Kirk, Marilyn M. and Stark, Klaus and Miller, Stephen M. and Muller, Waltraud and Taillon, Bruce E. and Gruber, Heribert and Schmitt, Rüdiger and Kirk, David L. (1999) regA, a Volvox gene that plays a central role in germ-soma differentiation, encodes a novel regulatory protein. DEVELOPMENT, 126 (4). pp. 639-647. ISSN 0950-1991,
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Volvox has two cell types: mortal somatic cells and immortal germ cells. Here we describe the transposon-tagging, cloning and characterization of regA, which plays a central role as a master regulatory gene in Volvox germsoma differentiation by suppressing reproductive activities in somatic cells. The 12.5 kb regA transcription unit generates a 6,725 nucleotide mRNA that appears at the beginning of somatic cell differentiation, and that encodes a 111 kDa RegA protein that localizes to the nucleus, and has an unusual abundance of alanine, glutamine and proline, This is a compositional feature shared by functional domains of many 'active' repressors, These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that RegA acts in somatic cells to repress transcription of genes required for growth and reproduction, including 13 genes whose products are required for chloroplast biogenesis.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ASEXUAL LIFE-CYCLE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSION; CELLULAR-DIFFERENTIATION; CARTERI; EXPRESSION; ACTIVATION; LIGHT; IDENTIFICATION; LOCALIZATION; SENESCENCE; active repressor; chloroplast biogenesis; green algae; transcriptional repressor; regA; Volvox carteri |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 570 Life sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Biochemie, Genetik und Mikrobiologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2022 10:04 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Nov 2022 10:04 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/48540 |
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