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The period E-box Is Sufficient to Drive Circadian Oscillation of Transcription In Vivo
Thomas K. Darlington
Department of Cell Biology and NSF Center for Biological Timing, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
Lisa C. Lyons
Paul E. Hardin
Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5513 USA
Steve A. Kay
Department of Cell Biology and NSF Center for Biological Timing, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
The minimum element from the Drosophila period promoter capable of driving in vivo cycling mRNA is the 69 bp circadian regulatory sequence (CRS). In cell culture, an 18 bp E-box element from the period promoter is regulated by five genes that are involved in the regulation of circadian expression in flies. This E-box is a target for transcriptional activation by bHLH-PAS proteins dCLOCK (dCLK) and CYCLE (CYC), this activation is inhibited by PERIOD (PER) and TIMELESS (TIM) together, and inhibition of dCLK/CYC by PER and TIM is blocked by CRYPTOCHROME (CRY) in the presence of light. Here, the same 18 bp E-box region generated rhythmic expression of luciferase in flies under both light-dark cycling and constant conditions. Flies heterozygous for the Clk mutation maintained rhythmic expression from the E-box although at a lower level than wild type. Homozygous mutant Clk animals had drastically lowered and arrhythmic expression. In a per background, expression from the E-box was high and not rhythmic. Transcription mediated by the per E-box was restricted to the same spatial pattern as the CRS. The per E-box DNAelement and cognate binding proteins can confer per-like temporal and spatial expression. This demonstrates in vivo that the known circadian genes that form the core of the circadian oscillator in Drosophila integrate their activities at a single DNA element.
Key Words: circadian oscillation • Drosophila • transcription • dClock • cycle • period • luciferase • E-box
Journal of Biological Rhythms, Vol. 15, No. 6,
462-470 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/074873040001500603
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