在Drosophila中通过增强的转录延长进行X染色体剂量补偿
Erica Larschan1, Eric P Bishop, Peter V Kharchenko
1Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Nature
|March 4, 2011
概括
德洛索菲拉的男性特异性致死性 (MSL) 复合物增强了男性的X链基因的转录. 这促进了RNA聚合酶II的进展,这对于剂量补偿和性别之间的基因表达均等至关重要.
科学领域:
- 遗传学 是一个遗传学.
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 表观遗传学 在表观遗传学中,表观遗传学是指表观遗传学.
背景情况:
- 在具有性染色体的物种 (例如,XX雌性,XY雄性) 中,剂量补偿是必不可少的.
- 德洛索菲拉的男性特异性致死性 (MSL) 复合体在男性的单个X染色体上上调基因表达.
- 了解MSL复合物的生物化学机制是解释剂量补偿的关键.
研究的目的:
- 研究MSL复合体对RNA聚合酶II (RNAPII) 活性的全基因组影响.
- 阐明MSL复合体在剂量补偿的转录调节中的机制性作用.
主要方法:
- 全球运行测序 (GRO-seq) 用于分析RNAP II动态.
- 进行了全基因组分析,以绘制MSL复杂效应对转录的影响.
主要成果:
- 该MSL复合物显著增强活跃的X链基因的转录在雄性Drosophila.
- MSL复合物促进RNAP II通过X链基因的基因体的进展.
- 这种增强发生在典型的基因特异性调节控制的下游.
结论:
- 该MSL复合物促进转录延长作为剂量补偿的关键机制.
- 促进跨X链基因的RNAP II进展,确保两性之间的基因表达均等.
- 这项研究提供了关于如何在全染色体水平上实现剂量补偿的机制性见解.
相关概念视频
Position-effect Variegation
In 1928, a German botanist Emil Heitz observed the moss nuclei with a DNA binding dye. He observed that while some chromatin regions decondense and spread out in the interphase nucleus, others do not. He termed them euchromatin and heterochromatin, respectively. He proposed that the heterochromatin regions reflect a functionally inactive state of the genome. It was later confirmed that heterochromatin is transcriptionally repressed, and euchromatin is transcriptionally active chromatin.
Dosage Compensation
In animals, gender is determined by the number and type of sex chromosome. For example, human females have two X chromosomes, and males have one X and one Y chromosome, whereas C.elegans with one X chromosome is a male, and the one with two X chromosomes is a hermaphrodite.
In addition to sexual development, the X chromosome has genes involved in autosomal functions such as brain development and the immune system. Therefore, males and females with distinct numbers of X chromosomes will have...
In addition to sexual development, the X chromosome has genes involved in autosomal functions such as brain development and the immune system. Therefore, males and females with distinct numbers of X chromosomes will have...


