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ArticlePloS one2013

Manipulating the sensitivity of signal-induced repression: quantification and consequences of altered brinker gradients.

Lucia Gafner, Sascha Dalessi, Eliane Escher, George Pyrowolakis, Sven Bergmann, Konrad Basler

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Article in PloS one, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Lucia GafnerInstitute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Sascha Dalessi
Eliane Escher
George Pyrowolakis
Sven Bergmann
Konrad Basler
University of Zurich · CHSIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics · CHUniversity of Freiburg · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traditionally, the analysis of gene regulatory regions suffered from the caveat that it was restricted to artificial contexts (e.g. reporter constructs of limited size). With the advent of the BAC recombineering technique, genomic constructs can now be generated to test regulatory elements in their endogenous environment. The expression of the transcriptional repressor brinker (brk) is negatively regulated by Dpp signaling. Repression is mediated by small sequence motifs, the silencer elements (SEs), that are present in multiple copies in the regulatory region of brk. In this work, we manipulated the SEs in the brk locus. We precisely quantified the effects of the individual SEs on the Brk gradient in the wing disc by employing a 1D data extraction method, followed by the quantification of the data with reference to an internal control. We found that mutating the SEs results in an expansion of the brk expression domain. However, even after mutating all predicted SEs, repression could still be observed in regions of maximal Dpp levels. Thus, our data point to the presence of additional, low affinity binding sites in the brk locus.

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Gene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalSilencer Elements, TranscriptionalAnimalsBase SequenceDown-RegulationDrosophilaDrosophila ProteinsGenes, InsectGenes, ReporterGenetic LociGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMutationRepressor ProteinsSignal TransductionWings, Animalbrk protein, Drosophiladpp protein, DrosophilaDrosophila Proteinsenhanced green fluorescent proteinGreen Fluorescent ProteinsRepressor Proteins

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PMID23951114
PMCPMC3738585
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