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Molecular and Cellular Biology, December 1998, p. 7075-7085, Vol. 18, No. 12
0270-7306/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Homology-Dependent Maternal Inhibition of Developmental Excision of Internal Eliminated Sequences in Paramecium tetraurelia

Sandra Duharcourt,1 Anne-Marie Keller,2 and Eric Meyer1,*

Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris,1 and Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette,2 France

Received 9 March 1998/Returned for modification 6 May 1998/Accepted 1 September 1998

Thousands of single-copy internal eliminated sequences (IESs) are excised from the germ line genome of ciliates during development of the polygenomic somatic macronucleus, following sexual events. Paramecium IESs are short, noncoding elements that frequently interrupt coding sequences. No absolutely conserved sequence element, other than flanking 5'-TA-3' direct repeats, has been identified among sequenced IESs; the mechanisms of their specific recognition and precise elimination are unknown. Previous work has revealed the existence of an epigenetic control of excision. It was shown that the presence of one IES in the vegetative macronucleus results in a specific inhibition of the excision of the same element during the development of a new macronucleus, in the following sexual generation. We have assessed the generality and sequence specificity of this transnuclear maternal control by studying the effects of macronuclear transformation with 13 different IESs. We show that at least five of them can be maintained in the new macronuclear genome; sequence specificity is complete both between genes and between different IESs in the same gene. In all cases, the degree of excision inhibition correlates with the copy number of the maternal IES, but each IES shows a characteristic inhibition efficiency. Short internal IES-like segments were found to be excised from two of the IESs when excision between normal boundaries was inhibited. Available data suggest that the sequence specificity of these maternal effects is mediated by pairing interactions between homologous nucleic acids.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, ENS, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France. Phone: 33 (1) 44 32 39 49. Fax: 33 (1) 44 32 39 41. E-mail: emeyer{at}wotan.ens.fr.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, December 1998, p. 7075-7085, Vol. 18, No. 12
0270-7306/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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