Vázquez Martha, Cooper Monica T, Zurita Mario, Kennison James A
Departamento de Fisiologia Molecular y Genetica del Desarrollo, Instituto de Biotecnologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Morelos 62250, Mexico.
Genetics. 2008 Oct;180(2):835-43. doi: 10.1534/genetics.108.093492. Epub 2008 Sep 9.
The brahma gene encodes the catalytic subunit of the Drosophila melanogaster BRM chromatin-remodeling complexes. Screening for mutations that interact with brahma, we isolated the dominant-negative Pearl-2 allele of gammaTub23C. gammaTub23C encodes one of the two gamma-tubulin isoforms in Drosophila and is essential for zygotic viability and normal adult patterning. gamma-Tubulin is a subunit of microtubule organizer complexes. We show that mutations in lethal (1) discs degenerate 4, which encodes the Grip91 subunit of microtubule organizer complexes, suppress the recessive lethality and the imaginal phenotypes caused by gammaTub23C mutations. The genetic interactions between gammaTub23C and chromatin-remodeling mutations suggest that gamma-tubulin might have a role in regulating gene expression.
brahma基因编码果蝇BRM染色质重塑复合物的催化亚基。通过筛选与brahma相互作用的突变,我们分离出了gammaTub23C的显性负性Pearl-2等位基因。gammaTub23C编码果蝇中两种γ-微管蛋白异构体之一,对合子活力和正常成虫模式形成至关重要。γ-微管蛋白是微管组织中心复合物的一个亚基。我们发现,致死(1)盘退化4(其编码微管组织中心复合物的Grip91亚基)中的突变可抑制由gammaTub23C突变引起的隐性致死性和成虫盘表型。gammaTub23C与染色质重塑突变之间的遗传相互作用表明,γ-微管蛋白可能在调节基因表达中发挥作用。