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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on September 15, 2004.
Genetics, Vol. 169, 161-172, January 2005, Copyright © 2005
doi:10.1534/genetics.104.033118
Core Promoter Sequences Contribute to ovo-B Regulation in the Drosophila melanogaster Germline
Beata Bielinska1, Jining Lü2, David Sturgill and Brian Oliver3
Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
3 Corresponding author: LCDB, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, 50 South Dr., MSC 8028, Bldg. 50, Room 3339, Bethesda, MD 20892-8028.
E-mail: oliver{at}helix.nih.gov
Utilization of tightly linked ovo-A vs. ovo-B germline promoters results in the expression of OVO-A and OVO-B, C2H2 transcription factors with different N –termini, and different effects on target gene transcription and on female germline development. We show that two sex-determination signals, the X chromosome number within the germ cells and a female soma, differentially regulate ovo-B and ovo-A. We have previously shown that OVO regulates ovarian tumor transcription by binding the transcription start site. We have explored the regulation of the ovo-B promoter using an extensive series of transgenic reporter gene constructs to delimit cis-regulatory sequences as assayed in wild-type and sex-transformed flies and flies with altered ovo dose. Minimum regulated expression of ovo-B requires a short region flanking the transcription start site, suggesting that the ovo-B core promoter bears regulatory information in addition to a "basal" activity. In support of this idea, the core promoter region binds distinct factors in ovary and testis extracts, but not in soma extracts, suggesting that regulatory complexes form at the start site. This idea is further supported by the evolutionarily conserved organization of OVO binding sites at or near the start sites of ovo loci in other flies.
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