Functional analysis of conserved sequences within a temporally restricted neural precursor cell enhancer.

ABSTRACT: Many of the key regulators of Drosophila CNS neural identity are expressed in defined temporal orders during neuroblast (NB) lineage development. To begin to understand the structural and functional complexity of enhancers that regulate ordered NB gene expression programs, we have undertaken the mutational analysis of the temporally restricted nerfin-1 NB enhancer. Our previous studies have localized the enhancer to a region just proximal to the nerfin-1 transcription start site. Analysis of this enhancer, using the phylogenetic footprint program EvoPrinter, reveals the presence of multiple sequence blocks that are conserved among drosophilids. cis-Decoder alignments of these conserved sequence blocks (CSBs) has identified shorter elements that are conserved in other Drosophila NB enhancer

SUBMITTER: Kuzin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3095431 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature