Busseau I, Malinsky S, Balakireva M, Chaboissier M C, Teninges D, Bucheton A
Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Genetics. 1998 Jan;148(1):267-75. doi: 10.1093/genetics/148.1.267.
I factors in Drosophila melanogaster are non-LTR retrotransposons similar to mammalian LINEs. They transpose at very high frequencies in the germ line of SF females resulting from crosses between reactive females, devoid of active I factors, and inducer males, containing active I factors. The vermilion marked IviP2 element was designed to allow easy phenotypical screening for retrotransposition events. It is deleted in ORF2 and therefore cannot produce reverse transcriptase. IviP2 can be mobilized at very low frequencies by actively transposing I factors in the germ line of SF females. This paper shows that IviP2 can be mobilized more efficiently in the germ line of strongly reactive females in the absence of active I factors, when it is trans-complemented by the product of ORF2 synthesized from the hsp70 heat-shock promoter. This represents a promising step toward the use of marked I elements to study retrotransposition and as tools for mutagenesis.
果蝇中的I因子是非LTR反转录转座子,类似于哺乳动物的LINEs。它们在无活性I因子的反应性雌性与含有活性I因子的诱导性雄性杂交产生的SF雌性的生殖系中以非常高的频率转座。朱砂标记的IviP2元件旨在便于对反转录转座事件进行表型筛选。它在ORF2中缺失,因此不能产生逆转录酶。IviP2可以通过SF雌性生殖系中活跃转座的I因子以非常低的频率被激活。本文表明,当由hsp70热休克启动子合成的ORF2产物进行反式互补时,IviP2在无活性I因子的强反应性雌性的生殖系中可以更有效地被激活。这代表了朝着使用标记的I元件来研究反转录转座并作为诱变工具迈出的有希望的一步。