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ArticleDevelopmental biology2024

Global repression by tailless during segmentation.

Lauro Hiroshi Pimentel Masuda, Alan Utsuni Sabino, John Reinitz, Alexandre Ferreira Ramos, Ariane Machado-Lima, Luiz Paulo Andrioli

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Article in Developmental biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Lauro Hiroshi Pimentel MasudaEscola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: df@gmail.com.
Alan Utsuni SabinoDepartamento de Radiologia e Oncologia, Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
John ReinitzDepartments of Statistics, Ecology and Evolution, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology, Institute of Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Alexandre Ferreira RamosEscola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Ariane Machado-LimaEscola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Luiz Paulo AndrioliEscola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: lpma@usp.br.
Universidade de São Paulo · BRInstituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo · BRUniversity of Chicago · US

Funding

Physiological Model of Gene Regulation in DrosophilaR01OD010936 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI ALLESINA, STEFANO, LUDWIG, MICHAEL · 2012 to 2023
$6.3M
NIH HHS R01 OD010936
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The orphan nuclear receptor Tailless (Tll) exhibits conserved roles in brain formation and maintenance that are shared, for example, with vertebrate orthologous forms (Tlx). However, the early expression of tll in two gap domains in the segmentation cascade of Drosophila is unusual even for most other insects. Here we investigate tll regulation on pair-rule stripes. With ectopic misexpression of tll we detected unexpected repression of almost all pair-rule stripes of hairy (h), even-skipped (eve), runt (run), and fushi-tarazu (ftz). Examining Tll embryonic ChIP-chip data with regions mapped as Cis-Regulatory Modules (CRMs) of pair-rule stripes we verified Tll interactions to these regions. With the ChIP-chip data we also verified Tll interactions to the CRMs of gap domains and in the misexpression assay, Tll-mediated repression on Kruppel (Kr), kni (kni) and giant (gt) according to their differential sensitivity to Tll. These results with gap genes confirmed previous data from the literature and argue against indirect repression roles of Tll in the striped pattern. Moreover, the prediction of Tll binding sites in the CRMs of eve stripes and the mathematical modeling of their removal using an experimentally validated theoretical framework shows effects on eve stripes compatible with the absence of a repressor binding to the CRMs. In addition, modeling increased tll levels in the embryo results in the differential repression of eve stripes, agreeing well with the results of the misexpression assay. In genetic assays we investigated eve 5, that is strongly repressed by the ectopic domain and representative of more central stripes not previously implied to be under direct regulation of tll. While this stripe is little affected in tll-, its posterior border is expanded in gt- but detected with even greater expansion in gt-;tll-. We end up by discussing tll with key roles in combinatorial repression mechanisms to contain the expression of medial patterns of the segmentation cascade in the extremities of the embryo.

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Drosophila ProteinsAnimalsDrosophilaHomeodomain ProteinsRepressor ProteinsTranscription FactorsDrosophila Proteinseve protein, DrosophilaHomeodomain Proteinskni protein, DrosophilaRepressor ProteinsTLL protein, DrosophilaTranscription FactorsDrosophilaEmbryoPatterningRepressionSegmentationtaillessTranscription

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