Binding of the Drosophila transformer and transformer-2 proteins to the regulatory elements of doublesex primary transcript for sex-specific RNA processing.
Open Access
- 1 September 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 89 (17) , 8092-8096
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.89.17.8092
Abstract
Sex-specific alternative processing of double-sex (dsx) precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) is one of the key steps that regulates somatic sexual differentiation in Drosophila melanogaster. By transfection analyses using dsx minigene constructs, we identified six copies of the 13-nucleotide sequences TC(T/A)(T/A)C(A/G)ATCAACA in the female-specific fourth exon that act as the cis elements for the female-specific splicing of dsx pre-mRNA. UV-crosslinking experiments revealed that both female-specific transformer (tra) and transformer-2 (tra-2) products bind to the 13-nucleotide sequences of dsx pre-mRNA. These results strongly suggest that the female-specific splicing of dsx pre-mRNA is activated by binding of these proteins to the 13-nucleotide sequences.Keywords
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