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Phenotypic robustness conferred by apparently redundant transcriptional enhancers

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  • Nicolás Frankel

    (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA)

  • Gregory K. Davis

    (Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Ave, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010, USA)

  • Diego Vargas

    (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA)

  • Shu Wang

    (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA)

  • François Payre

    (Université de Toulouse and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Biologie du Développement, UMR5547, Toulouse, F-31062, France)

  • David L. Stern

    (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA)

Abstract

Back-up enhancers protect phenotype Transcriptional enhancers are segments of regulatory DNA located some distance from the coding region of a gene. Sometimes, several of them can serve apparently redundant functions — driving the production of a gene's messenger RNA at the same stage and place in embryonic development. Frankel et al. now demonstrate in Drosophila that such 'redundant' enhancers (in this case, two enhancers of the embryo-patterning gene shavenbaby), by contributing higher overall levels of transcription, ensure robustness of phenotypes against both genetic and environmental perturbations; for example, mutations in other genes or temperature changes that would otherwise lead to aberrant development.

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  • Nicolás Frankel & Gregory K. Davis & Diego Vargas & Shu Wang & François Payre & David L. Stern, 2010. "Phenotypic robustness conferred by apparently redundant transcriptional enhancers," Nature, Nature, vol. 466(7305), pages 490-493, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:466:y:2010:i:7305:d:10.1038_nature09158
    DOI: 10.1038/nature09158
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