Sequences involved in temperature and ecdysterone-induced transcription are located in separate regions of a Drosophila melanogaster heat shock gene.

AUTOR(ES)

Hoffman, E

RESUMO

The transcriptional regulation of the Drosophila melanogaster hsp27 (also called hsp28) gene was studied by introducing altered genes into the germ line by P element-mediated transformation. DNA sequences upstream of the gene were defined with respect to their effect on steroid hormone-induced and heat-induced transcription. These two types of control were found to be separable; the sequences responsible for 80% of heat-induced expression were located more than 1.1 kilobases upstream of the RNA initiation site, while the sequences responsible for the majority of ecdysterone induction were positioned downstream of the site at -227 base pairs. We have determined the DNA sequence of the intergenic region separating hsp23 and hsp27 and have located putative heat shock and ecdysterone consensus sequences. Our results indicate that the heat shock promoter of the hsp27 gene is organized quite differently from that of hsp70.

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