Evolutionarily Conserved E(y)2/Sus1 Protein Is Essential for the Barrier Activity of Su(Hw)-Dependent Insulators in Drosophila

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• 作者：Maria Kurshakova ; Oksana Maksimenko ; Anton Golovnin ; Maria Pulina ; Sofia Georgieva ; Pavel Georgiev ; Aleksey Krasnov
• 关键词：DNA
• 刊名：Molecular Cell
• 出版年：2007
• 出版时间：20 July 2007
• 年：2007
• 卷：27
• 期：2
• 页码：332-338
• 全文大小：516 K

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Chromatin insulators affect interactions between promoters and enhancers/silencers and function as barriers for spreading of repressive chromatin. The Su(Hw) protein is responsible for activity of the best-studied Drosophila insulators. Here we demonstrate that an evolutionarily conserved protein, E(y)2/Sus1, is recruited to the Su(Hw) insulators via binding to the zinc-finger domain of Su(Hw). Partial inactivation of E(y)2 in a weak mutation, e(y)2^u1, impairs only the barrier, but not the enhancer-blocking, activity of the Su(Hw) insulators. Whereas neither su(Hw)⁻ nor e(y)2^u1 affects fly viability, their combination proves lethal, testifying to functional interaction between Su(Hw) and E(y)2 in vivo. Apparently, different domains of Su(Hw) recruit proteins responsible for enhancer-blocking and for the barrier activity.