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Ulianov SV, Galitsyna AA, Flyamer IM, Golov AK, Khrameeva EE, Imakaev MV, Abdennur NA, Gelfand MS, Gavrilov AA, Razin SV. Activation of the alpha-globin gene expression correlates with dramatic upregulation of nearby non-globin genes and changes in local and large-scale chromatin spatial structure. Epigenetics Chromatin 2017; 10:35. [PMID: 28693562 PMCID: PMC5504709 DOI: 10.1186/s13072-017-0142-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2016] [Accepted: 07/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In homeotherms, the alpha-globin gene clusters are located within permanently open genome regions enriched in housekeeping genes. Terminal erythroid differentiation results in dramatic upregulation of alpha-globin genes making their expression comparable to the rRNA transcriptional output. Little is known about the influence of the erythroid-specific alpha-globin gene transcription outburst on adjacent, widely expressed genes and large-scale chromatin organization. Here, we have analyzed the total transcription output, the overall chromatin contact profile, and CTCF binding within the 2.7 Mb segment of chicken chromosome 14 harboring the alpha-globin gene cluster in cultured lymphoid cells and cultured erythroid cells before and after induction of terminal erythroid differentiation. RESULTS We found that, similarly to mammalian genome, the chicken genomes is organized in TADs and compartments. Full activation of the alpha-globin gene transcription in differentiated erythroid cells is correlated with upregulation of several adjacent housekeeping genes and the emergence of abundant intergenic transcription. An extended chromosome region encompassing the alpha-globin cluster becomes significantly decompacted in differentiated erythroid cells, and depleted in CTCF binding and CTCF-anchored chromatin loops, while the sub-TAD harboring alpha-globin gene cluster and the upstream major regulatory element (MRE) becomes highly enriched with chromatin interactions as compared to lymphoid and proliferating erythroid cells. The alpha-globin gene domain and the neighboring loci reside within the A-like chromatin compartment in both lymphoid and erythroid cells and become further segregated from the upstream gene desert upon terminal erythroid differentiation. CONCLUSIONS Our findings demonstrate that the effects of tissue-specific transcription activation are not restricted to the host genomic locus but affect the overall chromatin structure and transcriptional output of the encompassing topologically associating domain.
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- Sergey V Ulianov
- Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 119334.,Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 119992
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- Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 119334.,Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 119992.,Institute for Information Transmission Problems (the Kharkevich Institute) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 127051
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- Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 119334.,Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 119992.,MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 119334
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia 143026.,Institute for Information Transmission Problems (the Kharkevich Institute) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 127051
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Graduate Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA
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- Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 119992.,Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia 143026.,Institute for Information Transmission Problems (the Kharkevich Institute) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 127051.,Faculty of Computer Science, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia 125319
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- Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 119334
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- Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 119334.,Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 119992
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Philonenko ES, Klochkov DB, Borunova VV, Gavrilov AA, Razin SV, Iarovaia OV. TMEM8 - a non-globin gene entrapped in the globin web. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 37:7394-406. [PMID: 19820109 PMCID: PMC2794187 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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For more than 30 years it was believed that globin gene domains included only genes encoding globin chains. Here we show that in chickens, the domain of α-globin genes also harbor the non-globin gene TMEM8. It was relocated to the vicinity of the α-globin cluster due to inversion of an ∼170-kb genomic fragment. Although in humans TMEM8 is preferentially expressed in resting T-lymphocytes, in chickens it acquired an erythroid-specific expression profile and is upregulated upon terminal differentiation of erythroblasts. This correlates with the presence of erythroid-specific regulatory elements in the body of chicken TMEM8, which interact with regulatory elements of the α-globin genes. Surprisingly, TMEM8 is not simply recruited to the α-globin gene domain active chromatin hub. An alternative chromatin hub is assembled, which includes some of the regulatory elements essential for the activation of globin gene expression. These regulatory elements should thus shuttle between two different chromatin hubs.
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- Elena S Philonenko
- Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov street 34/5, 119334 Moscow, Russia
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Gavrilov AA, Razin SV. Study of spatial organization of chicken α-globin gene domain by 3c technique. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2008; 73:1192-9. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006297908110047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Gavrilov AA, Razin SV. Spatial configuration of the chicken alpha-globin gene domain: immature and active chromatin hubs. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 36:4629-40. [PMID: 18621783 PMCID: PMC2504291 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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The spatial configuration of the chicken α-globin gene domain in erythroid and lymphoid cells was studied by using the Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) approach. Real-time PCR with TaqMan probes was employed to estimate the frequencies of cross-linking of different restriction fragments within the domain. In differentiated cultured erythroblasts and in 10-day chick embryo erythrocytes expressing ‘adult’ αA and αD globin genes the following elements of the domain were found to form an ‘active’ chromatin hub: upstream Major Regulatory Element (MRE), −9 kb upstream DNase I hypersensitive site (DHS), −4 kb upstream CpG island, αD gene promoter and the downstream enhancer. The αA gene promoter was not present in the ‘active’ chromatin hub although the level of αA gene transcription exceeded that of the αD gene. Formation of the ‘active’ chromatin hub was preceded by the assembly of multiple incomplete hubs containing MRE in combination with either −9 kb DHS or other regulatory elements of the domain. These incomplete chromatin hubs were present in proliferating cultured erythroblasts which did not express globin genes. In lymphoid cells only the interaction between the αD promoter and the CpG island was detected.
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- Alexey A Gavrilov
- Laboratory of Structural and Functional Organization of Chromosomes, Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 34/5 Vavilov Street, 119334 Moscow, Russia
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Razin SV, Ioudinkova ES. Mechanisms controlling activation of the alpha-globin gene domain in chicken erythroid cells. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2007; 72:467-70. [PMID: 17573699 DOI: 10.1134/s000629790705001x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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In this review we consider the organization of the chicken alpha-globin gene domain and mechanisms regulating the activity of this tissue-specific gene domain located in a potentially active (characterized by an increased sensitivity to nucleases) chromatin configuration in cells of all lineages. Both regulatory mechanisms ensuring repression of alpha-globin genes in non-erythroid cells and mechanisms responsible for activation of transcription of these genes during erythroid cell differentiation are discussed. The analysis of the structure-function organization of the chicken alpha-globin gene domain presented in this review is based mainly on the authors' own results obtained over the last 20 years. On discussing the hypotheses explaining the mechanisms controlling the functional activity of chicken alpha-globin gene domain, data obtained in studies of alpha-globin gene domains of other vertebrates are also analyzed.
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- S V Razin
- Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119334, Russia.
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Klochkov D, Rincón-Arano H, Ioudinkova ES, Valadez-Graham V, Gavrilov A, Recillas-Targa F, Razin SV. A CTCF-dependent silencer located in the differentially methylated area may regulate expression of a housekeeping gene overlapping a tissue-specific gene domain. Mol Cell Biol 2006; 26:1589-97. [PMID: 16478981 PMCID: PMC1430243 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.26.5.1589-1597.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The tissue-specific chicken alpha-globin gene domain represents one of the paradigms, in terms of its constitutively open chromatin conformation and the location of several regulatory elements within the neighboring housekeeping gene. Here, we show that an 0.2-kb DNA fragment located approximately 4 kb upstream to the chicken alpha-globin gene cluster contains a binding site for the multifunctional protein factor CTCF and possesses silencer activity which depends on CTCF binding, as demonstrated by site-directed mutagenesis of the CTCF recognition sequence. CTCF was found to be associated with this recognition site in erythroid cells but not in lymphoid cells where the site is methylated. A functional promoter directing the transcription of the apparently housekeeping ggPRX gene was found 120 bp from the CTCF-dependent silencer. The data are discussed in terms of the hypothesis that the CTCF-dependent silencer stabilizes the level of ggPRX gene transcription in erythroid cells where the promoter of this gene may be influenced by positive cis-regulatory signals activating alpha-globin gene transcription.
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- Denis Klochkov
- Laboratory of Structural-Functional Organization of Chromosomes, Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 34/5 Vavilov Street, 117334 Moscow, Russia
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Razin SV, Rynditch A, Borunova V, Ioudinkova E, Smalko V, Scherrer K. The 33 kb transcript of the chicken ?-globin gene domain is part of the nuclear matrix. J Cell Biochem 2004; 92:445-57. [PMID: 15156557 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.20066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Giant nuclear transcripts, and in particular the RNAs of the globin gene domains which are much larger than their canonical pre-mRNAs, have been an enigma for many years. We show here that in avian erythroblastosis virus (AEV)-transformed chicken erythroleukaemic cells, where globin gene expression is abortive, the whole domain of alpha-globin genes is transcribed for about 33 kb in the globin direction and that this RNA is part of the nuclear matrix. Northern blot hybridisation with strand-specific riboprobes, recognising genes and intergenic sequences, and RT-PCR with downstream primers, show that the continuous full domain transcript (FDT) starts in the vicinity of a putative LCR and includes all the genes as well as known regulatory sites, the replication origin, and the DNA loop anchorage region in the upstream area. Absent in chicken fibroblasts, the globin FDT overlaps the major part of the ggPRX housekeeping gene that is transcribed in the opposite direction. RT-PCR and in situ hybridisation with genic and extra-genic globin probes demonstrated that the globin FDT is a component of the nuclear matrix. We suggest that the globin FDTs keep the domain in an active state, and the globin RNAs on the processing pathway are a component of the nuclear matrix. They may take part in the dynamic nuclear architecture when productively processed, or turn over slowly when globins are not synthesised.
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- Sergey V Razin
- Institut J Monod, 2, Place Jussieu, 75251 Paris, Cedex 05, France.
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Sjakste N, Iarovaia OV, Sjakste T, Razin SV, Ioudinkova ES. Chicken alpha-globin gene cluster is preceded by the nonerythroid-specific gene, the beginning of which is colocated with the replication origin. DOKL BIOCHEM BIOPHYS 2003; 388:29-31. [PMID: 12741128 DOI: 10.1023/a:1022504412274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- N Sjakste
- Institute of Biology, Latvian University, Miera 3, Salaspils LV2169, Latvia
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Ioudinkova ES, Razin SV. Study of the regulatory sequences associated with DNase I-hypersensitive sites in the 5′ region of the chicken α-globin gene domain. Mol Biol 2000. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02759610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Razin SV, Shen K, Ioudinkova E, Scherrer K. Functional analysis of DNA sequences located within a cluster of DNase U hypersensitive sites colocalizing with a MAR element at the upstream border of the chicken α‐globin gene domain. J Cell Biochem 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4644(19990701)74:1<38::aid-jcb5>3.0.co;2-#] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Sergey V. Razin
- Institut J. Monod/Université Paris 7; 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France
- Institute of Gene Biology, RAS, 117334 Moscow, Russia
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- Institut J. Monod/Université Paris 7; 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Institut J. Monod/Université Paris 7; 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France
- Institute of Gene Biology, RAS, 117334 Moscow, Russia
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- Institut J. Monod/Université Paris 7; 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Bode J, Schlake T, Ríos-Ramírez M, Mielke C, Stengert M, Kay V, Klehr-Wirth D. Scaffold/matrix-attached regions: structural properties creating transcriptionally active loci. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1996; 162A:389-454. [PMID: 8575884 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)61235-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The expression characteristics of the human interferon-beta gene, as part of a long stretch of genomic DNA, led to the discovery of the putative domain bordering elements. The chromatin structure of these elements and their surroundings was determined during the process of gene activation and correlated with their postulated functions. It is shown that these "scaffold-attached regions" (S/MAR elements) have some characteristics in common with and others distinct from enhancers with which they cooperate in various ways. Our model of S/MAR function will focus on their properties of mediating topological changes within the respective domain.
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- J Bode
- Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung m.b.H., Braunschweig, Germany
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Targa FR, Razin SV, de Moura Gallo CV, Scherrer K. Excision close to matrix attachment regions of the entire chicken alpha-globin gene domain by nuclease S1 and characterization of the framing structures. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:4422-6. [PMID: 8183924 PMCID: PMC43797 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.10.4422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Nuclease S1-hypersensitive sites in a 40-kb region of the chicken genome including the domain of the alpha-globin genes were mapped. Brief treatment of isolated chicken erythroid cell nuclei with nuclease S1 allowed separation of an approximately 20-kb genomic DNA fragment containing the whole alpha-globin gene cluster. No S1-hypersensitive sites were observed in the internal part of the domain. The upstream S1 site was found in a DNA fragment of 1.7 kb where the origin of replication and several protein binding sites were identified previously. Precise mapping of the positions of S1 cleavage in this fragment and "in vivo" footprinting of DNA-protein interactions in isolated nuclei showed a correspondence with some of these protein binding sites. The possible significance of all these observations is discussed in connection with the replication origin and the nuclear matrix attachment regions in the framing structures.
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- F R Targa
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Institut Jacques Monod, Université de Paris VII, France
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