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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on February 16, 2005.
Genetics, Vol. 169, 2061-2074, April 2005, Copyright © 2005
doi:10.1534/genetics.104.036020
Gene Expression Analysis of the Function of the Male-Specific Lethal Complex in Drosophila
Manika Pal Bhadra*,
,1,2,
Utpal Bhadra*,,1,
Joydeep Kundu and
James A. Birchler*,3
* Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
Functional Genomics and Gene Silencing Group, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad 500007, India
3 Corresponding author: 117 Tucker Hall, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211.
E-mail: birchlerj{at}missouri.edu
Dosage compensation refers to the equal expression of X-linked genes despite the difference in copy number between the two sexes. The male-specific lethal (MSL) complex is concentrated on the X chromosome in males. A gene expression assay for embryos was developed to examine the function of this complex. In mutant male embryos without either the MSL complex or MOF histone acetylase, dosage compensation is retained but autosomal expression is increased. Dosage compensation is lost in the double-mutant embryos. In embryos in which the MSL complex and MOF are targeted to the X chromosomes in females, the results are consistent with previous surveys showing that in general the X expression remains unchanged, but autosomal expression is reduced. Mutations in the ISWI chromatin-remodeling component cause increases specifically of X-linked genes in males. Thus, the function of the MSL complex in conjunction with ISWI is postulated to override the effect on gene expression of high histone acetylation on the male X. The basic determinant of dosage compensation is suggested to be an inverse dosage effect produced by an imbalance of transcription factors on the X vs. the autosomes. The sequestration of the MSL complex to the male X may have evolved to counteract a similar effect on the autosomes and to prevent an overexpression of the X chromosome in males that would otherwise occur due to the high levels of histone acetylation.
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