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Differentiation of the Silk Gland A Model System for the Study of Differential Gene Action

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Book cover Biochemical Differentiation in Insect Glands

Part of the book series: Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation ((RESULTS,volume 8))

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Differential gene transcription is one mechanism which controls development and differentiation in animal cells. One way to study this mechanism is to isolate genes of known function and reconstruct their normal controls (see Brown et al., 1970). Toward this goal Brown and his colleagues have undertaken a long-range study on the genes for ribosomal RNA (rDNA), 5S RNA, and transfer RNA from Xenopus laevis (Brown et al., 1970; Dawid et al., 1970; Reeder and Brown, 1970; Roeder et al., 1970; Wensink and Brown, 1971; Brown et al., 1971; Reeder and Roeder, 1972; Brown and Sugimoto, 1973; Reeder, 1973). Meanwhile, it might be possible to search for substances which control their transcription during development. We recognize, however, that even a complete elucidation of the factors regulating the rDNA, 5S DNA, and transfer RNA genes may not necessarily explain how tissue-specific genes are controlled in embryogenesis. The genes for these structural RNAs are not characteristic of any tissue; they are genes controlling “housekeeping” products found in all cells and should be regulated differently from genes which are expressed in a single cell-type such as globin, immunoglobulin and silk fibroin genes.

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