GENE NETWORKS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER EYE DEVELOPMENT

果蝇眼睛发育中的基因网络

• 批准号: 8359761
• 负责人: JENNIFER R CURTISS
• 金额: $ 10.74万
• 依托单位: NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY LAS CRUCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-01 至 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8359761
• 关键词: Biomedical Research; Complex; Disease; Drosophila genus; Drosophila melanogaster; Eye; Eye Development; Funding; Gene Expression; Gene Expression Profile; Genes; Genetic; Grant; Histocompatibility Testing; Human; In Vitro; Individual; Knowledge; Modeling; Molecular Profiling; Mus; National Center for Research Resources; New Mexico; Nuclear; Principal Investigator; Research; Research Infrastructure; Resources; Signal Pathway; Source; Stem cells; Tissue Differentiation; Tissue-Specific Gene Expression; Tissues; United States National Institutes of Health; cancer therapy; cost; homeodomain; novel strategies; transcription factor

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. An understanding of the mechanisms regulating differentiation is clearly relevant to understanding and treatment of cancer and many other diseases, and will be necessary to make tissue differentiation in vitro or from stem cells a reality. Differentiation of tissue types results from differential gene expression, regulated in part at the level of the transcriptome. The homeodomain transcription factor Pax6 regulates eye-specific gene expression in such diverse metazoans as the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, mice and humans. Temporal and spatial information provided by signaling pathways is also essential for eye development. However, the transcriptional networks that govern eye development are extremely complex, and traditional genetic approaches alone have not been able to untangle the relationships among the individual factors. What is needed is a complete knowledge of the genes involved and how they interact with one another. Recent advances in massively parallel sequencing have made possible new approaches to transcriptome analysis. A complete understanding of the transcriptional networks that regulate differentiation of the eye will require knowledge of how the intrinsic input from tissue-specific transcription factors like Pax6 is integrated with extrinsic input from signaling pathways. Using the D. melanogaster eye as a model, massively parallel sequencing will be used to identify transcriptional targets potentially co-regulated by Pax6 and by signaling pathways important for eye development. Subsequently, computational approaches will be used to identify genes with similar expression profiles, and to identify genes directly regulated by Pax6 and the nuclear effectors of these signaling pathways.

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