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Enhancer trap infidelity in Drosophila optomotor-blind.

Lisa R Mayer, Sören Diegelmann, Yasmin Abassi, Fred Eichinger, Gert O Pflugfelder

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lisa R MayerInstitute of Genetics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany.
Sören Diegelmann
Yasmin Abassi
Fred Eichinger
Gert O Pflugfelder
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DEUniversity of Würzburg · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reporter gene activity in enhancer trap lines is often implicitly assumed to mirror quite faithfully the endogenous expression of the "trapped" gene, even though there are numerous examples of enhancer trap infidelity. optomotor-blind (omb) is a 160 kb gene in which 16 independent P-element enhancer trap insertions of three different types have been mapped in a range of more than 60 kb. We have determined the expression pattern of these elements in wing, eye-antennal and leg imaginal discs as well as in the pupal tergites. We noted that one pGawB insertion (omb (P4) ) selectively failed to report parts of the omb pattern even though the missing pattern elements were apparent in all other 15 lines. We ruled out that omb (P4) was defective in the Gal4 promoter region or had inactivated genomic enhancers in the integration process. We propose that the Gal4 reporter gene in pGawB may be sensitive to orientation or promoter proximity effects.

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AnimalsArthropod AntennaeChromosome MappingDrosophilaDrosophila ProteinsEnhancer Elements, GeneticExtremitiesEyeGenes, ReporterImaginal DiscsMutagenesis, InsertionalNerve Tissue ProteinsPromoter Regions, GeneticPupaT-Box Domain ProteinsWings, Animalbi protein, DrosophilaDrosophila ProteinsNerve Tissue ProteinsT-Box Domain Proteinsabdominal tergitesDrosophilaenhancer trapimaginal discoptomotor-blind

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PMID23519069
PMCPMC3732331
OpenAlexW2052064587

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