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Genetics, Vol 145, 325-337, Copyright © 1997
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Trans-Suppression of Terminal Deficiency-Associated Position Effect Variegation in a Drosophila Minichromosome
K. M. Donaldson and G. H. Karpen
Molecular Biology and Virology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037, and Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92039
Position effect variegation (PEV) is the clonal inactivation of euchromatic or heterochromatic genes that are abnormally positioned within a chromosome. PEV can be influenced by modifiers in trans, including single gene mutations and the total amount of heterochromatin present in the genome. Terminal deletions of a Drosophila minichromosome (Dp1187) dramatically increase PEV of a yellow(+) body-color gene located in cis, even when the terminal break is >100 kb distal to the yellow gene. Here we demonstrate that terminal deficiency-associated PEV can be suppressed by the presence of a second minichromosome, a novel phenomenon termed ``trans-suppression.'' The chromosomal elements responsible for trans-suppression were investigated using a series of minichromosomes with molecularly characterized deletions and inversions. The data suggest that trans-suppression does not involve communication between transcriptional regulatory elements on the homologues, a type of transvection known to act at the yellow locus. Furthermore, trans-suppression is not accomplished by titration through the addition of extra centric heterochromatin, a general mechanism for PEV suppression. We demonstrate that trans-suppression is disrupted by significant changes in the structure of the suppressing minichromosome, including deletions of the yellow region and centric heterochromatin, and large inversions of the centric heterochromatin. We conclude that chromosome pairing plays an important role in trans-suppression and discuss the possibility that terminal deficiency-associated PEV and trans-suppression reflect changes in nuclear positioning of the chromosomes and the gene, and/or the activity and distribution of telomere-binding proteins.
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