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Tombola, a tesmin/TSO1 family protein, regulates transcriptional activation in the Drosophila male germline and physically interacts with Always early

Jiang, Jianqiao, Benson, E., Bausek, N., Doggett, K. and White-Cooper, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3373-8023 2007. Tombola, a tesmin/TSO1 family protein, regulates transcriptional activation in the Drosophila male germline and physically interacts with Always early. Development 134 , pp. 1549-1559. 10.1242/dev.000521

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Abstract

During male gametogenesis a developmentally regulated and cell type specific transcriptional programme is activated in primary spermatocytes to prepare for differentiation of sperm. The Drosophila aly-class meiotic arrest loci (aly, comr, achi/vis and topi) are essential for activation of transcription of many differentiation-specific genes, and several genes important for meiotic cell cycle progression, thus linking meiotic divisions to cellular differentiation during spermatogenesis. Protein interaction studies suggests that the aly-class gene products form a chromatin-associated complex in primary spermatocytes. We identify, clone and characterise a new aly-class meiotic arrest gene, tombola (tomb), which encodes a testis-specific CXC domain protein that interacts with Aly. The tomb mutant phenotype is more like aly and comr than like achi/vis or topi in terms of target gene profile and chromosome morphology. tomb encodes a chromatin-associated protein required for localisation of Aly and Comr, but not Topi, to chromatin Reciprocally, aly and comr, but not topi or achi/vis, are required to maintain the normal localisation of Tomb. tomb and aly may be components of a complex paralogous to the Drosophila dREAM/MybMuv-B and C. elegans DRM transcriptional regulatory complexes.

Item Type: Article
Status: Published
Schools: Biosciences
Publisher: Company of Biologists
ISSN: 0950-1991
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2022 10:06
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/61160

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