, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Extremities, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Genes, Homeobox, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Genes, Insect, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Homeodomain Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Insect Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Species Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Trans-Activators, pubmed-meshheading:10322642-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Analysis of murine HOXA-2 activity in Drosophila melanogaster.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. aperciva@julian.uwo.ca
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't