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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
26
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-2-2
pubmed:abstractText
Changes in levels of transcription can be difficult to gauge in animals with lethal mutations. For example, mutations in a regulatory region of an essential gene can have secondary consequences that complicate attempts to quantify the transcripts produced by the mutant gene. We describe a method that circumvents this problem by revealing the relative amount of transcript produced from each allele in a heterozygote. With this method, recessive lethal mutations can be analyzed in animals that are phenotypically wild type. We used this technique to analyze mutations in the regulatory region of the Drosophila engrailed gene and found that truncations reduce transcription to levels that depend both upon the tissue and upon the location of the chromosomal break. We also found that these mutations affect expression of the linked invected gene, suggesting that engrailed and invected share a complex set of regulatory elements that operate over at least 85 kb. We suggest that this technique will have general utility for the quantitation of allele-specific transcripts, even when amounts of tissue are limiting.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
91
pubmed:geneSymbol
en
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
12696-700
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Allele-specific quantification of Drosophila engrailed and invected transcripts.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco 94143.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.