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We have identified two physically distinct promoters in mouse Pax6, P0 and P1, that direct differential Pax6 expression in the developing eye. P0-initiated transcripts predominate in lens placode and corneal and conjunctival epithelia, whereas P1-initiated transcripts are expressed in lens placode, optic vesicle and CNS, and only weakly in corneal and conjunctival epithelia. To further investigate their tissue-specific expression, a series of constructs for each promoter were examined in transgenic mice. We identified three different regulatory regions which direct distinct domains of Pax6 expression in the eye. A regulatory element upstream of the Pax6 P0 promoter is required for expression in a subpopulation of retinal progenitors and in the developing pancreas, while a second regulatory element upstream of the Pax6 P1 promoter is sufficient to direct expression in a subset of post-mitotic, non-terminally differentiated photoreceptors. A third element in Pax6 intron 4, when combined with either the P0 or P1 promoter, accurately directs expression in amacrine cells, ciliary body and iris. These results indicate that the complex expression pattern of Pax6 is differentially regulated by two promoters acting in combination with multiple cis-acting elements.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>We have also tested whether the regulatory mechanisms that direct Pax6 ocular expression are conserved between mice and flies. Remarkably, when inserted upstream of either the mouse Pax6 P1 or P0 promoter, an eye-enhancer region of the Drosophila eyeless gene, a Pax6 homolog, directs eye- and CNS-specific expression in transgenic mice that accurately reproduces features of endogenous Pax6 expression. These results suggest that in addition to conservation of Pax6 function, the upstream regulation of Pax6 has also been conserved during evolution.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1242\/dev.126.2.383","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,26]],"date-time":"2021-04-26T03:51:27Z","timestamp":1619409087000},"page":"383-395","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":159,"title":["Regulation of <i>Pax6<\/i> expression is conserved between mice and flies"],"prefix":"10.1242","volume":"126","author":[{"given":"Pin-Xian","family":"Xu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 02115, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xin","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 02115, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shaun","family":"Heaney","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 02115, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andrew","family":"Yoon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 02115, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alan M.","family":"Michelson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 02115, USA"},{"name":"2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 02115, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Richard L.","family":"Maas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 02115, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"237","published-online":{"date-parts":[[1999,1,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023030307294227200_","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"304","DOI":"10.1006\/dbio.1996.0220","article-title":"Correlations between terminal mitosis and differentiated fate of retinal precursor cells in vivo and in vitro: analysis with the \u2018window labeling\u2019 technique","volume":"178","author":"Belecky-Adams","year":"1996","journal-title":"Dev. 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