Product of per locus of Drosophila shares homology with proteoglycans
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 320 (6058), 185-188
- https://doi.org/10.1038/320185a0
Abstract
Genes controlling biological rhythms have been identified in Drosophila. The best characterized of these genes is called period (per). Although wild-type flies have daily (circadian) rhythms with a periodicity of approximately 24 h, pers and per1 mutants have 19-h and 29-h rhythms, respectively, and pero mutants are arrhythmic. The pers mutation also enhances the sensitivity of the circadian clock to resetting by light stimuli, and all three types of per mutations affect a much shorter period ultradian rhythm, the 55-s rhythm of the Drosophila courtship song. A fragment of DNA of approximately 7 kilobases (kb) encoding a 4.5-kb poly(A)+ RNA restores rhythmicity when transduced into Drosophila carrying mutations or chromosomal deletions of the per locus. Here we report the sequence of this biologically active segment of DNA. The transcription unit that encodes the 4.5-kb RNA has been mapped, permitting a conceptual translation of a protein of 1,127 amino acids. Several abnormal phenotypes characterized by long-period rhythms are associated with changes in the sequence of untranslated portions of the transcription unit. The structure of some segments of the predicted protein suggests that it is a proteoglycan.Keywords
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