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Volume 38 Issue 2

Feb. 2011

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Article Navigation > Journal of Genetics and Genomics > 2011 > 38(2): 55-61

Distinct effects of nuclear membrane localization on gene transcription silencing in Drosophila S2 cells and germ cells

doi: 10.1016/j.jcg.2011.01.002

Lu Sui^{a, b},
Yanhong Yang^a

a
State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
b
Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

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Corresponding author: E-mail address: yangyanhong@ioz.ac.cn (Yanhong Yang)
Received Date: 2010-08-16
Accepted Date: 2011-01-07
Rev Recd Date: 2011-01-06

Available Online: 2011-02-23

Publish Date: 2011-02-20

Abstract

Nuclear envelope proteins have important roles in chromatin organization and signal-dependent transcriptional regulation. A previous study reported that the inner nuclear membrane protein, Otefin (Ote), was essential for germline stem cell (GSC) maintenance via interaction with Smad complex. The interaction of Ote with the Smad complex recruits the bam locus to the nuclear periphery and subsequently results in bam transcriptional silencing, revealing that nuclear peripheral localization is essential for bam gene regulation. However, it remains unknown whether the nuclear peripheral localization is sufficient for bam silencing. To address this issue, we have established a tethering system, in which the Gal4 DNA binding domain (DBD) of the Flag:Gal4 DBD:Ote▵LEM fusion protein physically interacts with the Gal4 binding sites upstream of bamP-gfp to artificially recruit the reporter gene gfp to the nuclear membrane. Our data demonstrated that the nuclear peripheral localization seemed to affect the expression of the target naked gene in S2 cells. By contrast, in Drosophila germ cells, the nuclear membrane localization was not sufficient for gene silencing.
- Nuclear membrane proteins,
- Nuclear membrane localization,
- Gene transcription silencing

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