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Lecture 31 - Developmental genetics I Flashcards

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Time for drosophila fertilized egg to adult fly

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10 days

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3 stages of drosophila development and time for each

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Embryonic stage (1 day), larval stage (4-5 days), Pupal stage (4-5 days)

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Embryonic stage description

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1 cell becomes alive animal with muscle, nervous system, trachea, …

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Larval stage description

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Growth stage, eats a lot and increases size and weight

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Pupal stage description

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Metamorphosis (transition from growth stage to reproductive stage). Reorganisation of tissues. Controlled by hormones

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3 main features of embryonic stage

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No zygotic transcription until 2h into embryogenesis
No plasma membrane (syncytium) in early embryogenesis
Maternal factors regulate early embryogenesis

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4 steps of the 2 first hours of embryogenesis (and time)

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Single-celled diploid zygote 
Multinucleated syncytium (70 min)
Syncytial blastoderm (120 min - 2h)
Cellular blastoderm (180 min - 3h)
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Multinucleated syncytium description

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9 nuclear divisons but still 1 cell in 1 membrane -> multinucleated syncytium

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Syncytial blastoderm description

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Nuclei migrate to the periphery of the embryo and divide 4 more times. Pole nuclei on one end

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Cellular blastoderm description

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Cell membrane grows around each nucleus. Pole nuclei become pole cells (primordial germ cells) on one end

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Description of the 2 hour embryo (syncytial blastoderm)

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4 segments (anterior/posterior + dorsal/ventral) established

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Description of the 10 hour embryo

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Number and orientation of segments (within segments) established. Distinguish head, thoracic segments and abdominal segments

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Observing drosophila embryogenesis video : 3 things to note

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13 synchronous divisions - 8000 nuclei. Back and forth pulling and stretching coordinated movement. Separation of segments and orientation

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Heidelberg screen what + goal

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Mutagenesis screen (forward genetics) to ID genes required for organizing the drosophila embryo

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2 screens in the Heidelberg screen

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  1. For genes required in the mother for normal development of the embryo
  2. For genes required in the embryo’s genome
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Name of genes in the first screen done and idea behind it (why do it)

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Maternal-effect genes. Early embryo: maternal mRNA deposited into the egg and required for early dev. before zygotic transcription

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What determines if embryos of a mother will have normal or mutant phenotype associated with early dev. (before zygotic transcription)

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Mother has to carry one copy of maternal-effect gene and all offspring will be normal

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Maternal-effect gene, offspring phenotypes in these crosses. m/+ father x m/+ mother. m/m father x m/+ mother. anything father x m/m mother.

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Normal. Normal. Mutant.

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Maternal effect gene : m/+ father x m/+ mother -> 1 +/+ , 2 m/+ , 1 m/m -> phenotypes of these offsprings

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All normal, even the m/m offspring (simply because mother is m/+ and carries a WT copy of the maternal-effect gene)

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Name of genes in second screen and inheritance pattern followed

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Zygotic genes. Mendelian inheritance pattern.

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m/+ father x m/+ mother for zygotic genes. offspring pheno ratio

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3 normal (+/.) 1 mutant (m/m)

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Common characteristic the identified genes were found to have

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Most are transcription factors

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5 categories they put the genes from the screen in + maternal-effect or zygotic. + based on what

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Based on ressemblant mutant phenotype. Egg-polarity genes (maternal). Gap genes, pair-rule genes, segment polarity genes, segment identity genes (zygotic)

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Maternal effect genes general function

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Establish anterior-posterior (AP) axis

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2 maternal-effect genes + function and type

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Bicoid (TF) : anterior structures (head, thoracic segments)

Nanos (translational repressor protein): posterior segments (abdominal)

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Regions affected in bicoid and nanos mutant

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Bicoid mutant: Anterior embryo affected

Nanos mutant: Posterior embryo missing/affected

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Observation when labelled bicoid protein in white

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Localizes more to anterior region and less and less to posterior region

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General conclusion about the observation on bicoid gradient

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Factors (mRNA) from the mother localize to specific regions. Embryo’s nuclei are all exposed to different amount of each protein.

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Bicoid mRNA localization and where it is translated

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Localized in anterior region only. Translated in anterior region into bicoid protein

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Bicoid protein localization and how is this important

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Diffuses because still multinucleated syncyntium. Gradient from A to P. More in A and less and less towards P. Gives information on distance from anterior

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How would bicoid protein/bicoid mRNA localize if there was a plasma membrane separation in the multinucleated syncytium’s nuclei

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Bicoid protein would only localize to anterior, just like bicoid mRNA (couldn’t diffuse)

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2 experiments done to show that bicoid mRNA is sufficient to form anterior structures

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  1. Synthesized bicoid mRNA, injected in bicoid mutant, and rescued pheno (developped anterior part)
  2. Injected mRNA in middle of embryo and head/anterior-like structure developped there
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Nanos mRNA and protein, where they localize

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Nanos mRNA : localizes to posterior region. Nanos protein gradient from P to A (more towards P less towards A) bc can diffuse

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Nanos protein type and mode of action

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Translational repressor. Binds RNA and inhibits translation

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Maternal hunchback mRNA and protein distribution

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HB mat mRNA uniformly distributed. HB mat protein slightly more towards A and less and less towards P

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Maternal hunchback type of protein

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transcription factor

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Nanos, what it does and what it explains

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Translational repressor of maternal Hunchback. It explains the HB mat protein gradient, opposite to nanos gradient.

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4 maternally loaded factors (3 already seen) and their A-P distribution

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Bicoid (BCD) and maternal hunchback (HB mat): more in A and less and less towards P
Caudal (CAD) and Nanos (NOS): more in P and less and less towards P

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Appearance of offspring of nos-/nos- male and bcd+/bcd- female and why

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100% WT appearance. female has a WT copy of bcd and nanos

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Gap genes: number IDed and what they do

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9 IDed. Translate maternal-effect genes A-P gradient into BROAD subdomains (not individual segments yet)

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Gap genes type of protein and maternal-effect or zygotic

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Gap genes = ALL transcription factors. Zygotic genes

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How gap genes discovered

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Mutants found missing several consecutive segments and were mutant in zygotic genes

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Gap genes some examples

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zygotic hunchback, kruppel, knirps, giant

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Gap genes: how they translate maternal-effect genes A-P gradient into broad subdomains

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Gap genes are transcriptionally activated or repressed over certain regions by maternal-effect genes

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Which maternal-effect gene regulates HB-z expression

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Bicoid protein

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HB-z mRNA localization/gradient (mRNA means transcription occured)

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Anterior region and is not a gradient but rather sharp border between region where present and region where absent

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How Bcd regulates HB-z expression and advantage of that

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Hb-z has 3 enhancers (binding sites) for Bcd protein. Allows more sensitive detection of GRADIENT of bcd protein

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What 2 factors can influence activation of a gene (like the HB-z gene for example).

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Concentration of transcriptional activator (ex. Bcd) and number of enhancer (binding) sites

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Experiment done to test the effect of multiple binding site for Bcd on the Hb-z gene and results

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Introduced Hb-z constructs with 0,1,2 binding sites for Bcd and noticed that more binding sites = larger anterior region (Hb-z expressed further from anterior)

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2 extreme situations of TF concentration and number of binding sites (important concept for embryonic development)

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Genes with only one binding site for their TF will only be expressed where TF concentration is high
Genes with the most binding sites for their TF are the only ones expressed when the TF concentration is low

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What controls the pattern of Gap genes expression (2)

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The previously established gradients of maternal-effect proteins (bcd, hb mat, nanos, cad)
Other gap genes gradient (they feedback on each other too)

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Pair-rule genes: Number identified. Type of protein. Pattern of expression

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8 identified. ALL TFs. Expressed in alternating segments.

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What happens in pair-rule genes mutant

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Alternating segments are missing but ones in between are present

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Some pair-rule genes examples

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even-skipped, fushi tarazu, odd-skipped, paired, runt

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What regulates Eve (even-skipped) transcription in stripe 2 (and pair-rule genes transcription in stripes in general)

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The high Hb-z concentration, medium Bcd concentration, low Gt and low Kr concentration.
In general, enhancers tailored to act within specific concentrations of diff TFs.

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What is responsible for the regularity in the stripes of expression of pair-rule gene

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Independent enhancers in each stripe.

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Some enhancers (activators’ sites) and silencers (repressors’ sites) for the eve gene

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Enhancers: Bcd-1 to Bcd-5, Hb-z 3
Silencers: Kr3 to Kr5, Gt1 to Gt3

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Other name for maternal-effect genes

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Egg-polarity genes

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