Ch. Martin et al., COMPLETE SEQUENCE OF THE BITHORAX COMPLEX OF DROSOPHILA, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United Statesof America, 92(18), 1995, pp. 8398-8402
The bithorax complex (BX-C) of Drosophila, one of two complexes that a
ct as master regulators of the body plan of the fly, is included withi
n a sequence of 338,234 bp (SEQ89E). This paper presents the strategy
used in sequencing SEQ89E acid an analysis of its open reading frames.
The BX-C sequence (BXCALL) contains 314,895 bp obtained by deletion o
f putative genes that are located at each end of SEQ89E and appear to
be functionally unrelated to the BX-C, Only 1.4% of BXCALL codes for t
he three homeodomain-containing proteins of the complex. Principal fin
dings include a putative ABD-A protein (ABD-AII) larger than a previou
sly known ABD-A protein and a putative glucose transporter-like gene (
1521 bp) located at or near the bithoraxoid (bxd), infra-abdominal-2 (
iab-2) boundary on the opposite strand relative to that of the homeobo
x-containing genes.