Damage-responsive, maturity-silenced enhancers regulate multiple genes that direct regeneration in Drosophila
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- 3 June 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd in eLife
Abstract
Like tissues of many organisms, Drosophila imaginal discs lose the ability to regenerate as they mature. This loss of regenerative capacity coincides with reduced damage-responsive expression of multiple genes needed for regeneration. We previously showed that two such genes, wg and Wnt6, are regulated by a single damage-responsive enhancer that becomes progressively inactivated via Polycomb-mediated silencing as discs mature (Harris et al., 2016). Here we explore the generality of this mechanism and identify additional damage-responsive, maturity-silenced (DRMS) enhancers, some near genes known to be required for regeneration such as Mmp1, and others near genes that we now show function in regeneration. Using a novel GAL4-independent ablation system we characterize two DRMS-associated genes, apontic (apt), which curtails regeneration and CG9752/asperous (aspr), which promotes it. This mechanism of suppressing regeneration by silencing damage-responsive enhancers at multiple loci can be partially overcome by reducing activity of the chromatin regulator extra sex combs (esc).Funding Information
- National Institutes of Health (R35 GM122490)
- American Cancer Society (RP-16238-06-COUN)
- National Institutes of Health (R35 GM128851)
- American Cancer Society (RSG-17-164-01-DDC)
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