Analysis of developmentally regulated chorion gene promoter architecture via electroporation of silk moth follicles.

Abstract:

:In the silk moth Bombyx mori, chorion genes of the same developmental specificity are organized in divergently transcribed α/β gene pairs, sharing a common 5' flanking promoter region. This bidirectional promoter contains a complete set of cis-elements responsible for developmentally accurate gene expression. In the present paper, based on the observation that Bombyx chorion gene promoters contain cis-elements for the same transcription factors without concrete evidence on which of them are essential, we address the question as to how promoter architecture (number, orientation and position of common factor binding sites) facilitates developmentally accurate chorion gene regulation. To this end, we constructed several mutated promoter regions of an early-middle gene pair and cloned them upstream of a reporter gene to introduce these plasmid constructs into silk moth follicle epithelial cells via electroporation as an efficient and quick method for transient expression. This is the first time that an ex vivo method had been applied to test the impact of systematic cis-element mutations on a chorion gene promoter. Our results confirmed the importance of the HMGA factor and the role of the GATA factor as an early repressor, and led to a more detailed understanding of which C/EBP sites participate in the regulation of early-middle chorion gene expression.

journal_name

Insect Mol Biol

journal_title

Insect molecular biology

authors

Tsatsarounos SP,Rodakis GC,Lecanidou R

doi

10.1111/imb.12136

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-02-01 00:00:00

pages

71-81

issue

1

eissn

0962-1075

issn

1365-2583

journal_volume

24

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