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  • Title: hairy stripe 7 element mediates activation and repression in response to different domains and levels of Krüppel in the Drosophila embryo.
    Author: La Rosée-Borggreve A, Häder T, Wainwright D, Sauer F, Jäckle H.
    Journal: Mech Dev; 1999 Dec; 89(1-2):133-40. PubMed ID: 10559488.
    Abstract:
    The Drosophila gap gene Krüppel (Kr) encodes a zinc finger-type transcription factor required for controlling the spatial expression of other segmentation genes during early blastoderm stage. Here we show that two independent and transferable repressor domains of Krüppel act to control expression of the pair-rule gene hairy, and that the minimal cis-acting element of hairy stripe7 (h7) mediates either Krüppel-dependent activation or repression in different regions of the blastoderm embryo. The C-terminal region of Krüppel which encompasses the predominant repressor domain is not essential for activation, but is required to fully suppress h7-mediated transcription in response to high levels of Krüppel activity. This domain contains an interaction motif for dCtBP, a homologue of the human co-repressor CtBP. dCtBP activity is, however, dispensable for Krüppel-mediated repression in the embryo since Krüppel-mediated repression functions in the absence of dCtBP. Possible modes of h7-mediated gene regulation in response to the different domains and levels of Krüppel are discussed.
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