Herbert Jäckle

Dual Lipolytic Control of Body Fat Storage and Mobilization in Drosophila (2007)

Sebastian Grönke, Günter Müller, Jochen Hirsch, Sonja Fellert, Alexandra Andreou, Tobias Haase, ...

Energy homeostasis is a fundamental property of animal life, providing a genetically fixed balance between fat storage and mobilization. The importance of body fat regulation is emphasized by...

Gain-of-Function Screen for Genes That Affect Drosophila Muscle Pattern Formation (2005)

Nicole Staudt, Andreas Molitor, Kalman Somogyi, Juan Mata, Silvia Curado, Karsten Eulenberg, ...

This article reports the production of an EP-element insertion library with more than 3,700 unique target sites within the Drosophila melanogaster genome and its use to systematically identify genes...

Receptor tyrosine kinase signaling regulates different modes of Groucho-dependent control of Dorsal (2000)

Häder, Thomas, Wainwright, David, Shandala, Tatiana, Saint, Robert Bryce, Taubert, Heike, Brönner, Günter, ...

Transcriptional control of the Drosophila terminal gap gene huckebein (hkb) depends on Torso (Tor) receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) signaling and the Rel/NFκB homolog Dorsal (Dl) [1, 2, 3 and 4]. Dl...

Receptor tyrosine kinase signaling regulates different modes of Groucho-dependent control of Dorsal (2000)

Häder, Thomas, Wainwright, David, Shandala, Tatiana, Saint, Robert Bryce, Taubert, Heike, Brönner, Günter, ...

Transcriptional control of the Drosophila terminal gap gene huckebein (hkb) depends on Torso (Tor) receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) signaling and the Rel/NFκB homolog Dorsal (Dl) [1, 2, 3 and 4]. Dl...

Drosophila head segmentation factor Buttonhead interacts with the same TATA box-binding protein-associated factors and in vivo DNA targets as human Sp1 but executes a different biological program

Schöck, Frieder, Sauer, Frank, Jäckle, Herbert, Purnell, Beverly A.

The Drosophila gene buttonhead (btd) is required for the establishment of three embryonic head segments. It encodes a zinc-finger-type transcription factor expressed in the corresponding head segment...

The anterior determinant bicoid of Drosophila is a derived Hox class 3 gene

Stauber, Michael, Jäckle, Herbert, Schmidt-Ott, Urs

The Drosophila gene bicoid functions as the anterior body pattern organizer of Drosophila. Embryos lacking maternally expressed bicoid fail to develop anterior segments including head and thorax. In...

Epidermal muscle attachment site-specific target gene expression and interference with myotube guidance in response to ectopic stripe expression in the developing Drosophila epidermis

Vorbrüggen, Gerd, Jäckle, Herbert

The egr-type zinc-finger transcription factor encoded by the Drosophila gene stripe (sr) is expressed in a subset of epidermal cells to which muscles attach during late stages of embryogenesis. We...

A modifier screen in the eye reveals control genes for Krüppel activity in the Drosophila embryo

Carrera, Pilar, Abrell, Sarah, Kerber, Birgit, Walldorf, Uwe, Preiss, Anette, Hoch, Michael, ...

Irregular facets (If) is a dominant mutation of Drosophila that results in small eyes with fused ommatidia. Previous results showed that the gene Krüppel (Kr), which is best known for its early...

Bicoid associates with the 5′-cap-bound complex of caudal mRNA and represses translation

Niessing, Dierk, Blanke, Stephen, Jäckle, Herbert

Translational control plays a key role in many biological processes including pattern formation during early Drosophila embryogenesis. In this process, the anterior determinant Bicoid (BCD) acts not...

mBtd is required to maintain signaling during murine limb development

Treichel, Dieter, Schöck, Frieder, Jäckle, Herbert, Gruss, Peter, Mansouri, Ahmed

buttonhead (btd) encodes an SP1-like transcription factor required for the generation and specification of Drosophila head segments. We identified a murine btd homolog, termed mouse Btd (mBtd), which...

From First Base: The Sequence of the Tip of the X Chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, a Comparison of Two Sequencing Strategies

Benos, Panayiotis V., Gatt, Melanie K., Murphy, Lee, Harris, David, Barrell, Bart, Ferraz, Concepcion, ...

We present the sequence of a contiguous 2.63 Mb of DNA extending from the tip of the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. Within this sequence, we predict 277 protein coding genes, of which 94...

Molecular characterization of spalt, a homeotic gene required for head and tail development in the Drosophila embryo

Frei, Erich, Schuh, Reinhard, Baumgartner, Stefan, Burri, Maya, Noll, Markus, Jürgens, Gerd, ...

The isolation, identification and structure of the spalt gene is described. This novel homeotic gene of Drosophila is required for the establishment of the posterior-most head and the anterior-most...

The gooseberry–zipper region of Drosophila: five genes encode different spatially restricted transcripts in the embryo

Côté, Serge, Preiss, Anette, Haller, Jochen, Schuh, Reinhard, Kienlin, Andrea, Seifert, Eveline, ...

Genetic analysis of the Drosophila chromosome region 60 E9-F1 identified two functions affecting embryonic development; gooseberry (gsb), a segment polarity gene, and zipper (zip), an unclassified...

Molecular cloning of microdissected lampbrush loop DNA sequences of Drosophila hydei

Hennig, Wolfgang, Huijser, Peter, Vogt, Peter, Jäckle, Herbert, Edström, Jan-Erik

We microdissected a Y chromosomal lampbrush loop pair from primary spermatocyte nuclei of Drosophila hydei and cloned the DNA directly at the microscale. Four of the 12 recombinant DNA clones...

Tip cell-derived RTK signaling initiates cell movements in the Drosophila stomatogastric nervous system anlage

González-Gaitán, Marcos, Jäckle, Herbert

The stomatogastric nervous system (SNS) of Drosophila is a simply organized neural circuitry that innervates the anterior enteric system. Unlike the central and the peripheral nervous systems, the...

The class 2 selenophosphate synthetase gene of Drosophila contains a functional mammalian-type SECIS

Hirosawa-Takamori, Mitsuko, Jäckle, Herbert, Vorbrüggen, Gerd

Synthesis of monoselenophosphate, the selenium donor required for the synthesis of selenocysteine (Sec) is catalyzed by the enzyme selenophosphate synthetase (SPS), first described in Escherichia...

The Drosophila homolog of the human AF10 is an HP1-interacting suppressor of position effect variegation

Linder, Britta, Gerlach, Nina, Jäckle, Herbert

In chromosomal rearrangements of acute myeloid leukaemia patients the mixed lineage leukaemia (MLL) gene, a human homolog of the Drosophila gene trithorax, is frequently fused to AF10. Here we...

Mapping and identification of essential gene functions on the X chromosome of Drosophila

Peter, Annette, Schöttler, Petra, Werner, Meike, Beinert, Nicole, Dowe, Gordon, Burkert, Peter, ...

The Drosophila melanogaster genome consists of four chromosomes that contain 165 Mb of DNA, 120 Mb of which are euchromatic. The two Drosophila Genome Projects, in collaboration with Celera Genomics...

Gain-of-Function Screen for Genes That Affect Drosophila Muscle Pattern Formation

Staudt, Nicole, Molitor, Andreas, Somogyi, Kalman, Mata, Juan, Curado, Silvia, Eulenberg, Karsten, ...

This article reports the production of an EP-element insertion library with more than 3,700 unique target sites within the Drosophila melanogaster genome and its use to systematically identify genes...

Conserved selenoprotein synthesis is not critical for oxidative stress defence and the lifespan of Drosophila

Hirosawa-Takamori, Mitsuko, Chung, Ho-Ryun, Jäckle, Herbert

Selenoprotein synthesis is conserved from bacteria to man. It involves the differential decoding of the UGA stop codon as selenocysteine. The proteomes of both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, with the...

Follicle separation during Drosophila oogenesis requires the activity of the Kinesin II-associated polypeptide Kap in germline cells

Pflanz, Ralf, Peter, Annette, Schäfer, Ulrich, Jäckle, Herbert

Cellular localization of organelles, protein complexes and single mRNAs depends on the directed transport along microtubule tracks, a process mediated by ATP-driven molecular motor proteins of the...

Genomic expansion and clustering of ZAD-containing C2H2 zinc-finger genes in Drosophila

Chung, Ho-Ryun, Schäfer, Ulrich, Jäckle, Herbert, Böhm, Siegfried

C2H2 zinc-finger proteins (ZFPs) constitute the largest family of nucleic acid binding factors in higher eukaryotes. In silico analysis identified a total of 326 putative ZFP genes in the Drosophila...

Control of triglyceride storage by a WD40/TPR-domain protein

Häder, Thomas, Müller, Sandra, Aguilera, Miguel, Eulenberg, Karsten G., Steuernagel, Arnd, Ciossek, Thomas, ...

Obesity is a metabolic disorder related to improper control of energy uptake and expenditure, which results in excessive accumulation of body fat. Initial insights into the genetic pathways that...

Tousled-like kinase functions with the chromatin assembly pathway regulating nuclear divisions

Carrera, Pilar, Moshkin, Yuri M., Grönke, Sebastian, Silljé, Herman H.W., Nigg, Erich A., Jäckle, Herbert, ...

Tousled-like kinases (TLKs) constitute a family of serine/threonine kinases conserved in plants and animals that act in a cell cycle-dependent manner. In mammals, their activity peaks during S phase,...

Mutations of the Drosophila Zinc Finger-encoding Gene vielfältig Impair Mitotic Cell Divisions and Cause Improper Chromosome SegregationV⃞

Staudt, Nicole, Fellert, Sonja, Chung, Ho-Ryun, Jäckle, Herbert, Vorbrüggen, Gerd

We describe the molecular characterization and function of vielfältig (vfl), a X-chromosomal gene that encodes a nuclear protein with six Krüppel-like C2H2 zinc finger motifs. vfl transcripts are...

Drosophila head segmentation factor Buttonhead interacts with the same TATA box-binding protein-associated factors and in vivo DNA targets as human Sp1 but executes a different biological program

Schöck, Frieder, Sauer, Frank, Jäckle, Herbert, Purnell, Beverly A.

The Drosophila gene buttonhead (btd) is required for the establishment of three embryonic head segments. It encodes a zinc-finger-type transcription factor expressed in the corresponding head segment...

The anterior determinant bicoid of Drosophila is a derived Hox class 3 gene

Stauber, Michael, Jäckle, Herbert, Schmidt-Ott, Urs

The Drosophila gene bicoid functions as the anterior body pattern organizer of Drosophila. Embryos lacking maternally expressed bicoid fail to develop anterior segments including head and thorax. In...

Epidermal muscle attachment site-specific target gene expression and interference with myotube guidance in response to ectopic stripe expression in the developing Drosophila epidermis

Vorbrüggen, Gerd, Jäckle, Herbert

The egr-type zinc-finger transcription factor encoded by the Drosophila gene stripe (sr) is expressed in a subset of epidermal cells to which muscles attach during late stages of embryogenesis. We...

A modifier screen in the eye reveals control genes for Krüppel activity in the Drosophila embryo

Carrera, Pilar, Abrell, Sarah, Kerber, Birgit, Walldorf, Uwe, Preiss, Anette, Hoch, Michael, ...

Irregular facets (If) is a dominant mutation of Drosophila that results in small eyes with fused ommatidia. Previous results showed that the gene Krüppel (Kr), which is best known for its early...

Bicoid associates with the 5′-cap-bound complex of caudal mRNA and represses translation

Niessing, Dierk, Blanke, Stephen, Jäckle, Herbert

Translational control plays a key role in many biological processes including pattern formation during early Drosophila embryogenesis. In this process, the anterior determinant Bicoid (BCD) acts not...

Tousled-like kinase functions with the chromatin assembly pathway regulating nuclear divisions

Carrera, Pilar, Moshkin, Yuri M., Grönke, Sebastian, Silljé, Herman H.W., Nigg, Erich A., Jäckle, Herbert, ...

Tousled-like kinases (TLKs) constitute a family of serine/threonine kinases conserved in plants and animals that act in a cell cycle-dependent manner. In mammals, their activity peaks during S phase,...

mBtd is required to maintain signaling during murine limb development

Treichel, Dieter, Schöck, Frieder, Jäckle, Herbert, Gruss, Peter, Mansouri, Ahmed

buttonhead (btd) encodes an SP1-like transcription factor required for the generation and specification of Drosophila head segments. We identified a murine btd homolog, termed mouse Btd (mBtd), which...

From First Base: The Sequence of the Tip of the X Chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, a Comparison of Two Sequencing Strategies

Benos, Panayiotis V., Gatt, Melanie K., Murphy, Lee, Harris, David, Barrell, Bart, Ferraz, Concepcion, ...

We present the sequence of a contiguous 2.63 Mb of DNA extending from the tip of the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. Within this sequence, we predict 277 protein coding genes, of which 94...

Molecular characterization of spalt, a homeotic gene required for head and tail development in the Drosophila embryo

Frei, Erich, Schuh, Reinhard, Baumgartner, Stefan, Burri, Maya, Noll, Markus, Jürgens, Gerd, ...

The isolation, identification and structure of the spalt gene is described. This novel homeotic gene of Drosophila is required for the establishment of the posterior-most head and the anterior-most...

The gooseberry–zipper region of Drosophila: five genes encode different spatially restricted transcripts in the embryo

Côté, Serge, Preiss, Anette, Haller, Jochen, Schuh, Reinhard, Kienlin, Andrea, Seifert, Eveline, ...

Genetic analysis of the Drosophila chromosome region 60 E9-F1 identified two functions affecting embryonic development; gooseberry (gsb), a segment polarity gene, and zipper (zip), an unclassified...

Molecular cloning of microdissected lampbrush loop DNA sequences of Drosophila hydei

Hennig, Wolfgang, Huijser, Peter, Vogt, Peter, Jäckle, Herbert, Edström, Jan-Erik

We microdissected a Y chromosomal lampbrush loop pair from primary spermatocyte nuclei of Drosophila hydei and cloned the DNA directly at the microscale. Four of the 12 recombinant DNA clones...

Tip cell-derived RTK signaling initiates cell movements in the Drosophila stomatogastric nervous system anlage

González-Gaitán, Marcos, Jäckle, Herbert

The stomatogastric nervous system (SNS) of Drosophila is a simply organized neural circuitry that innervates the anterior enteric system. Unlike the central and the peripheral nervous systems, the...

The class 2 selenophosphate synthetase gene of Drosophila contains a functional mammalian-type SECIS

Hirosawa-Takamori, Mitsuko, Jäckle, Herbert, Vorbrüggen, Gerd

Synthesis of monoselenophosphate, the selenium donor required for the synthesis of selenocysteine (Sec) is catalyzed by the enzyme selenophosphate synthetase (SPS), first described in Escherichia...

The Drosophila homolog of the human AF10 is an HP1-interacting suppressor of position effect variegation

Linder, Britta, Gerlach, Nina, Jäckle, Herbert

In chromosomal rearrangements of acute myeloid leukaemia patients the mixed lineage leukaemia (MLL) gene, a human homolog of the Drosophila gene trithorax, is frequently fused to AF10. Here we...

Mapping and identification of essential gene functions on the X chromosome of Drosophila

Peter, Annette, Schöttler, Petra, Werner, Meike, Beinert, Nicole, Dowe, Gordon, Burkert, Peter, ...

The Drosophila melanogaster genome consists of four chromosomes that contain 165 Mb of DNA, 120 Mb of which are euchromatic. The two Drosophila Genome Projects, in collaboration with Celera Genomics...

Gain-of-Function Screen for Genes That Affect Drosophila Muscle Pattern Formation

Staudt, Nicole, Molitor, Andreas, Somogyi, Kalman, Mata, Juan, Curado, Silvia, Eulenberg, Karsten, ...

This article reports the production of an EP-element insertion library with more than 3,700 unique target sites within the Drosophila melanogaster genome and its use to systematically identify genes...

Conserved selenoprotein synthesis is not critical for oxidative stress defence and the lifespan of Drosophila

Hirosawa-Takamori, Mitsuko, Chung, Ho-Ryun, Jäckle, Herbert

Selenoprotein synthesis is conserved from bacteria to man. It involves the differential decoding of the UGA stop codon as selenocysteine. The proteomes of both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, with the...

Follicle separation during Drosophila oogenesis requires the activity of the Kinesin II-associated polypeptide Kap in germline cells

Pflanz, Ralf, Peter, Annette, Schäfer, Ulrich, Jäckle, Herbert

Cellular localization of organelles, protein complexes and single mRNAs depends on the directed transport along microtubule tracks, a process mediated by ATP-driven molecular motor proteins of the...

Genomic expansion and clustering of ZAD-containing C2H2 zinc-finger genes in Drosophila

Chung, Ho-Ryun, Schäfer, Ulrich, Jäckle, Herbert, Böhm, Siegfried

C2H2 zinc-finger proteins (ZFPs) constitute the largest family of nucleic acid binding factors in higher eukaryotes. In silico analysis identified a total of 326 putative ZFP genes in the Drosophila...

Control of triglyceride storage by a WD40/TPR-domain protein

Häder, Thomas, Müller, Sandra, Aguilera, Miguel, Eulenberg, Karsten G., Steuernagel, Arnd, Ciossek, Thomas, ...

Obesity is a metabolic disorder related to improper control of energy uptake and expenditure, which results in excessive accumulation of body fat. Initial insights into the genetic pathways that...

Mutations of the Drosophila Zinc Finger-encoding Gene vielfältig Impair Mitotic Cell Divisions and Cause Improper Chromosome SegregationV⃞

Staudt, Nicole, Fellert, Sonja, Chung, Ho-Ryun, Jäckle, Herbert, Vorbrüggen, Gerd

We describe the molecular characterization and function of vielfältig (vfl), a X-chromosomal gene that encodes a nuclear protein with six Krüppel-like C2H2 zinc finger motifs. vfl transcripts are...

Dual Lipolytic Control of Body Fat Storage and Mobilization in Drosophila

Grönke, Sebastian, Müller, Günter, Hirsch, Jochen, Fellert, Sonja, Andreou, Alexandra, Haase, Tobias, ...

Energy homeostasis is a fundamental property of animal life, providing a genetically fixed balance between fat storage and mobilization. The importance of body fat regulation is emphasized by...

Misexpression Screen in Drosophila melanogaster Aiming to Reveal Novel Factors Involved in Formation of Body Parts

Grieder, Nicole C., Charlafti, Ilias, Kloter, Urs, Jäckle, Herbert, Schäfer, Ulrich, Gehring, Walter J.

To identify novel factors that lead a fly imaginal disc to adopt its developmental fate, we carried out a modular dominant misexpression screen in imaginal discs. We have identified two factors that...

Mitogen-activated protein kinases interacting kinases are autoinhibited by a reprogrammed activation segment

Jauch, Ralf, Cho, Min-Kyu, Jäkel, Stefan, Netter, Catharina, Schreiter, Kay, Aicher, Babette, ...

Autoinhibition is a recurring mode of protein kinase regulation and can be based on diverse molecular mechanisms. Here, we show by crystal structure analysis, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based...