Figure 2. Molecular structure of
sor-3 and its expression pattern. (A) Cosmid C04E7 and the PCR fragment containing C04E7.2 can fully rescue the mutant defects in
sor-3, whereas the neighboring cosmids F52D1, ZK1193, M02E1, and F38G1 cannot rescue the
sor-3 mutant defects. The cDNA sequence of
sor-3 was confirmed by sequencing RT-PCR products. Sixty-three base pairs in the predicted
sor-3 gene are not present in our cDNAs. The length of the introns and exons is not to scale. (B) Protein sequence of SOR-3.
sor-3(
bp185) contains a glutamine to stop-codon mutation, deleting the C-terminal 62 aa. The MBT domain is marked in blue. (C) Alignment of the MBT domains found in SOR-3, mouse PcG protein Sfmbt, and fly PcG proteins Sex combs on midleg (SCM). The identical amino acids found in the SOR-3 MBT domain and at least in one other MBT domain are highlighted. (D and E) Expression of
sor-3::gfp in developing embryos (D) and larvae (E).
sor-3 is expressed in all cells examined. (F) SOR-3 is localized in both nucleus and cytoplasm but excluded from nucleolus.