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Genetics, Vol 134, 531-543, Copyright © 1993
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The Y Chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster Contains a Distinctive Subclass of Het-A-Related Repeats
O. Danilevskaya, A. Lofsky, E. V. Kurenova and M. L. Pardue
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123182 Moscow, Russia
The HeT-A element is a transposable element with an apparent role in the structure of the telomeres of Drosophila melanogaster chromosomes. HeT-A transposition is the earliest event detected in healing of broken ends; HeT-A is also found on telomeres of unbroken chromosomes. Sequences with homology to HeT-A are never detected in euchromatic regions; however, clusters of HeT-A-related sequences occur in nontelomeric regions of the heterochromatic Y chromosome. Analysis of two of these Y-associated clusters shows them to be significantly different in structure from telomeric HeT-A elements, although the regions of shared sequence have >80% sequence identity in all cases. Telomeric HeT-A elements occur in chains, with the elements in the same orientation but variably truncated at their external ends and irregularly interspersed with unrelated sequences. In contrast, the nontelomeric Y elements are regular tandem repeats of parts of the HeT-A sequence joined to unrelated sequences which are not the same in the two clusters studied. The sequence structures suggest that the nontelomeric clusters on the Y chromosome do not arise by the same transposition mechanism that forms the telomeric clusters; instead the clusters on the Y may arise by a mechanism that is used more generally in the evolution of Y chromosomes. Although the telomeric and nontelomeric clusters appear to be formed differently, both are enriched in parts of the HeT-A sequence which may be important in the structure of heterochromatin.
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