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Canton M, Farinati S, Forestan C, Joseph J, Bonghi C, Varotto S. An efficient chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) protocol for studying histone modifications in peach reproductive tissues. PLANT METHODS 2022; 18:43. [PMID: 35361223 PMCID: PMC8973749 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-022-00876-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2022] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Perennial fruit trees display a growth behaviour characterized by annual cycling between growth and dormancy, with complex physiological features. Rosaceae fruit trees represent excellent models for studying not only the fruit growth/patterning but also the progression of the reproductive cycle depending upon the impact of climate conditions. Additionally, current developments in high-throughput technologies have impacted Rosaceae tree research while investigating genome structure and function as well as (epi)genetic mechanisms involved in important developmental and environmental response processes during fruit tree growth. Among epigenetic mechanisms, chromatin remodelling mediated by histone modifications and other chromatin-related processes play a crucial role in gene modulation, controlling gene expression. Chromatin immunoprecipitation is an effective technique to investigate chromatin dynamics in plants. This technique is generally applied for studies on chromatin states and enrichment of post-transcriptional modifications (PTMs) in histone proteins. RESULTS Peach is considered a model organism among climacteric fruits in the Rosaceae family for studies on bud formation, dormancy, and organ differentiation. In our work, we have primarily established specific protocols for chromatin extraction and immunoprecipitation in reproductive tissues of peach (Prunus persica). Subsequently, we focused our investigations on the role of two chromatin marks, namely the trimethylation of histone H3 at lysine in position 4 (H3K4me3) and trimethylation of histone H3 at lysine 27 (H3K27me3) in modulating specific gene expression. Bud dormancy and fruit growth were investigated in a nectarine genotype called Fantasia as our model system. CONCLUSIONS We present general strategies to optimize ChIP protocols for buds and mesocarp tissues of peach and analyze the correlation between gene expression and chromatin mark enrichment/depletion. The procedures proposed may be useful to evaluate any involvement of histone modifications in the regulation of gene expression during bud dormancy progression and core ripening in fruits.
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- Monica Canton
- Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padova, Legnaro, PD Italy
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- Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padova, Legnaro, PD Italy
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- Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padova, Legnaro, PD Italy
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- Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padova, Legnaro, PD Italy
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- Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padova, Legnaro, PD Italy
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Pal Negi A, Singh R, Sharma A, Negi VS. Insights into high mobility group A (HMGA) proteins from Poaceae family: An in silico approach for studying homologs. Comput Biol Chem 2020; 87:107306. [PMID: 32559639 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2020.107306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2019] [Revised: 06/04/2020] [Accepted: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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High mobility group (HMG) proteins are the major architectural proteins. Among HMG proteins, High Mobility Group A (HMGA) is characterized by AT-hook (ATH) motifs, which have an affinity for AT-rich DNA. In this study, we characterized the plant HMGAs from the Poaceae family using in silico methods. The protein sequences for rice HMGAs were retrieved and the corresponding orthologs from grasses were extracted. The phylogenetic analysis identified three major evolutionary clades of grass HMGAs and their ATH motif analysis revealed that HMGAs from clade 1 and 2, except for clade 2 HMGAs, are devoid of high-affinity DNA-binding domain. The clade 2 HMGAs also displayed a highly conserved length of all the spacers and the length of the C-terminal tail following the last ATH. Moreover, the C-terminal tail in clade 2 HMGAs is smaller than HMGAs from any other clade. Unlike clade 2, other clades of Poaceae HMGAs displayed high variability in the length of spacers. Despite several differences among HMGAs of different clades in Poaceae, the H1/H5 domain was found to be highly conserved. This study has revealed the detailed analyses of Poaceae HMGAs and it will be useful for further investigation aiming at the determination of precise biological functions and molecular mechanisms of grass HMGAs.
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- Archana Pal Negi
- School of Sciences, PP Savani University, Surat, Gujarat, 394125, India
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- School of Sciences, PP Savani University, Surat, Gujarat, 394125, India.
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Liu Y, Long YH, Wang SQ, Zhang YY, Li YF, Mi JS, Yu CH, Li DY, Zhang JH, Zhang XJ. JMJD6 regulates histone H2A.X phosphorylation and promotes autophagy in triple-negative breast cancer cells via a novel tyrosine kinase activity. Oncogene 2018; 38:980-997. [PMID: 30185813 DOI: 10.1038/s41388-018-0466-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2018] [Revised: 07/04/2018] [Accepted: 07/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Overexpression of Jumonji domain-containing 6 (JMJD6) has been reported to be associated with more aggressive breast cancer characteristics. However, the precise role of JMJD6 in breast cancer development remains unclear. Here, we demonstrate that JMJD6 has intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity and can utilize ATP and GTP as phosphate donors to phosphorylate Y39 of histone H2A.X (H2A.XY39ph). High JMJD6 levels promoted autophagy in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells by regulating the expression of autophagy-related genes. The JMJD6-H2A.XY39ph axis promoted TNBC cell growth via the autophagy pathway. We show that combined inhibition of JMJD6 kinase activity and autophagy efficiently decreases TNBC growth. Together, these findings suggest an effective strategy for TNBC treatment.
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- Yan Liu
- College of Life Science, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China.,Cancer Institute, Tangshan People's Hospital, Tangshan, China
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- College of Life Science, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China
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- Hospital of North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China.
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- College of Life Science, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China.,Cancer Institute, Tangshan People's Hospital, Tangshan, China
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- Cancer Institute, Tangshan People's Hospital, Tangshan, China
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- People's Hospital of Zunhua, Zunhua, China
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- Cancer Institute, Tangshan People's Hospital, Tangshan, China.
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Using native chromatin immunoprecipitation to interrogate histone variant protein deposition in embryonic stem cells. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1176:11-22. [PMID: 25030915 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0992-6_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Chromatin immunoprecipitation combined with massive parallel sequencing (ChIP-Seq) is a powerful epigenetics technique for interrogating the genome-wide localization of histone modifications, histone variants, and other chromatin-associating factors. In brief, chromatin pellets are fractionated from the nuclei, and then fragmented by enzymatic digestion or sonication. Chromatin regions associated with proteins of interest are enriched by immunoprecipitation with specific antibodies. After the immunoprecipitation, DNA fragments are extracted, amplified during sequencing library construction, and sequenced by high-throughput sequencing. Here, we describe the native chromatin immunoprecipitation of a rare histone variant, H2A.X, followed by high-throughput sequencing, in mouse embryonic stem cells.
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Chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled to DNA microarray has become a widely used method to study transcription factors and chromatin structure. Here, we provide a detailed protocol for the localization of the variant histone Htz1 in the S. cerevisiae genome. This protocol can easily be adapted to fit other purposes such as profiling histone modifications.
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Xiao A, Li H, Shechter D, Ahn SH, Fabrizio LA, Erdjument-Bromage H, Ishibe-Murakami S, Wang B, Tempst P, Hofmann K, Patel DJ, Elledge SJ, Allis CD. WSTF regulates the H2A.X DNA damage response via a novel tyrosine kinase activity. Nature 2008; 457:57-62. [PMID: 19092802 PMCID: PMC2854499 DOI: 10.1038/nature07668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 306] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2008] [Accepted: 11/27/2008] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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DNA double-stranded breaks present a serious challenge for eukaryotic cells. The inability to repair breaks leads to genomic instability, carcinogenesis and cell death. During the double-strand break response, mammalian chromatin undergoes reorganization demarcated by H2A.X Ser 139 phosphorylation (gamma-H2A.X). However, the regulation of gamma-H2A.X phosphorylation and its precise role in chromatin remodelling during the repair process remain unclear. Here we report a new regulatory mechanism mediated by WSTF (Williams-Beuren syndrome transcription factor, also known as BAZ1B)-a component of the WICH complex (WSTF-ISWI ATP-dependent chromatin-remodelling complex). We show that WSTF has intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity by means of a domain that shares no sequence homology to any known kinase fold. We show that WSTF phosphorylates Tyr 142 of H2A.X, and that WSTF activity has an important role in regulating several events that are critical for the DNA damage response. Our work demonstrates a new mechanism that regulates the DNA damage response and expands our knowledge of domains that contain intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity.
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- Andrew Xiao
- Laboratory of Chromatin Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065, USA
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Haring M, Offermann S, Danker T, Horst I, Peterhansel C, Stam M. Chromatin immunoprecipitation: optimization, quantitative analysis and data normalization. PLANT METHODS 2007; 3:11. [PMID: 17892552 PMCID: PMC2077865 DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-3-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 384] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2007] [Accepted: 09/24/2007] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Chromatin remodeling, histone modifications and other chromatin-related processes play a crucial role in gene regulation. A very useful technique to study these processes is chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP). ChIP is widely used for a few model systems, including Arabidopsis, but establishment of the technique for other organisms is still remarkably challenging. Furthermore, quantitative analysis of the precipitated material and normalization of the data is often underestimated, negatively affecting data quality. RESULTS We developed a robust ChIP protocol, using maize (Zea mays) as a model system, and present a general strategy to systematically optimize this protocol for any type of tissue. We propose endogenous controls for active and for repressed chromatin, and discuss various other controls that are essential for successful ChIP experiments. We experienced that the use of quantitative PCR (QPCR) is crucial for obtaining high quality ChIP data and we explain why. The method of data normalization has a major impact on the quality of ChIP analyses. Therefore, we analyzed different normalization strategies, resulting in a thorough discussion of the advantages and drawbacks of the various approaches. CONCLUSION Here we provide a robust ChIP protocol and strategy to optimize the protocol for any type of tissue; we argue that quantitative real-time PCR (QPCR) is the best method to analyze the precipitates, and present comprehensive insights into data normalization.
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- Max Haring
- Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Kruislaan 318, 1098 SM Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Biology I, Aachen University, Worringer Weg 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- Institute for Biology I, Aachen University, Worringer Weg 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- Institute for Biology I, Aachen University, Worringer Weg 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Kruislaan 318, 1098 SM Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Belikov S, Astrand C, Wrange O. Mechanism of histone H1-stimulated glucocorticoid receptor DNA binding in vivo. Mol Cell Biol 2007; 27:2398-410. [PMID: 17210632 PMCID: PMC1820493 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01509-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Xenopus oocytes lack somatic linker histone H1 but contain an oocyte-specific variant, B4. The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) inducible mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) promoter was reconstituted in Xenopus oocytes to address the effects of histone H1. The expression of Xenopus H1o [corrected] (H1) via cytoplasmic mRNA injection resulted in H1 incorporation into in vivo assembled chromatin based on (i) the appearance of a chromatosome stop, (ii) the increased nucleosome repeat length (NRL), and (iii) H1-DNA binding assayed by chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP). The H1 effect on the NRL was saturable and hence represents H1-binding to a specific site. A subsaturating level of H1 enhanced the hormone-dependent binding of GR to the glucocorticoid response elements (GREs) and the hormone-dependent MMTV transcription while it reduced the access to DNA as revealed by micrococcal nuclease (MNase) analysis. These H1 effects were lost at higher levels of H1. ChIP and MNase analysis revealed a hormone-dependent dissociation of H1 from the activated chromatin domain. The proposed mechanism of H1-induced GR binding is based on two effects: (i) a GR-induced asymmetric distribution of H1 in favor of inactive chromatin and (ii) an H1-induced reduction in DNA access. These effects results in increased concentration of free GR and, hence, in increased GR-GRE binding.
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- Sergey Belikov
- Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17177 Stockholm, Sweden
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Kaufman CK, Sinha S, Bolotin D, Fan J, Fuchs E. Dissection of a complex enhancer element: maintenance of keratinocyte specificity but loss of differentiation specificity. Mol Cell Biol 2002; 22:4293-308. [PMID: 12024040 PMCID: PMC133856 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.22.12.4293-4308.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In this report, we explored the mechanisms underlying keratinocyte-specific and differentiation-specific gene expression in the skin. We have identified five keratinocyte-specific, open chromatin regions that exist within the 6 kb of 5' upstream regulatory sequence known to faithfully recapitulate the strong endogenous keratin 5 (K5) promoter and/or enhancer activity. One of these, DNase I-hypersensitive site (HSs) 4, was unique in that it acted independently to drive abundant and keratinocyte-specific reporter gene activity in culture and in transgenic mice, despite the fact that it was not essential for K5 enhancer activity. We have identified evolutionarily conserved regulatory elements and a number of their associated proteins that bind to this compact and complex enhancer element. The 125-bp 3' half of this element (referred to as 4.2) is by far the smallest known strong enhancer element possessing keratinocyte-specific activity in vivo. Interestingly, its activity is restricted to a subset of progeny of K5-expressing cells located within the sebaceous gland. The other half of HSs 4 (termed 4.1) possesses activity to suppress sebocyte-specific expression and induce expression in the channel (inner root sheath) cells surrounding the hair shaft. Our findings lead us to a view of keratinocyte gene expression which is determined by multiple regulatory modules, many of which contain AP-2 and/or Sp1/Sp3 binding sites for enhancing expression in skin epithelium, but which also harbor one or more unique sites for the binding of factors which determine specificity. Through mixing and matching of these modules, additional levels of specificity are obtained, indicating that both transcriptional repressors and activators govern the specificity.
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- Charles K Kaufman
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Núñez ME, Noyes KT, Barton JK. Oxidative charge transport through DNA in nucleosome core particles. CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY 2002; 9:403-15. [PMID: 11983330 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-5521(02)00121-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Eukaryotic DNA is packaged into nucleosomes, made up of 146 bp of DNA wrapped around a core of histone proteins. We used photoexcited rhodium intercalators to explore DNA charge transport within these assemblies. Although histone proteins inhibit intercalation of the rhodium complex within the core particle, they do not prevent 5'-GG-3' oxidation, the signature of oxidative charge transport through DNA. Moreover, using rhodium intercalators tethered to the 5' terminus of the DNA, we found that guanine bases within the nucleosome can be oxidized from a distance of 24 bp. Histone binding did not affect the pattern and extent of this oxidation. Therefore, although the structure of the nucleosome core particle generally protects DNA from damage by solution-borne molecules, packaging within the nucleosome does not protect DNA from charge transfer damage through the base pair stack.
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- Megan E Núñez
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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Li TH, Kim C, Rubin CM, Schmid CW. K562 cells implicate increased chromatin accessibility in Alu transcriptional activation. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:3031-9. [PMID: 10931917 PMCID: PMC108432 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.16.3031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Alu repeats in K562 cells are unusually hypomethylated and far more actively transcribed than those in other human cell lines and somatic tissues. Also, the level of Alu RNA in K562 cells is relatively insensitive to cell stresses, namely heat shock, adenovirus infection and treatment with cycloheximide, which increase the abundance of Alu RNA in HeLa and 293 cells. Recent advances in understanding the interactions between DNA methylation, transcriptional activation and chromatin conformation reveal reasons for the constitutively high level of Alu expression in K562 cells. Methylation represses transcription of transiently transfected Alu templates in all cell lines tested but cell stresses do not relieve this repression suggesting that they activate Alu transcription through another pathway. A relatively large fraction of the Alus within K562 chromatin is accessible to restriction enzyme cleavage and cell stresses increase the chromatin accessibility of Alus in HeLa and 293 cells. Cell stress evidently activates Alu transcription by rapidly remodeling chromatin to recruit additional templates.
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- T H Li
- Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Sinha S, Degenstein L, Copenhaver C, Fuchs E. Defining the regulatory factors required for epidermal gene expression. Mol Cell Biol 2000; 20:2543-55. [PMID: 10713177 PMCID: PMC85466 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.20.7.2543-2555.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Keratins K5 and K14 are the hallmarks of mitotically active keratinocytes of stratified epithelia. They are transcribed at a high level and in a tissue-specific manner, enabling us to use the K14 gene to elucidate the regulatory mechanism underlying epidermis-specific transcription. We have identified four DNase I-hypersensitive sites (HSs) present in the 5' regulatory sequences of the K14 gene under specific conditions where the gene is actively expressed. Two of these sites (HSsII and -III) are conserved in position and sequence within the human and mouse K14 genes. Using an in vivo transgenic approach and an in vitro keratinocyte culture approach, we have discovered that most of K14's transcriptional activity is restricted to a novel 700-bp regulatory domain encompassing these HSs. This enhancer is sufficient to confer epidermis-specific activity to a heterologous promoter in transfection assays in culture and in transgenic mice in vivo. A 125-bp DNA fragment encompassing HSsII harbors the majority of the transactivation activity in vitro, and electrophoretic mobility shift and mutational assays reveal a role for AP-1, ets, and AP-2 family members in orchestrating the keratinocyte-preferred expression of HSsII. The HSsII element also confers epidermal expressivity to a heterologous promoter in transgenic mice, although it is not sufficient on its own to fully restrict activity to keratinocytes. Within the HSsII element, the ets and AP-2 sites appear to be most critical in collaborating to regulate epidermal specificity in vivo.
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- S Sinha
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Luo D, Guérin E, Ludwig MG, Stoll I, Basset P, Anglard P. Transcriptional induction of stromelysin-3 in mesodermal cells is mediated by an upstream CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein element associated with a DNase I-hypersensitive site. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:37177-85. [PMID: 10601280 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.52.37177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Stromelysin-3 (ST3) is a matrix metalloproteinase whose synthesis is markedly increased in stromal fibroblasts of most invasive human carcinomas. In the present study, we have investigated the molecular mechanisms by which high levels of ST3 expression can be induced. In contrast to the early and transient induction of interstitial collagenase by 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), the fibroblastic induction of ST3 was found to be delayed and to require protein neosynthesis. We demonstrated that this induction is transcriptional and does not result from changes in RNA stability. By looking next to promoter regions accessible to DNase I upon gene induction, we have identified two distal elements and have characterized their role in the transcriptional regulation of ST3. The first one is a TPA-responsive element that controls the base-line ST3 promoter activity but is not required for its activation. We demonstrate that ST3 gene induction is actually mediated by the second element, a C/EBP-binding site, by showing: (i) that this element becomes accessible in cells induced to express ST3, (ii) that endogenous C/EBPbeta binds to the ST3 promoter, and (iii) that this binding leads to ST3 transcriptional activation. Our study provides new insights into the regulation of ST3 and suggests an additional role for C/EBP transcription factors in tissue remodeling processes associated with this MMP.
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- D Luo
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, INSERM, Université Louis Pasteur, Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg, 67404 Illkirch cedex, France
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Brand M, Yamamoto K, Staub A, Tora L. Identification of TATA-binding protein-free TAFII-containing complex subunits suggests a role in nucleosome acetylation and signal transduction. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:18285-9. [PMID: 10373431 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.26.18285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Recently we identified a novel human (h) multiprotein complex, called TATA-binding protein (TBP)-free TAFII-containing complex (TFTC), which is able to nucleate RNA polymerase II transcription and can mediate transcriptional activation. Here we demonstrate that TFTC, similar to other TBP-free TAFII complexes (yeast SAGA, hSTAGA, and hPCAF) contains the acetyltransferase hGCN5 and is able to acetylate histones in both a free and a nucleosomal context. The recently described TRRAP cofactor for oncogenic transcription factor pathways was also characterized as a TFTC subunit. Furthermore, we identified four other previously uncharacterized subunits of TFTC: hADA3, hTAFII150, hSPT3, and hPAF65beta. Thus, the polypeptide composition of TFTC suggests that TFTC is recruited to chromatin templates by activators to acetylate histones and thus may potentiate initiation and activation of transcription.
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- M Brand
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/Université Louis Pasteur BP 163-67404 Illkirch Cedex, CU de Strasbourg, France
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Usachenko SI, Bradbury EM. Localization of specific histone regions on nucleosomal DNA by cross-linking. Methods Enzymol 1999; 304:264-78. [PMID: 10372365 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(99)04016-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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- S I Usachenko
- Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis 95616, USA
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Kusaba H, Nakayama M, Harada T, Nomoto M, Kohno K, Kuwano M, Wada M. Association of 5' CpG demethylation and altered chromatin structure in the promoter region with transcriptional activation of the multidrug resistance 1 gene in human cancer cells. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1999; 262:924-32. [PMID: 10411657 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00469.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Selection of human cells for resistance to vincristine or doxorubicin often induces overexpression of the multidrug resistance 1 gene (MDR1), which encodes the cell surface P-glycoprotein, as a result of gene amplification or transcriptional activation. However, the precise mechanism underlying such transcriptional activation of MDR1 remains unclear. The relation between methylation status of CpG sites in the MDR1 promoter region and transcriptional activation of MDR1 has now been investigated. The P-glycoprotein-overexpressing, multidrug-resistant KB/VJ300 and KB-C1 cells, which were established from human cancer KB3-1 cells, were examined; MDR1 is transcriptionally activated but not amplified in KB/VJ300 cells, whereas it is amplified in KB-C1 cells. Determination of the methylation status revealed that the MDR1 promoter region was hypomethylated in KB/VJ300 and KB-C1 cells, but hypermethylated in KB3-1 cells. Prior treatment of KB3-1 cells with the DNA methyltransferase inhibitor 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine resulted in a 90-fold increase in the frequency of vincristine-resistance. Of three lines, KB/CdR-1, KB/CdR-2, and KB/CdR-3, established from KB3-1 cells after exposure to 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine, MspI/HpaII sites in the MDR1 promoter region were hypomethylated in KB/CdR-1 and KB/CdR-2 cells, but not in KB/CdR-3 cells. MDR1 mRNA expression was detected in KB/CdR-1 and KB/CdR-2 cells, but not in KB/CdR-3 cells. The binding of YB-1 and Sp1, transcription factors implicated in MDR1 expression, in the MDR1 promoter was not affected by the methylation status of a neighboring CpG sites. The MDR1 promoter region in KB/VJ300 cells showed an increased sensitivity to DNase I compared with that in KB3-1 cells, suggesting an altered chromatin structure. The methylation status of the promoter region may plays an important role in MDR1 overexpression and in acquisition of the P-glycoprotein-mediated multidrug resistance phenotype.
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MESH Headings
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1/biosynthesis
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1/genetics
- Azacitidine/analogs & derivatives
- Azacitidine/pharmacology
- Chromatin/genetics
- Chromatin/metabolism
- Clone Cells/drug effects
- DNA Methylation/drug effects
- Decitabine
- Dinucleoside Phosphates/genetics
- Dinucleoside Phosphates/metabolism
- Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
- Gene Amplification
- Genes, MDR/genetics
- Humans
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/physiology
- Transcriptional Activation/drug effects
- Transcriptional Activation/physiology
- Tumor Cells, Cultured/chemistry
- Tumor Cells, Cultured/drug effects
- Tumor Cells, Cultured/metabolism
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- H Kusaba
- Department of Biochemistry, Kyushu University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan
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Remboutsika E, Lutz Y, Gansmuller A, Vonesch JL, Losson R, Chambon P. The putative nuclear receptor mediator TIF1alpha is tightly associated with euchromatin. J Cell Sci 1999; 112 ( Pt 11):1671-83. [PMID: 10318760 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.112.11.1671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Ligand-dependent transcriptional regulation by nuclear receptors is believed to be mediated by intermediary factors (TIFs) acting on remodelling of the chromatin structure and/or the activity of the transcriptional machinery. The putative transcriptional mediator TIF1alpha is a nuclear protein kinase that has been identified via its interaction with liganded nuclear receptors, including retinoic acid (RAR), retinoid X (RXR) and estrogen (ER) receptors. Here, we demonstrate that TIF1alpha is a non-histone chromosomal protein tightly associated with highly accessible euchromatic regions of the genome. Immunofluorescence confocal microscopy reveals that TIF1alpha exhibits a finely granular distribution in euchromatin of interphase nuclei, while it is mostly excluded from condensed chromatin and metaphase chromosomes. Immunoelectron microscopy shows that, in contrast to the heterochromatin protein HP1alpha, most of TIF1alpha is associated with euchromatin, where it is preferentially localised on regions known to be sites for RNA polymerase II (perichromatin fibrils and borders between euchromatin and heterochromatin). Early mouse embryos as well as embryonal carcinoma (EC) and embryonic stem (ES) cells express high levels of TIF1alpha. These levels dramatically decrease during organogenesis and upon differentiation of P19 EC cells, indicating that TIF1alpha is preferentially expressed in undifferentiated pluripotent cells in the course of development. Therefore, TIF1alpha could belong to a novel class of chromatin-associated TIFs that facilitate the access of transregulators (e.g. liganded nuclear receptors) to their cognate sites in target genes, thereby participitating in the epigenetic control of transcription during embryonic development and cell differentiation.
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- E Remboutsika
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), CNRS/INSERM/ULP/, Collège de France, BP 163, France
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Dilworth FJ, Fromental-Ramain C, Remboutsika E, Benecke A, Chambon P. Ligand-dependent activation of transcription in vitro by retinoic acid receptor alpha/retinoid X receptor alpha heterodimers that mimics transactivation by retinoids in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:1995-2000. [PMID: 10051583 PMCID: PMC26725 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.5.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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All-trans and 9-cis retinoic acids (RA) signals are transduced by retinoic acid receptor/retinoid X receptor (RAR/RXR) heterodimers that act as functional units controlling the transcription of RA-responsive genes. With the aim of elucidating the underlying molecular mechanisms, we have developed an in vitro transcription system using a chromatin template made up of a minimal promoter and a direct repeat with 5-spacing-based RA response element. RARalpha and RXRalpha were expressed in and purified from baculovirus-infected Sf9 cells, and transcription was carried out by using naked DNA or chromatin templates. Transcription from naked templates was not affected by the presence of RA and/or RAR/RXR heterodimers. In contrast, very little transcription occurred from chromatin templates in the absence of RA or RAR/RXR heterodimers whereas their addition resulted in a dosage-dependent stimulation of transcription that never exceeded that occurring on naked DNA templates. Most importantly, the addition of synthetic agonistic or antagonistic retinoids to the chromatin transcription system mimicked their stimulatory or inhibitory action in vivo, and activation by a RXR-specific retinoid was subordinated to the binding of an agonist ligand to the RAR partner. Moreover, the addition of the p300 coactivator generated a synergistic enhancement of transcription. Thus, the dissection of this transcription system ultimately should lead to the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms by which RAR/RXR heterodimers control transcription in a ligand-dependent manner.
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- F J Dilworth
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Collège de France, BP163, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, France
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Fabbro C, Braghetta P, Girotto D, Piccolo S, Volpin D, Bressan GM. Cell type-specific transcription of the alpha1(VI) collagen gene. Role of the AP1 binding site and of the core promoter. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:1759-66. [PMID: 9880558 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.3.1759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Analysis of the chromatin of different cell types has identified four DNase I-hypersensitive sites in the 5'-flanking region of the alpha1(VI) collagen gene, mapping at -4.6, -4.4, -2.5, and -0.1 kilobase (kb) from the RNA start site. The site at -2.5 kb was independent from, whereas the other three sites could be related to, alpha1(VI) mRNA expression. The site at -0.1 kb was present in cells expressing (NIH3T3 and C2C12) but absent in cells not expressing (EL4) the mRNA; the remaining two sites were apparently related with high levels of mRNA. DNase I footprinting and gel-shift assays with NIH3T3 and C2C12 nuclear extracts have located a binding site for transcription factor AP1 (activator protein 1) between nucleotides -104 and -73. When nuclear extracts from EL4 lymphocytes were used, the AP1 site-containing sequence was bound by proteins not related to AP1. The existence of the hypersensitive site at -0.1 kb may be related to the binding of AP1 and of additional factors to the core promoter (Piccolo, S., Bonaldo, P., Vitale, P., Volpin, D., and Bressan, G. M. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 19583-19590). The function of the AP1 binding site and of the core promoter in the transcriptional regulation of the Col6a1 gene was investigated by expressing several promoter-reporter gene constructs in transgenic mice and in cell cultures. The results indicate that regulation of transcription of the Col6a1 gene by different cis-acting elements (core promoter, AP1 binding site and enhancers) is not completely modular, but the final output depends on the specific interactions among the three elements in a defined cell type.
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- C Fabbro
- Institute of Histology and Embryology, University of Padova, 35100 Padova, Italy
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During the pachytene stage of meiotic prophase in male mammals, the X and Y chromosomes become transcriptionally inactive and establish a chromatin domain, the sex body, that is visually distinct from the transcriptionally active autosomes. We used objective criteria to assess these chromatin differences by DNase I sensitivity (DS) of sex chromosome and autosomal sequences at both the cytological and molecular levels. For cytological studies, in situ nick translation techniques were used on air-dried preparations of testicular cells. For molecular studies, nuclei from pachytene spermatocytes were subjected to nuclease sensitivity assays. Both sex-linked and autosomal sequences were assessed, including some gene sequences that are expressed and some that are not expressed in pachytene spermatocytes. There was a wide range of DS in different genomic sequences; however, the sex-linked sequences generally were less nuclease sensitive than were autosomal sequences. Interestingly, a hot spot of recombination (within the Eb gene) showed a high level of nuclease sensitivity, while a cold spot of recombination (centromeric satellite region) exhibited lower sensitivity, more similar to that of sex-linked sequences. We also examined the nuclease sensitivity of a tyrosinase transgene insert, TyBS. In one line of mice, the transgene insert is X-linked, whereas in another, it is autosomal. The transgene was less nuclease sensitive when X-linked than as an autosomal insert. These results support the hypothesis that in pachytene spermatocytes the XY chromosome pair is more condensed and inaccessible to enzymatic digest, whereas the autosomal chromatin is in a more open configuration. In addition, we examined the nuclease sensitivity of some of the same genes in the earlier leptotene/zygotene prophase stage, when the sex chromatin is not maximally condensed. We found that while autosomal gene nuclease sensitivity was equivalent to that at the pachytene stage, X-linked sequences were more nuclease sensitive. Overall, these differences in chromatin nuclease sensitivity correlate with differences in meiotic recombination activity and may be mechanistically related.
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- T Wiltshire
- Dept. of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37996-0840, USA
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Li Y, Strahler JR, Dodgson JB. Neither HMG-14a nor HMG-17 gene function is required for growth of chicken DT40 cells or maintenance of DNaseI-hypersensitive sites. Nucleic Acids Res 1997; 25:283-8. [PMID: 9016555 PMCID: PMC146424 DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.2.283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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HMG-14 and HMG-17 form a family of ubiquitous non-histone chromosomal proteins and have been reported to bind preferentially to regions of active chromatin structure. Our previous studies demonstrated that the chicken HMG-17 gene is dispensable for normal growth of the DT40 chicken lymphoid cell line. Here it is shown that the major chicken HMG-14 gene,HMG-14a, is also dispensable and, moreover, that DT40-derived cells lacking both HMG-17 and HMG-14a proteins show no obvious change in phenotype with respect to the parental DT40 cells. Furthermore, no compensatory changes in HMG-14b or histone protein levels were observed in cells lacking both HMG-14a and HMG-17, nor were any alterations detected in such hallmarks of chromatin structure as DNaseI-hypersensitive sites or micrococcal nuclease digestion patterns. It is concluded that the HMG-14a and HMG-17 proteins are not required for normal growth of avian cell linesin vitro, nor for the maintenance of DNaseI-hypersensitive sites in chromatin.
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- Y Li
- Department of Microbiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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Hamid QA, Thanumalayan S, Parnaik VK. An improved method to distinguish micrococcal nuclease sensitivity of chromatin. JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL METHODS 1996; 33:59-64. [PMID: 8905469 DOI: 10.1016/0165-022x(96)00014-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The resolution of the standard micrococcal nuclease assay for sensitivity of active chromatin has been enhanced by the inclusion of an additional step of digesting nuclease-digested DNA with a suitable restriction enzyme prior to Southern hybridization. The improved assay has been used to analyze the chromatin structure of the lamin A, albumin and alpha-fetoprotein genes during rat liver development.
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- Q A Hamid
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
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Bou-Gharios G, Garrett LA, Rossert J, Niederreither K, Eberspaecher H, Smith C, Black C, Crombrugghe B. A potent far-upstream enhancer in the mouse pro alpha 2(I) collagen gene regulates expression of reporter genes in transgenic mice. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1996; 134:1333-44. [PMID: 8794872 PMCID: PMC2120987 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.134.5.1333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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We have identified three DNase I-hypersensitive sites in chromatin between 15 and 17 kb upstream of the mouse pro alpha 2 (I) collagen gene. These sites were detected in cells that produce type I collagen but not in cells that do not express these genes. A construction containing the sequences from -17 kb to +54 bp of the mouse pro alpha 2 (I) collagen gene, cloned upstream of either the Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase or the firefly luciferase reporter gene, showed strong enhancer activity in transgenic mice when compared with the levels seen previously in animals harboring shorter promoter fragments. Especially high levels of expression of the reporter gene were seen in dermis, fascia, and the fibrous layers of many internal organs. High levels of expression could also be detected in some osteoblastic cells. When various fragments of the 5' flanking sequences were cloned upstream of the 350-bp proximal pro alpha 2(I) collagen promoter linked to the lacZ gene, the cis-acting elements responsible for enhancement were localized in the region between -13.5 and -19.5 kb, the same region that contains the three DNase I-hypersensitive sites. Moreover, the DNA segment from -13.5 to -19.5 kb was also able to drive the cell-specific expression of a 220-bp mouse pro alpha 1(I) collagen promoter, which is silent in transgenic mice. Hence, our data suggest that a far-upstream enhancer element plays a role in regulating high levels of expression of the mouse pro alpha 2(I) collagen gene.
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- G Bou-Gharios
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030, USA
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Hamid QA, Fatima S, Thanumalayan S, Parnaik VK. Activation of the lamin A gene during rat liver development. FEBS Lett 1996; 392:137-42. [PMID: 8772191 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00802-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We have studied the regulation of expression of the A-type lamins, which are constituents of the nuclear lamina. During rat liver development, high levels of lamin A and C mRNAs were observed in 15-day fetal liver but were barely detectable in the adult. The chromatin conformation of the lamin A gene was sensitive to DNase I in 15-day fetal liver but became mostly insensitive in the adult. Lamin A and C proteins could be detected in fetal liver and persisted in the adult. Our evidence suggests that the lamin A gene is actively transcribed early in liver differentiation and its activity declines considerably in adult liver.
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- Q A Hamid
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
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Giancotti V, Bandiera A, Sindici C, Perissin L, Crane-Robinson C. Calcium-dependent ADP-ribosylation of high-mobility-group I (HMGI) proteins. Biochem J 1996; 317 ( Pt 3):865-70. [PMID: 8760375 PMCID: PMC1217565 DOI: 10.1042/bj3170865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Micrococcal nuclease digestion of nuclei from mouse Lewis lung carcinoma cells releases a protein mixture into the supernatant that lacks histone H1 and contains a full complement of high-mobility-group I (HMGI) proteins (i.e. I, Y and I-C). This implies that all three HMGI proteins are localized at the nuclease-sensitive regions of active chromatin. It is also shown that if Ca2+ ions are present in the nuclear incubation buffer (with or without exogenous nuclease), all three HMGI proteins become ADP-ribosylated. We propose that this modification of HMGI family proteins is part of the general poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation that accompanies DNA damage in apoptosis and other processes.
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- V Giancotti
- Dipartimento di Biochimica, Biofisica e Chimica delle Macromolecole, Università di Trieste, Italy
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Xiao L, Casero RA. Differential transcription of the human spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase (SSAT) gene in human lung carcinoma cells. Biochem J 1996; 313 ( Pt 2):691-6. [PMID: 8573111 PMCID: PMC1216962 DOI: 10.1042/bj3130691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The expression of spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase (SSAT), the rate-limiting enzyme in the catabolism of polyamines, is highly regulated by a number of factors including the natural polyamines and their analogues. The phenotype-specific cytotoxicity that occurs in response to a class of polyamine analogues, the diethylpolyamines, is associated with a phenotype-specific superinduction of SSAT in human non-small-cell lung carcinomas, whereas in non-responding cell types, including the small-cell lung carcinomas, the superinduction of SSAT does not occur. In this study, we have investigated the molecular basis of this phenotype-specific SSAT induction in human lung carcinoma cells in response to N1,N12-diethylspermine (BESpm). To facilitate the study of transcriptional regulation, we have cloned and characterized 11 kb of the human SSAT locus, including 3500 bp of the 5' promoter region. Nuclear run-on transcription studies suggest that the initial induction of SSAT results from an increase in the rate of gene transcription. Results from Northern blot analysis and ribonuclease protection assays indicate a differential expression of SSAT mRNA between the analogue-responsive H157 and non-responsive H82 cells. There is no detectable SSAT mRNA in H82 cells, even after a 24-h analogue treatment, whereas SSAT mRNA in H157 cells was detectable by Northern blot analysis and increased more than 100-fold following drug exposure. Furthermore, nuclear run-on transcription assays do not detect any active transcription of SSAT gene in either treated or untreated H82 cells. These results indicate that at least one component of the phenotype-specific induction of SSAT appears to be due to differences in transcriptional regulation of the gene. In addition, mapping of DNase I-hypersensitive sites of the SSAT gene suggest that the cell type-specific promoter/enhancer utilization may control the expression of the SSAT gene in differentially sensitive cell types in vivo.
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- L Xiao
- Johns Hopkins Oncology Center Research Laboratories, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
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- F Thoma
- Institut für Zellbiologie, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland
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HMG-17 is a highly conserved and ubiquitous nonhistone chromosomal protein that binds to nucleosome core particles. HMG-17 and HMG-14 form a family of chromosomal proteins that have been reported to bind preferentially to regions of active chromatin structure. To study the functional role of the single-copy chicken HMG-17 gene, null mutants were generated by targeted gene disruption in a chicken lymphoid cell line, DT40. Heterozygous and homozygous null mutant cell lines were generated by two independent selection strategies. Heterozygous null mutant lines produced about half the normal level of HMG-17 protein, and homozygous null lines produced no detectable HMG-17. No significant changes in cell phenotype were observed in cells harboring either singly or doubly disrupted HMG-17 genes, and no compensatory changes in HMG-14 or histone protein levels were observed. It is concluded that HMG-17 protein is not required for normal growth of avian cell lines in vitro, nor does the absence of HMG-17 protein lead to any major changes in cellular phenotype, at least in lymphoid cells.
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- Y Li
- Department of Microbiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA
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Mishra RN, Kanungo MS. Alterations in histones of the liver and oviduct of Japanese quail during aging. Mol Biol Rep 1994; 20:15-8. [PMID: 7845393 DOI: 10.1007/bf00999850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Age-related changes occur in histones of the liver and oviduct of the female quail. In the liver an extra histone band, named HCX, between H2A and H4, is observed that increases with age. In the oviduct, a large complex of histones is seen which is tissue-specific. This complex declines with increasing age. The changes in the histones of the oviduct of adult and old birds in response to estradiol and progesterone are age-related. In the adult, the histone-complex increases after administration of either one of the hormones. In old birds, however, it is seen only after progesterone administration. Thus, the alterations in histones in the birds are not only tissue- and age-related, but also vary in response to steroid hormones.
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- R N Mishra
- Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
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Mg(2+)-dependent cleavage of DNA into kilobase pair fragments is responsible for the initial degradation of DNA in apoptosis. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)36542-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Positive and negative regulation of retinoid X receptor gene expression by thyroid hormone in the rat. Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls by thyroid hormone. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)42064-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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DNase I and micrococcal nuclease analysis of the tomato proteinase inhibitor I gene in chromatin. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)54169-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Ma XJ, Goodridge AG. Nutritional regulation of nucleosomal structure at the chicken malic enzyme promoter in liver. Nucleic Acids Res 1992; 20:4997-5002. [PMID: 1408817 PMCID: PMC334275 DOI: 10.1093/nar/20.19.4997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Transcription of the chicken malic enzyme gene in the liver is stimulated by feeding and inhibited by starvation. Concomitant with the increase in transcription caused by refeeding, chromatin structure around the transcription start site of the malic enzyme gene is modified in the liver. Digestion of chromatin in isolated nuclei with DNase I revealed four feeding-induced DNase I hypersensitive sites (-220, -170, -130 and -70 bp) near the malic enzyme promoter. Similarly, digestion of chromatin with restriction endonucleases detected enhanced cleavage within this region when birds were refed. Micrococcal nuclease detected the presence of nucleosomes over this region in the starved state, but not in the fed state. After food was withdrawn from fed birds, nucleosomes were reformed in this region within 6 h. The speed and magnitude of the changes in nucleosomal structure in this region suggest that they did not require DNA replication.
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- X J Ma
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242
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Gilbert DM, Losson R, Chambon P. Ligand dependence of estrogen receptor induced changes in chromatin structure. Nucleic Acids Res 1992; 20:4525-31. [PMID: 1408752 PMCID: PMC334180 DOI: 10.1093/nar/20.17.4525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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To determine whether the human estrogen receptor requires ligand to bind to its cognate estrogen receptor element (ERE) in vivo, we have examined the structure of chromatin at a chromosomally integrated ERE-URA3 reporter gene in yeast, and the influence of ligand bound and ligand free estrogen receptors on that structure. Using indirect end-labelling to map DNaseI and micrococcal nuclease sensitive sites, we found that receptor induced alterations in chromatin structure were completely dependent upon the presence of estradiol. These same alterations in chromatin structure were induced by a truncated estrogen receptor with both TAF-1 and TAF-2 transactivation functions deleted, suggesting that DNA binding per se disrupts chromatin structure. These results support models in which the estrogen receptor requires ligand to bind to the ERE in vivo.
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- D M Gilbert
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes, CNRS, Unité 184 de Biologie Moléculaire et de Génie Génétique, INSERM, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France
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Basu HS, Sturkenboom MC, Delcros JG, Csokan PP, Szollosi J, Feuerstein BG, Marton LJ. Effect of polyamine depletion on chromatin structure in U-87 MG human brain tumour cells. Biochem J 1992; 282 ( Pt 3):723-7. [PMID: 1554353 PMCID: PMC1130847 DOI: 10.1042/bj2820723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The chromatin structure of polyamine-depleted U-87 MG human brain tumour cells was studied by following the kinetics of digestion of cell nuclei by micrococcal nuclease and bovine pancreatic DNAase I. Cells growing in monolayers were treated with either alpha-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), to deplete putrescine and spermidine, or N1,N14-bis(ethyl)homospermine (BE-4-4-4), to deplete putrescine, spermidine and spermine. BE-4-4-4 increased the initial rates of digestion and the magnitudes of limit digest by both enzymes; DFMO increased the limit digests without affecting initial digestion rates. Addition of 1 mM-putrescine 1 day after addition of DFMO reversed the effect of DFMO on limit digests. (Because polyamine uptake is low in cells treated with BE-4-4-4, and because putrescine does not reverse the growth-inhibitory effects of BE-4-4-4, reversal of the effects of BE-4-4-4 with putrescine was not attempted.) The increases in initial rates and limit digests did not result from changes in the lengths of nucleosomal or linker DNA, from blocks in cell-cycle progression, or from growth inhibition caused by DFMO or BE-4-4-4. Thus, because the limit digest is highest in cells with the lowest polyamine levels, it seems clear that the enhanced enzymic digestion of nuclei is caused by polyamine depletion and its possible effect on chromatin structure.
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- H S Basu
- Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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Perret C, L'Horset F, Thomasset M. DNase I-hypersensitive sites are associated, in a tissue-specific manner, with expression of the calbindin-D9k-encoding gene. Gene X 1991; 108:227-35. [PMID: 1748308 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(91)90438-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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We have examined the chromatin structure of a 28-kb chromosomal region containing the gene (CaBP9k) encoding calbindin-D9k in different rat tissues. DNase I-hypersensitive sites (HSs) were probed with DNase I using an indirect end-labeling technique. Duodenal chromatin, where the gene is strongly expressed, contained one major HS (HS4) and three minor HSs (HS2, HS3 and HS5) near the promoter region. The HS4 was mapped just upstream from the promoter region and had the characteristics of a tissue-specific HS. The HS5 was located at the transcription start point, it included the TATA box and its presence was correlated with a promoter function. The duodenal chromatin contained two additional HSs, a major HS (HS1) located approx. 3.5 kb upstream from the cap site and a minor HS (HS6) in the second intron at +0.5 kb. Despite the marked effect of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (DHD3) on the CaBP9k mRNA level, the pattern of HSs in duodenal chromatin was unchanged after stimulation with DHD3. The liver chromatin contained one major HS (HS1) identical to the duodenum HS1 (although this tissue does not express CaBP9k). It also contained a liver-specific HS (HS0) 0.1 kb upstream from HS1. The interaction of HS0 with HS1 could explain the absence of CaBP9k expression in the liver. Thus, specific sets of HSs are associated with various functional states of CaBP9k in a tissue-specific manner.
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- C Perret
- INSERM U.120, Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris, France
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Prosperi E, Giangarè MC, Bottiroli G. Nuclease-induced DNA structural changes assessed by flow cytometry with the intercalating dye propidium iodide. CYTOMETRY 1991; 12:323-9. [PMID: 2065557 DOI: 10.1002/cyto.990120406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
Abstract
A flow cytometric analysis of DNA structural changes induced by cleavage with nucleases was performed on isolated HeLa nuclei by assessing changes in stainability with the DNA-specific fluorochrome propidium iodide (PI). After mild digestion with DNAse I, micrococcal nuclease, or with the single-strand-specific S1 and Neurospora crassa nucleases, fluorescence intensity of nuclei stained with PI increased by about 15-30% above the value of undigested control samples. No significant modifications were observed with the restriction enzymes Eco RI, Alu I, and Not I. The DNAse I-induced increase in fluorescence intensity was also observed with the non-intercalating dye Hoechst 33258, but not with mithramycin. Nuclease-induced fluorescence intensity changes as determined with PI were found to be dependent on the dye concentration. A constant increase (about 20%) was measured at dye/DNA-P ratios greater than 0.11. Below this value (2 micrograms/ml PI), the fluorescence intensity of digested samples was 15-30% lower than that of undigested controls. This behaviour towards intercalating dyes is similar to that of the relaxed (nicked) vs. the supercoiled (intact) form of circular DNA. These results suggest that conformation- but not sequence-specific nucleases induce a relaxation of DNA supercoils.
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- E Prosperi
- Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Università di Pavia, Italy
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