Isolation and Characterization of the Prune Locus of Drosophila Melanogaster
AUTOR(ES)
Teng, DHF.
RESUMO
The complementary lethal interaction between the prune (pn) and Killer of prune loci of Drosophila melanogaster is an unusual and highly specific phenomenon. A lesion in pn results in a brownish-purple color of the compound eyes, while the conditional dominant Killer of prune mutation exhibits no phenotype by itself. However, a hemizygous or homozygous pn mutant carrying a copy of the Killer of prune gene dies during the late second to third instar stage of larval development. As a step toward understanding the molecular nature of this lethality and the role of pn in pigment biosynthesis, we have cloned the pn locus by using a transposon tag in the P element-induced allele, pn(38). In addition, seven independent revertant lines were generated by the remobilization of transposons in pn(38). The pn gene is located in a region that is transcriptionally active, and the isolated cDNAs that correspond to this area fall into three transcription units: I, II and III. Southern analysis shows that the restriction fragment length polymorphisms in five pn alleles are localized within a 1.2-kilobase genomic fragment, of which only transcription unit II is a part. The cDNA of this unit recognizes 1.65- and 1.8-kilobase messages in wild-type Drosophila adult head and body tissues that are absent or extremely reduced in pn mutants. Taken together, the results suggest that transcription unit II defines a part of the pn locus and its cDNA encodes a putative structural gene of pn.
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