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Redundant mechanisms mediate bristle patterning on the Drosophila thorax.


ABSTRACT: The thoracic bristle pattern of Drosophila results from the spatially restricted expression of the achaete-scute (ac-sc) genes in clusters of cells, mediated by the activity of many discrete cis-regulatory sequences. However, ubiquitous expression of sc or asense (ase) achieved with a heterologous promoter, in the absence of endogenous ac-sc expression, and the activity of the cis-regulatory elements, allows the development of bristles positioned at wild-type locations. We demonstrate that the products of the genes stripe, hairy, and extramacrochaetae contribute to rescue by antagonizing the activity of Sc and Ase. The three genes are expressed in specific but overlapping spatial domains of expression that form a prepattern that allows precise positioning of bristles. The redundant mechanisms might contribute to the robustness of the pattern. We discuss the possibility that patterning in trans by antagonism is ancestral and that the positional cis-regulatory sequences might be of recent origin.

SUBMITTER: Usui K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2629283 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Redundant mechanisms mediate bristle patterning on the Drosophila thorax.

Usui Kazuya K   Goldstone Claire C   Gibert Jean-Michel JM   Simpson Pat P  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20081222 51


The thoracic bristle pattern of Drosophila results from the spatially restricted expression of the achaete-scute (ac-sc) genes in clusters of cells, mediated by the activity of many discrete cis-regulatory sequences. However, ubiquitous expression of sc or asense (ase) achieved with a heterologous promoter, in the absence of endogenous ac-sc expression, and the activity of the cis-regulatory elements, allows the development of bristles positioned at wild-type locations. We demonstrate that the p  ...[more]

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