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2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Identification and characterization of the meteor protein, a novel heterochromatin-related protein in Drosophila.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13640614
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 遺伝
Research InstitutionKyoto Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

H.INOUE Yoshihiro  Drosophila Genetic Resource Center, Lecturer, ショウジョウバエ遺伝資源センター, 講師 (90201938)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) YAMAGUCHI Masamitsu  Faculty of textile science, Department of applied biology, Professor, 繊維学部, 教授 (00182460)
Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2002
KeywordsMitosis / Chromosome / heterochromatin / Drosophila
Research Abstract

A novel mitotic mutant, mtr^2, which had been isolated from our large-scale screens of Drosophila mitotic mutants, showed a high proportion of mitotic cells containing hyper-condensed chromatids that have undergone anaphase separation but that the segregation was prevented. Cytological examination of cells in the larval central nervous system from mtr^2 revealed that chromosome fragmentation occurred frequently at centromeres in the mutant cells. The mtr^2 cells contained abnormal mitotic spindles consisted of a less number of spindle microtubules. In the mtr^2 cells, chromatid separation can occur before metaphase even though they have the spindle defects. The abnormal anaphase-like cells in mtr^2 contained a comparable level of cyclin B to the normal level in metaphase cells. On the base or these cytological observations, we proposed a model that the primary defect or the mtr^2 is a perturbation of centromer structure and that it possibly leads to a loss of sister chromatid connection at centromere and further results in a failure of release from an active state of mitotic checkpoint after a completion of mitotic spindle formation. Genetic analyses of the mtr^2 revealed that the chromosome contains two separate mitotic mutations, a novel lethal mutation l(3)acc6487 and a female and male sterile mutation mtr^2. The mitotic phenotypes concerned with construction of centromeres corresponded with the l(3)acc6487 mutation. On the other hand, the mtr gene is required for a negative regulation of meiotic entry in Drosophila males. The mtr gene was localized to 98C region on the polytene chromosome and cloned the genomic region including this gene by a plasmid rescue. The mtr gene corresponds to the known gene, dlarp encoding a of the Lupas Antigen-related protein. A fine chromosome mapping for gene cloning of the l(3)acc6487 is now underway.

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  • [Publications] Mathe, E., Inoue, Y.H., Glover D.M.: "Orbit, the CLASP orthologue of Drosophila, is required for asymmetric stem cell and cystocyte divisions anddevelopment of the polarised microtubule network that interconnects oocyte and murse cells during oogenesis"Development. 130. 901-915 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Takata, K., Inoue, Y.H., et al.: "Spatio-temporal expression of Drosophila mitochondrial transcription factor A during development"Cell Biology International. 27. 361-374 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Higashiyama, H., Hirose, F., Yamaguchi, M., Inoue, Y.H., Fujikake, N., Matsukage, A., Kakizuka, A.: "Identification of ter94, Drosophila VCP, as a modulator of polyglutamine-induced eye degeneration"Cell Death Differ.. 9. 264-273 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Hirose, F., Ohshima, N., Kwon, E.-J., Yoshida, H., Yamaguchi, M.: "Drosophila Mi-2 negatively regulates dDREF by inhibiting its DNA binding activity"Mol. Cell. Biol.. 22. 5182-5193 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Hwang M.-S., Kim Y.-S., Choi N.-H., Park J.-H., Oh E.-J., Kwon E.-J., Yamaguchi M., Yoo M.-A.: "The Caudal homeodomain protein activates Drosophila E2F gene expression"Nucleic Acids Res.. 23. 5029-5035 (2002)

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  • [Publications] 井上喜博: "ゲノムの複製と分配"松影昭夫・正井久雄編 シュプリンガーフエアラーク東京. 8 (2002)

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  • [Publications] 井上喜博, 西田育巧: "生物薬科学実験講座 8巻 遺伝子(II)"名取俊二 編 廣川書店. 10 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Kwon, E.-J., Oh, E.-J., Kim, Y.-S., Hirose, F., Ohno, K., Nishida, Y., Matsukage, A., Yamaguchi, M., Yoo, M.-A.: "Transcriptional regulation of the Drosophila raf proto-oncogene by the transcription factor dE2F"Nucleic Acids Res.. 29. 1808-1814 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Yamaguchi, M., Yoshida, H., Hirose, F., Inoue, Y. H., Hayashi, Y., Yamagishi, M., Nishi, Y., Tamai, K., Sakaguchi, K., Matsukage, A.: "Ectopic expression of BEAF32A in the Drosophila eye imaginal disc inhibits differentiation of photoreceptor cells and induces apoptosis"Chromosomal. 10. 313-321 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Yoshida, H., Inoue, Y. H., Hirose, F., Sakaguchi, K., Matsukage, A., Yamaguchi, M.: "Overexpression of DREF in the Drosophila wing imaginal disc induces apoptosis and a notching wing phenotype"Genes to Cells. 6. 877-886 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Hirose, F., Ohshima, N., Shiraki, M., Inoue, Y. H., Taguchi, O., Nishi, Y., Matsukage, A., Yamaguchi, M.: "Ectopic expression of DREF induces DNA synthesis, apoptosis and unusual morphogenesis in the Drosophila eye imaginal disc: possible interaction with Plycomb and trithorax group proteins"Mol. Cell. Biol.. 21. 7231-7242 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Takata, K., Yoshida, H., Hirose, F., Yamaguchi, M., Kai, M., Oshige, M., Sakimoto, I., Koiwai, O., Sakaguchi, K.: "Drosophila mitochondrial transcription factor A: Characterization of its cDNA and expression pattern during development"Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.. 287. 474-483 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Crevel, G., Ivetic, A., Ohno, K., Yamaguchi, M., Cotterill, S.: "Nearest neighbour analysis of MCM protein complexes in Drosophila melanogaster"Nucleic Acids Res.. 29. 4834-4842 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Higashiyama, H., Hirose, F., Yamaguchi, M., Inoue, Y. H., Fujikake, N., Matsukage, A., Kakizuka, A.: "Identification of ter94, Drosophila VCP, as e modulator of polyglutamine-induced neurodegeneration"Cell Death and Differentiation. 9. 264-273 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Hwang, M.-S., Kim, Y.-S., Choi, N.-H., Park, J.-H., Oh, E.-J., Kwon, E.-J., Yamaguchi, M., Yoo, M, -A.: "The Caudal homeodomain protein activates Drosophila E2F gene expression"Nucleic Acids Res.. 30. 5029-5035 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Hirose, F., Ohshima, N., Kwon, E.-J., Yoshida, H., Yamaguchi, M.: "Drosophila Mi-2 negatively regulates dDREF by inhibiting its DNA-binding activity"Mol. Cell. Biol.. 22. 5182-5193 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Kwon, E., Seto, H., Hirose, F., Ohshima, N., Takahashi, Y., Nishida, Y., Yamaguchi, M.: "Transcription control of a gene for Drosophila transcription factor, DREF by DRE and ciselements conserved between Drosophila melanogaster and virilis"Gene. in press.

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  • [Publications] Nagai, Y., Fujikake, N., Ohno, K., Higashiyama, H., Popiel, H. A., Rahadian, J., Yamaguchi. M., Strittmatter, W. J., Burke, J. R., Toda, T.: "Prevention of polyglutamine oligomerization and neurodegeneration by the peptide inhibitor QBP1 in Drosophila"Hum. Mol. Genet.. in press.

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  • [Publications] Takata, K., Inoue, Y. H., Hirose, F., Murakami, S., Shimanouchi, S., Sakimoto, I., Sakaguchi, K.: "Spatio-temporal expression of Drosophila mitochondrial transcription factor A during development"Cell Biology International. 27. 361-374 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Mathe, E., Inoue, Y. H., Palframan, W., Brown, G., Glover, D. M.: "Orbit/Mast, the CLASP orthologue of Drosophila, is required for asymmetric stem cell and cystocyte divisions anddevelopment of the polarised microtubule network that interconnects oocyte and nurse cells during oogenesis"Development. 130. 901-915 (2003)

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