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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-4-18
pubmed:abstractText
Mutations in grauzone or cortex cause abnormal arrest in Drosophila female meiosis. We cloned grauzone and identified it as a C2H2-type zinc finger transcription factor. The grauzone transcript is present in ovaries and at later developmental stages. A Grauzone-GFP fusion protein is functional and localizes to nuclei of both nurse cells and follicle cells during oogenesis. Three lines of evidence indicate that grauzone and cortex interact: reducing cortex function enhanced the grauzone mutant phenotype; cortex transcript abundance is reduced in the absence of grauzone function and Grauzone protein binds to the cortex promoter. These results demonstrate that activation of cortex transcription by grauzone is necessary for the completion of meiosis in Drosophila oocytes, and establish a new pathway that specifically regulates the female meiotic cell cycle.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0950-1991
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
127
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1243-51
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Alleles, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Drosophila, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Drosophila Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Genes, Insect, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Green Fluorescent Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Insect Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Luminescent Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Meiosis, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Oocytes, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Oogenesis, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Recombinant Fusion Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:10683177-Zinc Fingers
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Completion of meiosis in Drosophila oocytes requires transcriptional control by grauzone, a new zinc finger protein.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pharmacology, Programs in Genetics and Molecular & Cellular Biology, University at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8651, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.