In Vitro Site Selection of a Consensus Binding Site for the Drosophila melanogaster Tbx20 Homolog Midline

We employed in vitro site selection to identify a consensus binding sequence for the Drosophila melanogaster Tbx20 T-box transcription factor homolog Midline. We purified a bacterially expressed T-box DNA binding domain of Midline, and used it in four rounds of precipitation and polymerase-chain-reaction based amplification. We cloned and sequenced 54 random oligonucleotides selected by Midline. Electromobility shift-assays confirmed that 27 of these could bind the Midline T-box. Sequence alignment of these 27 clones suggests that Midline binds as a monomer to a consensus sequence that contains an AGGTGT core. Thus, the Midline consensus binding site we define in this study is similar to that defined for vertebrate Tbx20, but differs from a previously reported Midline binding sequence derived through site selection.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  PLoS ONE

• Publication date

  2012-10-25

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0048176PMID 23133562PMCID 3485041
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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