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Identification of a Different-Type Homeobox Gene, Barhi, Possibly Causing Bar (B) and Om(Ld) Mutations in Drosophila Proc. Nati. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 88, pp. 4343-4347, May 1991 Genetics Identification of a different-type homeobox gene, BarHI, possibly causing Bar (B) and Om(lD) mutations in Drosophila (compound eye/homeodomain/morphogenesis/malformation/M-repeat) TETSUYA KOJIMA, SATOSHI ISHIMARU, SHIN-ICHI HIGASHUIMA, Eui TAKAYAMA, HIROSHI AKIMARU, MASAKI SONE, YASUFUMI EMORI, AND KAORU SAIGO* Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan Communicated by Melvin M. Green, January 25, 1991 ABSTRACT The Bar mutation B of Drosophila melano- the initial periodicity. A class of mutations including Bar (B) gaster and optic morphology mutation Om(JD) of Drosophila may also be intimately related to early events (9). For ananassae result in suppression of ommatidium differentiation clarification of this point, examination was first made of at the anterior portion of the eye. Examination was made to possible determinant genes for the Bar mutation B of Dro- determine the genes responsible for these mutations. Both loci sophila melanogaster (10) and optic morphology mutation were found to share in common a different type of homeobox Om(JD) of Drosophila ananassae (11), in both of which gene, which we call "BarH1." Polypeptides encoded by D. ommatidium differentiation is suppressed in the anterior melanogaster and D. ananassae BarHl genes consist of543 and portion ofthe eye. Both locit were found to share in common 604 amino acids, respectively, with homeodomains identical in a different type of homeobox gene, called BarH1, which sequence except for one amino acid substitution. A unique encodes a polypeptide of Mr - 60,000. RNA (Northern) feature of these homeodomains is that the phenylalanine resi- blotting indicated considerably more BarH1 RNA in the Bar due in helix 3, conserved in all metazoan homeodomains so far mutant than in wild type. P element-mediated transformation examined, is replaced by a tyrosine residue. By Northern showed Bar-like eye malformation to result from the transient blotting, considerably more BarH1 RNA was detected in the overexpression of the BarH1 homeobox gene in the late Bar mutant than in wild type. P element-mediated transfor- third-instar larvae. Normal gene functions of the Bar region mation showed Bar-like eye malformation to be induced by have also been shown to be necessary for the normal eye transient overexpression of the BarH1 gene in the late third- morphogenesis. instar larvae. Somatic recombination analysis indicated nor- mal gene functions ofthe Bar region, including the BarH1 gene, MATERIALS AND METHODS to be required for normal eye morphogenesis. Fly and Phage Stocks. D. melanogaster strains carrying B The Drosophila compound eye consists of an array of some and w mutations were obtained from Y. N. Tobari and Y. 800 ommatidia, each a precise, stereotyped assembly of Hotta, respectively. Strain Df(J)B263-20/In(1)sc7In(J)AM, sc7 about 20 cells including 8 photoreceptor cells (R cells) (1). car, from which strain Df(J)B263-20 w/FM7 is derived, was Based on the sequential order of neural differentiation, R obtained from Mid-America Drosophila Stock Center, Bowl- cells be classed as R8, or R7 (2). ing Green State University. According to Sutton (12), this may R2/R5, R3/R4, R1/R6, chromosome 1 Bar deficiency (lethal) includes almost all of Classical anatomical and genetic studies support the notion the entire 16A section [16A1-6 (or 7)] of chromosome loca- that there are no strict cell lineage relationships between R tion 1-57.0. MS59 is a viable enhancer trap fly line and carries cells. The fates of cells that join a developing ommatidium an "enhancer trap" P element marked by w+ and IacZ that later appear to be determined by cells that already have is inserted near the Bar locus (M.S., unpublished data). Other differentiated within a unit (2). Several genes involved in fly strains were from ourfly stocks. A phage clones AOm(lD)3 these determination processes have been cloned, and their and AOm(lD)5, each including a part of the Om(JD) locus, possible roles in ommatidium formation have been indicated. were kindly supplied by S. Tanda and C. H. Langley (13). sevenless (sev), whose expression in R7 cells is required for Somatic Recombination Techniques. Virgin females hetero- R7 determination, encodes a transmembrane receptor that zygous for Df(J)B263-20 w/FM7 were crossed with MS59 possesses a putative tyrosine kinase domain (3) and possibly males. Mosaic eyes were found in 2-3% of female progeny interacts with bride of sevenless (boss)-dependent signal heterozygous for DJ(1)B26320 w/P[w+] w. X-ray irradiation molecules produced by R8 cells (4). The rough (ro) gene (1000-2000 rads) of second-instar larvae was used to induce product, having a homeodomain, is essential for sending somatic recombination. Fixation and sectioning were per- signals by the R2/R5 pair to their neighbors (5). The seven up formed as described by Tomlinson and Ready (2). (svp) gene product, mandatory for determining the cell iden- Molecular Analyses. Biotinylated DNA probes were pre- tities of R3/R4 and R1/R6, encodes a presumptive steroid pared by DNA labeling and use of a nonradioactive kit hormone receptor (6), whereas the glass (go gene product is (Boehringer Mannheim). Synthetic oligonucleotides 3'- a putative DNA-binding protein with zinc fingers and appar- ATITTTTICTIATIATITCTT'TC (I = inosine) and 3'-GA(C ently is involved in photoreceptor determination (7). or I)GG(I or C)GG(I or C)GA(I or C)TC(T or C)ACCTAC- In contrast to the fate-determination processes at the level CG(I or C)GGICTT, corresponding to Tyr-Lys-Asn-Asp- of individual photoreceptors, little is known ofthe molecular Tyr-Tyr-Arg-Lys-Arg and Leu-Pro-Val-Arg-Trp-Met-Ala- events at very early stages of concerted ommatidium forma- were used to screen tyrosine kinase tion, although a recent finding by Mlodzik et al. (8) may Pro-Glu, respectively, suggest an important role ofthe scabrous gene in establishing Abbreviations: R cells, photoreceptor cells; hsp, heat shock protein. *To whom reprint requests should be addressed. The publication costs of this article were defrayed in part by page charge tThe sequences reported in this paper have been deposited in the payment. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" GenBank data base (accession nos. M59962 and M59963 for D. in accordance with 18 U.S.C. §1734 solely to indicate this fact. ananassae BarH1 and M59965 for D. melanogaster). 4343 Downloaded by guest on September 25, 2021 4344 Genetics: Kojima et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88 (1991) genes, while 5'-(CAG)lo was used to screen the M-repeat ir sequence (14). cDNA libraries were made from Canton-S 4 ,1l51| 16t 1 embryos and pupae. Two other cDNA libraries made by L. Kauvar (26) were also used. All other procedures were essentially as described by Sambrook et al. (15). RESULTS Molecular Cloning of the Bar Locus. The Om(JD) mutation in D. ananassae results from the insertion of a retrotrans- poson tom (11). The DNA fragment including the Om(ID) b 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 1213141516 1718 locus has been cloned by tom-tagging (13). By using a part of this DNA as a probe, the D. melanogaster counterpart was isolated (Fig. la). In situ hybridization to the polytene :4 ..& -.f; D. dmft.A&&L"_ - so ^ chromosomes of melanogaster indicated the wild-type X w %* -W. "o, e wq. -0.8 chromosome to have a single hybridization band at 16A .47 corresponding to the Bar locus, whereas two adjacent hy- -AC bridization bands could be seen on the X chromosome with eAA5dAm eWh 1t 8 the Bar mutation, B (Fig. 2a, Inset 2), associated with a FIG. 2. Chromosomal location (a) and expression (b) of D. duplication of 16A1-16A7 (18). Recently, a partial physical melanogaster BarH1 homeobox gene. (a) In situ hybridization was map ofthe Bar region was shown by Tsubota et al. (19). Since carried out with fragment 1 of Fig. la as a probe. Under phase- there appears to be no overlapping in restriction maps contrast microscopy, a photograph was taken of the wild-type X between their clone and ours, the latter may likely represent chromosome showing a single hybridization band at 16A, the site of an internal Bar sequence situated more than 50 kilobases (kb) the Bar locus (12). The hybridized region indicated by an arrowhead appears as a very bright band in contrast to the picture taken without P phase contrast (Inset 1). Inset 2 shows a part of the hybridization a S SEPX EP E PB H S Me HqfE Dy pattern of the B X chromosome. (b) Northern blot analysis of D. Da ffi FRAU RAK POIN D9 melanogaster BarHl RNA. Hybridization was carried out with a M ~~~~~~ATAA cDNA fragment, fragment 2 of Fig. la, as a probe. Odd- and tREAK Poiir even-number lanes, respectively, are for the wild-type and B mutant RNAs. Lanes: 1 and 2, embryos; 3 and 4, larvae; 5 and 6, pupae; 7 Dm lkb and 8, adults; 9 and 10, early third-instar larvae (collected %-120 hr XE after oviposition at 250C); 11 and 12, late third-instar larvae (120-168 9 hr); 13 and 14, early pupae (120- to 168-hr pupae); 15 and 16, middle X S 3 X A AA E stage of pupae (168-192 hr); 17 and 18, late pupae (192-240 hr). B Molecular size in kb is shown on the right. Ac indicates patterns of b H rehybridization with an actin probe [pACT5C (ref.
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