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Molecular Dissection of the 5' Region of no-on-transientA of Drosophila melanogaster Reveals cis-Regulation by Adjacent dGpi1 Sequences
Federica Sandrellia, Susanna Campesanb, Maria Giovanna Rossettoa, Clara Bennaa, Emanuela Ziegera, Aram Megighianc, Martin Couchmanb, Charalambos P. Kyriacoub, and Rodolfo Costaaa Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy,
b Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, England
c Dipartimento di Anatomia e Fisiologia Umana, Università di Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
Corresponding author: Rodolfo Costa, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Padova, Via U. Bassi 58/B, 35131 Padova, Italy., costa{at}civ.bio.unipd.it (E-mail)
Communicating editor: J. J. LOROS
350 bp downstream of the dGpi1 gene. Full rescue of nonA mutant phenotypes can be achieved by transformation with a genomic clone that carries 2 kb of 5' regulatory material and that encodes most of the coding sequence of dGpi1. We have analyzed this 5' region by making a series of deleted fragments, fusing them to yeast GAL4 sequences, and driving UAS-nonA expression in a mutant nonA background. Regions that both silence and enhance developmental tissue-specific expression of nonA and that are necessary for generating optomotor visual responses are identified. Some of these overlap the dGpi1 sequences, revealing cis-regulation by neighboring gene sequences. The largest 5' fragment was unable to rescue the normal electroretinogram (ERG) consistently, and no rescue at all was observed for the courtship song phenotype. We suggest that sequences within the nonA introns that were missing in the UAS-nonA cDNA may carry enhancer elements for these two phenotypes. Finally, we speculate on the striking observation that some of the cis-regulatory regions of nonA appear to be embedded within the coding regions of dGpi1.
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