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Jacobs D et al. (1997) International C. elegans Meeting "GAIN-OF-FUNCTION MUTATIONS SUGGEST LIN-1 IS NEGATIVELY REGULATED BY MAP KINASE PHOSPHORYLATION"

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    WormBase ID:
    WBPaper00022395

    Jacobs D, Beitel GJ, Horvitz HR, & Kornfeld K (1997). GAIN-OF-FUNCTION MUTATIONS SUGGEST LIN-1 IS NEGATIVELY REGULATED BY MAP KINASE PHOSPHORYLATION presented in International C. elegans Meeting. Unpublished information; cite only with author permission.

    lin-1(lf) mutations cause a highly expressive multivulva phenotype suggesting lin-1 is an important negative regulator of the 1! vulval cell fate. Genes in the ras signaling pathway promote the 1! fate, and epistasis analyses suggest lin-1 functions downstream of these genes, including mpk-1 MAP kinase, suggesting lin-1 is negatively regulated by the action of this signaling pathway. The predicted LIN-1 protein contains an N-terminal ets domain, suggesting LIN-1 may be a DNA-binding transcription factor. We identified four different lin-1 mutations that cause partially penetrant larval lethality characterized by a rod-like morphology and vulval defects typical of a lack of vulval induction. These same phenotypes are caused by loss-of-function mutations in genes in the ras signaling pathway but are the opposite of the phenotypes caused by a loss-of-function mutation in lin-1. Dosage studies suggest that these four lin-1 alleles are gain-of-function mutations. We determined the base changes present in these alleles, and each is predicted to affect the C-terminal region of LIN-1. This region appears to be highly divergent from but nonetheless similar to regions of vertebrate ets domain-containing proteins that are phosphorylated and thereby regulated by MAP kinase. These observations suggest that the C-terminus of LIN-1 is phosphorylated by MAP kinase, that this phosphorylation negatively regulates the activity of LIN-1, and that the mutant LIN-1 proteins have lost the ability to be phosphorylated and thereby negatively regulated but retain the ability to inhibit the 1! vulval cell fate. We are currently testing these biochemical hypotheses.

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    - Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, Washington U. Medical School, St. Louis, MO 63110 USA HHMI, Dept. Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA


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