Involvement of winged eye encoding a chromatin-associated bromo-adjacent homology domain protein in disc specification.

ABSTRACT: How organ identity is determined is a fundamental question in developmental biology. In Drosophila, field-specific selector genes, such as eyeless (ey) for eyes and vestigial (vg) for wings, participate in the determination of imaginal disc-specific identity. We performed gain-of-function screening and identified a gene named winged eye (wge), which encodes a bromo-adjacent homology domain protein that localizes at specific sites on chromosomes in a bromo-adjacent homology domain-dependent manner. Overexpression of wge-induced ectopic wings with antero-posterior and dorso-ventral axes in the eye field in a region-specific Hox gene-(Antennapedia) independent manner. Overexpression of wge was sufficient for ectopic expression of vg in eye discs. A context-dependent requirement of wge was dem

SUBMITTER: Katsuyama T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1276095 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature