Myohara M, Okada M. Digitonin treatment activates specific genes including the heat-shock genes in salivary glands of Drosophila melanogaster.
Dev Biol 1988;
130:348-55. [PMID:
3141232 DOI:
10.1016/0012-1606(88)90440-x]
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Abstract
A large number of chromosomal sites were found to form puffs in Drosophila salivary glands after treatment with the mild detergent digitonin and incubation in a defined medium for 2 hr. The cytological locations of these puffs were determined, and the puff size was measured at 43 loci in both digitonin-treated salivary glands and intact glands. On the basis of comparisons of puffing between digitonin-treated and intact salivary glands, the puffs were classified into three categories: (1) digitonin-unaffected preexisting puffs (8 sites), (2) digitonin-activated preexisting puffs (6 sites), and (3) digitonin-induced new puffs ("digitonin puffs", 29 sites). The digitonin puffs included some of the developmentally regulated puffs and all the heat-shock puffs known in Drosophila melanogaster. The activation of the specific loci by digitonin treatment suggests that gene expression at these loci is suppressed in salivary glands by a mechanism(s) sensitive to digitonin.
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