Birchler J A, Hiebert J C, Paigen K
Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.
Genetics. 1990 Mar;124(3):679-86.
An example of autosomal dosage compensation involving the expression of the alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) locus is described. Flies trisomic for a quarter of the length of the left arm of chromosome two, including Adh, have diploid levels of enzyme activity and alcohol dehydrogenase messenger RNA. Subdivision of the compensating trisomic into smaller ones revealed a region that exerts an inverse regulatory effect on alcohol dehydrogenase activity and messenger RNA levels and a smaller region surrounding the structural gene that exhibits a direct gene dosage response. The two opposing effects are of sufficient magnitude that they cancel when simultaneously present resulting in the observed compensation in the larger aneuploid. An Adh promoter-white structural gene fusion construct is affected by the inverse regulatory region indicating that the effect is mediated through the Adh promoter sequences. The role of autosomal dosage compensation in understanding aneuploid syndromes and karyotype evolution in Drosophila species is discussed.
描述了一个涉及酒精脱氢酶(Adh)基因座表达的常染色体剂量补偿的例子。对于包括Adh在内的二号染色体左臂四分之一长度三体的果蝇,具有二倍体水平的酶活性和酒精脱氢酶信使RNA。将补偿性三体细分为更小的三体后发现,有一个区域对酒精脱氢酶活性和信使RNA水平发挥反向调节作用,以及一个围绕结构基因的较小区域呈现直接的基因剂量反应。这两种相反的效应强度足以在同时存在时相互抵消,从而在较大的非整倍体中产生观察到的补偿。一个Adh启动子-白色结构基因融合构建体受反向调节区域的影响,表明这种效应是通过Adh启动子序列介导的。讨论了常染色体剂量补偿在理解果蝇物种非整倍体综合征和核型进化中的作用。