[{"date_created":"2019-03-21T11:57:40Z","publisher":"CSH Press","intvolume":"         9","pmid":1,"publication_status":"published","extern":"1","publication":"Genes and Development","citation":{"ieee":"M. de Bono, D. Zarkower, and J. Hodgkin, “Dominant feminizing mutations implicate protein-protein interactions as the main mode of regulation of the nematode sex-determining gene tra-1,” <i>Genes and Development</i>, vol. 9, no. 2. CSH Press, pp. 155–167, 1995.","ista":"de Bono M, Zarkower D, Hodgkin J. 1995. Dominant feminizing mutations implicate protein-protein interactions as the main mode of regulation of the nematode sex-determining gene tra-1. Genes and Development. 9(2), 155–167.","apa":"de Bono, M., Zarkower, D., &#38; Hodgkin, J. (1995). Dominant feminizing mutations implicate protein-protein interactions as the main mode of regulation of the nematode sex-determining gene tra-1. <i>Genes and Development</i>. CSH Press. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.9.2.155\">https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.9.2.155</a>","short":"M. de Bono, D. Zarkower, J. Hodgkin, Genes and Development 9 (1995) 155–167.","mla":"de Bono, Mario, et al. “Dominant Feminizing Mutations Implicate Protein-Protein Interactions as the Main Mode of Regulation of the Nematode Sex-Determining Gene Tra-1.” <i>Genes and Development</i>, vol. 9, no. 2, CSH Press, 1995, pp. 155–67, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.9.2.155\">10.1101/gad.9.2.155</a>.","ama":"de Bono M, Zarkower D, Hodgkin J. Dominant feminizing mutations implicate protein-protein interactions as the main mode of regulation of the nematode sex-determining gene tra-1. <i>Genes and Development</i>. 1995;9(2):155-167. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.9.2.155\">10.1101/gad.9.2.155</a>","chicago":"Bono, Mario de, D. Zarkower, and J. Hodgkin. “Dominant Feminizing Mutations Implicate Protein-Protein Interactions as the Main Mode of Regulation of the Nematode Sex-Determining Gene Tra-1.” <i>Genes and Development</i>. CSH Press, 1995. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.9.2.155\">https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.9.2.155</a>."},"oa_version":"None","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"page":"155-167","_id":"6162","doi":"10.1101/gad.9.2.155","date_updated":"2021-01-12T08:06:29Z","publication_identifier":{"issn":["08909369"]},"user_id":"3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","type":"journal_article","issue":"2","year":"1995","author":[{"first_name":"Mario","orcid":"0000-0001-8347-0443","id":"4E3FF80E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"de Bono","full_name":"de Bono, Mario"},{"last_name":"Zarkower","full_name":"Zarkower, D.","first_name":"D."},{"first_name":"J.","full_name":"Hodgkin, J.","last_name":"Hodgkin"}],"month":"01","volume":9,"date_published":"1995-01-15T00:00:00Z","abstract":[{"text":"The tra-1 gene is the terminal global selector of somatic sex in Caenorhabditis elegans: High tra-1 activity elicits female somatic development while low tra-1 activity elicits male development. Previous genetic studies defined a cascade of negatively interacting genes that regulates tra-1 activity in response to the primary sex-determining signal. Here, we investigate the last step in this regulatory cascade, by studying rare gain-of-function (gf) mutations of tra-1 that direct female somatic development irrespective of the upstream sex-determining signal. These mutations appear to abolish negative regulation of tra-1 in male tissues. We identify the lesions associated with 29 of these mutations and find that all affect a short stretch of amino acid residues present in both protein products of the tra-1 gene. Twenty-six alleles are associated with single nonconservative amino acid substitutions. Two alleles affect tra-1 RNA splicing and generate messages that omit part or all of the exon encoding this short stretch. These results suggest that sexual regulation of tra-1 is achieved post-translationally, by an inhibitory protein-protein interaction. The amino acid stretch altered by the tra-1(gf) mutations may define a site of interaction for negative regulators of tra-1. The stretch includes a potential phosphorylation site for glycogen synthase kinase 3 and may be conserved in the human gene GLI3, a homolog of tra-1 identified previously.","lang":"eng"}],"external_id":{"pmid":["7851791"]},"status":"public","day":"15","quality_controlled":"1","title":"Dominant feminizing mutations implicate protein-protein interactions as the main mode of regulation of the nematode sex-determining gene tra-1"}]