Wildonger Jill, Sosinsky Alona, Honig Barry, Mann Richard S
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University Medical School, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Genes Dev. 2005 May 1;19(9):1034-9. doi: 10.1101/gad.1298105.
We show that reducing the activity of the Drosophila Runx protein Lozenge (Lz) during pupal development causes a decrease in cell death in the eye. We identified Lz-binding sites in introns of argos (aos) and klumpfuss (klu) and demonstrate that these genes are directly activated targets of Lz. Loss of either aos or klu reduces cell death, suggesting that Lz promotes apoptosis at least in part by regulating aos and klu. These results provide novel insights into the control of programmed cell death (PCD) by Lz during Drosophila eye development.
我们发现,在果蝇蛹期发育过程中降低果蝇Runx蛋白菱形(Lz)的活性会导致眼睛中的细胞死亡减少。我们在argos(aos)和klumpfuss(klu)的内含子中鉴定出Lz结合位点,并证明这些基因是Lz的直接激活靶点。aos或klu的缺失都会减少细胞死亡,这表明Lz至少部分通过调节aos和klu来促进细胞凋亡。这些结果为果蝇眼睛发育过程中Lz对程序性细胞死亡(PCD)的控制提供了新的见解。