Shadow enhancers enable Hunchback bifunctionality in the Drosophila embryo

作者: Max V. Staller , Ben J. Vincent , Meghan D. J. Bragdon , Tara Lydiard-Martin , Zeba Wunderlich

DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.1413877112

关键词: EmbryoDNA-binding proteinCell biologyEnhancer trapTranscription factorBlastodermDrosophila ProteinBiologyGeneticsEnhancerEnhancer RNAs

摘要: Hunchback (Hb) is a bifunctional transcription factor that activates and represses distinct enhancers. Here, we investigate the hypothesis Hb can activate repress same enhancer. Computational models predicted bifunctionally regulates even-skipped (eve) stripe 3+7 enhancer (eve3+7) in Drosophila blastoderm embryos. We measured modeled eve expression at cellular resolution under multiple genetic perturbations found eve3+7 could not explain endogenous 7 behavior. Instead, controlled by two enhancers: canonical sequence encompassing minimal 2 (eve2+7). 7, but it executes these activities on different pieces of regulatory DNA--it eve2+7 These "shadow enhancers" use logic to create pattern.

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