cis-regulatory architecture of a short-range EGFR organizing center in the Drosophila melanogaster leg

PLoS Genetics
Susan NewcombRichard S Mann

Abstract

We characterized the establishment of an Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) organizing center (EOC) during leg development in Drosophila melanogaster. Initial EGFR activation occurs in the center of leg discs by expression of the EGFR ligand Vn and the EGFR ligand-processing protease Rho, each through single enhancers, vnE and rhoE, that integrate inputs from Wg, Dpp, Dll and Sp1. Deletion of vnE and rhoE eliminates vn and rho expression in the center of the leg imaginal discs, respectively. Animals with deletions of both vnE and rhoE (but not individually) show distal but not medial leg truncations, suggesting that the distal source of EGFR ligands acts at short-range to only specify distal-most fates, and that multiple additional 'ring' enhancers are responsible for medial fates. Further, based on the cis-regulatory logic of vnE and rhoE we identified many additional leg enhancers, suggesting that this logic is broadly used by many genes during Drosophila limb development.

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Datasets Mentioned

BETA
GSE113574

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BETA
dissection
immunoprecipitation
ChIP
transgenic
PCR
light microscopy
Illumina sequencing
ChIPs
ChIP-seq

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intersectBed
/ R package
IGVtools
TxDb
MACSv2
R
DM3
dacRE
Integrative Genomics Viewer ( IGV )
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