sry h-1, a new Drosophila melanogaster multifingered protein gene showing maternal and zygotic expression.

AUTOR(ES)

Vincent, A

RESUMO

Low-stringency hybridization of the Drosophila serendipity (sry) finger-coding sequences revealed copies of homologous DNA sequences in the genomes of members of the family Drosophilidae and higher vertebrates. sry h-1, a new Drosophila finger protein-coding gene isolated on the basis of this homology, encodes a 3.2-kilobase (kb) mRNA accumulating in eggs and abundant in early embryos. The predicted sry h-1 protein product, starting at an internal initiation site of translation, is a 868-amino-acid basic polypeptide containing eight TFIIIA-like fingers encoded by three separate exons. Links separating individual fingers in the sry h-1 protein are variable in length and sequence, in contrast with the invariant H/C link found in most multi-fingered proteins. The similarity of the developmental pattern of transcription of sry h-1 with that of several other Drosophila finger protein genes suggests the existence of a complex set of such genes encoding an information which is, at least partly, maternally provided to the embryo and required for activation of gene transcription in early embryos or maintenance of gene activity during subsequent development.

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