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SUBMITTER: Hamaji T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4889651 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 20160601 6
Upon fertilization Chlamydomonas reinhardtii zygotes undergo a program of differentiation into a diploid zygospore that is accompanied by transcription of hundreds of zygote-specific genes. We identified a distinct sequence motif we term a zygotic response element (ZYRE) that is highly enriched in promoter regions of C reinhardtii early zygotic genes. A luciferase reporter assay was used to show that native ZYRE motifs within the promoter of zygotic gene ZYS3 or intron of zygotic gene DMT4 are n ...[more]