PMID- 18031354 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20071218 LR - 20190524 IS - 1601-5223 (Electronic) IS - 0018-0661 (Linking) VI - 144 IP - 5 DP - 2007 Nov TI - Involvement of co-repressors Groucho and CtBP in the regulation of single-minded in Drosophila. PG - 195-205 AB - Dorso-ventral patterning results in the establishment of the two germ layers in the Drosophila embryo, mesoderm and mesectoderm, that are separated by a strip of cells giving rise to the mesectoderm and eventually to the ventral midline. The mesectoderm is specified by the expression of single-minded (sim) which is activated through the concerted action of Dorsal and Twist in addition to a Notch signal. In the mesoderm, sim is repressed by Snail together with the co-repressor C-terminal binding protein (CtBP). Here, we address the involvement of the two co-repressors CtBP and Groucho (Gro) in repression of sim in the neuroectoderm. It was shown earlier that sim is restricted in the neuroectoderm with help of Suppressor of Hairless [Su(H)] and Hairless. Using the female sterile technique, we generated germ line clones deficient for Gro, CtBP or Hairless and assayed sim mRNA relative to snail mRNA expression. We show that sim repression requires both co-repressors Gro and CtBP to be fully repressed in the neuroectoderm, suggesting that a repression complex is assembled including Su(H) and Hairless as was shown for other Notch target genes before. Moreover, our work implies that Gro is important for the repression of sim specifically within the mesoderm anlagen, indicating that Snail and CtBP are insufficient to entirely silence sim in this germ layer. FAU - Nagel, Anja C AU - Nagel AC AD - Universitat Hohenheim, Institut fur Genetik, Stuttgart, Germany. FAU - Wech, Irmgard AU - Wech I FAU - Schwinkendorf, Daniela AU - Schwinkendorf D FAU - Preiss, Anette AU - Preiss A LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - England TA - Hereditas JT - Hereditas JID - 0374654 RN - 0 (Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors) RN - 0 (DNA-Binding Proteins) RN - 0 (Drosophila Proteins) RN - 0 (Nuclear Proteins) RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) RN - 0 (Repressor Proteins) RN - 0 (Snail Family Transcription Factors) RN - 0 (Su(H) protein, Drosophila) RN - 0 (Transcription Factors) RN - 0 (gro protein, Drosophila) RN - 0 (sim protein, Drosophila) RN - 0 (sna protein, Drosophila) RN - 148349-66-0 (H protein, Drosophila) RN - EC 1.1.- (Alcohol Oxidoreductases) RN - EC 1.1.1.- (C-terminal binding protein) SB - IM MH - Alcohol Oxidoreductases/*physiology MH - Animals MH - Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/genetics/*metabolism/*physiology MH - DNA-Binding Proteins/*physiology MH - Drosophila/*embryology MH - Drosophila Proteins/genetics/*metabolism/physiology MH - Neural Plate/metabolism MH - Nuclear Proteins/genetics/*metabolism MH - RNA, Messenger/analysis MH - Repressor Proteins/*physiology MH - Snail Family Transcription Factors MH - Transcription Factors/physiology EDAT- 2007/11/23 09:00 MHDA- 2007/12/19 09:00 CRDT- 2007/11/23 09:00 PHST- 2007/11/23 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/12/19 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2007/11/23 09:00 [entrez] AID - HRD2020 [pii] AID - 10.1111/j.2007.0018-0661.02020.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Hereditas. 2007 Nov;144(5):195-205. doi: 10.1111/j.2007.0018-0661.02020.x.