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CURRENT BIOLOGY
卷 21, 期 14, 页码 1186-1196出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.05.056
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- Center for Organogenesis [5T32HD007505]
- National Institutes of Health [GM076509]
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act supplement [GM07650903S1]
Background: Enhancers are genomic cis-regulatory sequences that integrate spatiotemporal signals to control gene expression. Enhancer activity depends on the combination of bound transcription factors as well as in some cases the arrangement and spacing of binding sites for these factors. Here, we examine evolutionary changes to the sequence and structure of sparkling, a Notch/EGFR/Runx-regulated enhancer that activates the dPax2 gene in cone cells of the developing Drosophila eye. Results: Despite functional and structural constraints on its sequence, sparkling has undergone major reorganization in its recent evolutionary history. Our data suggest that the relative strengths of the various regulatory inputs into sparkling change rapidly over evolutionary time, such that reduced input from some factors is compensated by increased input from different regulators. These gains and losses are at least partly responsible for the changes in enhancer structure that we observe. Furthermore, stereotypical spatial relationships between certain binding sites (grammar elements) can be identified in all sparkling orthologs-although the sites themselves are often recently derived. We also find that low binding affinity for the Notch-regulated transcription factor Su(H), a conserved property of sparkling, is required to prevent ectopic responses to Notch in noncone cells. Conclusions: Rapid DNA sequence turnover does not imply either the absence of critical cis-regulatory information or the absence of structural rules. Our findings demonstrate that even a severely constrained cis-regulatory sequence can be significantly rewired over a short evolutionary timescale.
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