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Zhang J, Wang TY, Zhang C, Mi C, Geng S, Tang Y, Wang X. CMV/AAT promoter of MAR-based episomal vector enhanced transgene expression in human hepatic cells. 3 Biotech 2023; 13:354. [PMID: 37810190 PMCID: PMC10558423 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-023-03774-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2023] [Accepted: 09/13/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023] Open
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We have previously developed a non-viral episomal vector based on matrix attachment region (MAR) that can facilitate plasmid replication episomally in mammal cells. In this study, we have focused on the development of an alternative tissue specific episomal vector by incorporating into cis-acting elements. We found that AAT promoter demonstrated the highest eGFP expression level in HepG2, Huh-7 and HL-7702 hepatic cells. Furthermore, hCMV enhancer when combined with AAT promoter significantly improved the eGFP expression level in the transfected HepG2 cells. The mean fluorescence intensity of eGFP in hCMV2 group was 1.33 fold, which was higher than that of the control (p < 0.01), followed by the hCMV1 group (1.21 fold). In addition, the percentages of eGFP-expressing cells in hCMV1 and hCMV2 groups were observed to be 49.3% and 57.2%, which were significantly higher than that of the enhancer-devoid control vector (44.3%) (p < 0.05). Moreover, the eGFP protein were up to 3.5 fold and 5.1 fold (p < 0.05), respectively. This observation could be related with the activities of some specific transcription factors (TFs) during the transcriptional process, such as SRF, REL and CREB1. The composite CMV/AAT promoter can be thus used for efficient transgene expression of MAR-based episomal vector in liver cells and as a potential gene transfer tools for the management of liver diseases. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13205-023-03774-x.
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- Jihong Zhang
- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xinxiang Medical University, No. 601 Jinsui Road, Xinxiang, 453003 Henan Province China
- International Joint Research Laboratory for Recombinant Pharmaceutical Protein Expression System of Henan, Xinxiang, 453003 China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xinxiang Medical University, No. 601 Jinsui Road, Xinxiang, 453003 Henan Province China
- International Joint Research Laboratory for Recombinant Pharmaceutical Protein Expression System of Henan, Xinxiang, 453003 China
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- College of Life Science, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, 453000 China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xinxiang Medical University, No. 601 Jinsui Road, Xinxiang, 453003 Henan Province China
- International Joint Research Laboratory for Recombinant Pharmaceutical Protein Expression System of Henan, Xinxiang, 453003 China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xinxiang Medical University, No. 601 Jinsui Road, Xinxiang, 453003 Henan Province China
- International Joint Research Laboratory for Recombinant Pharmaceutical Protein Expression System of Henan, Xinxiang, 453003 China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xinxiang Medical University, No. 601 Jinsui Road, Xinxiang, 453003 Henan Province China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xinxiang Medical University, No. 601 Jinsui Road, Xinxiang, 453003 Henan Province China
- International Joint Research Laboratory for Recombinant Pharmaceutical Protein Expression System of Henan, Xinxiang, 453003 China
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Two recent reports (Martinez-Ara et al., 2022; Bergman et al., 2022) explore the compatibility between enhancers and promoters and find that enhancers preferentially activate promoters with low intrinsic activity rather than favoring housekeeping or cell-type-specific promoters.
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- Hsiao-Lin V Wang
- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
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Kato K, Kawaguchi A, Nagata K. Template activating factor-I epigenetically regulates the TERT transcription in human cancer cells. Sci Rep 2021; 11:17726. [PMID: 34489496 PMCID: PMC8421516 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-97009-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2020] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Telomere, the terminus of linear chromosome in eukaryotes, is composed of specific repeat DNA which is mainly synthesized by a protein complex called telomerase. The maintenance of telomere DNA is important for unlimited proliferative capacity of cancer cells. The telomerase activity is controlled by the expression level of telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), a catalytic unit of telomerase, in some species including human. Therefore, to reveal the regulatory mechanisms of the transcription of TERT gene is important for understanding the tumor development. We found that template activating factor-I (TAF-I), a multifunctional nuclear protein, is involved in the transcriptional activation of TERT for the maintenance of telomere DNA in HeLa cells. TAF-I maintains the histone H3 modifications involved in transcriptional activation and hypomethylated cytosines in CpG dinucleotides around the transcription start site (TSS) in the TERT gene locus. Collectively, TAF-I is involved in the maintenance of telomere DNA through the regulation of TERT transcription, then consequently the occurrence and/or recurrence of cancer cells.
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- Kohsuke Kato
- Department of Infection Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, 305-8575, Japan.
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- Department of Infection Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, 305-8575, Japan.,Transborder Medical Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.,Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
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Habib O, Mohd Sakri R, Ghazalli N, Chau DM, Ling KH, Abdullah S. Limited expression of non-integrating CpG-free plasmid is associated with increased nucleosome enrichment. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0244386. [PMID: 33347482 PMCID: PMC7751972 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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CpG-free pDNA was reported to facilitate sustained transgene expression with minimal inflammation in vivo as compared to CpG-containing pDNA. However, the expression potential and impact of CpG-free pDNA in in vitro model have never been described. Hence, in this study, we analyzed the transgene expression profiles of CpG-free pDNA in vitro to determine the influence of CpG depletion from the transgene. We found that in contrast to the published in vivo studies, CpG-free pDNA expressed a significantly lower level of luciferase than CpG-rich pDNA in several human cell lines. By comparing novel CpG-free pDNA carrying CpG-free GFP (pZGFP: 0 CpG) to CpG-rich GFP (pRGFP: 60 CpGs), we further showed that the discrepancy was not influenced by external factors such as gene transfer agent, cell species, cell type, and cytotoxicity. Moreover, pZGFP exhibited reduced expression despite having equal gene dosage as pRGFP. Analysis of mRNA distribution revealed that the mRNA export of pZGFP and pRGFP was similar; however, the steady state mRNA level of pZGFP was significantly lower. Upon further investigation, we found that the CpG-free transgene in non-integrating CpG-free pDNA backbone acquired increased nucleosome enrichment as compared with CpG-rich transgene, which may explain the observed reduced level of steady state mRNA. Our findings suggest that nucleosome enrichment could regulate non-integrating CpG-free pDNA expression and has implications on pDNA design.
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- Omar Habib
- Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Genetics and Regenerative Medicine Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Genetics and Regenerative Medicine Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Faculty of Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Genetics and Regenerative Medicine Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Genetics and Regenerative Medicine Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Genetics and Regenerative Medicine Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Genetics and Regenerative Medicine Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- UPM-MAKNA Cancer Research Laboratory, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Cai YM, Kallam K, Tidd H, Gendarini G, Salzman A, Patron NJ. Rational design of minimal synthetic promoters for plants. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 48:11845-11856. [PMID: 32856047 DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.14.095406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2020] [Revised: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 05/20/2023] Open
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Promoters serve a critical role in establishing baseline transcriptional capacity through the recruitment of proteins, including transcription factors. Previously, a paucity of data for cis-regulatory elements in plants meant that it was challenging to determine which sequence elements in plant promoter sequences contributed to transcriptional function. In this study, we have identified functional elements in the promoters of plant genes and plant pathogens that utilize plant transcriptional machinery for gene expression. We have established a quantitative experimental system to investigate transcriptional function, investigating how identity, density and position contribute to regulatory function. We then identified permissive architectures for minimal synthetic plant promoters enabling the computational design of a suite of synthetic promoters of different strengths. These have been used to regulate the relative expression of output genes in simple genetic devices.
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- Yao-Min Cai
- Engineering Biology, Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norfolk NR4 7UZ, UK
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- Engineering Biology, Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norfolk NR4 7UZ, UK
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- Engineering Biology, Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norfolk NR4 7UZ, UK
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- Engineering Biology, Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norfolk NR4 7UZ, UK
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- Engineering Biology, Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norfolk NR4 7UZ, UK
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- Engineering Biology, Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norfolk NR4 7UZ, UK
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Cai YM, Kallam K, Tidd H, Gendarini G, Salzman A, Patron N. Rational design of minimal synthetic promoters for plants. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 48:11845-11856. [PMID: 32856047 PMCID: PMC7708054 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2020] [Revised: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Promoters serve a critical role in establishing baseline transcriptional capacity through the recruitment of proteins, including transcription factors. Previously, a paucity of data for cis-regulatory elements in plants meant that it was challenging to determine which sequence elements in plant promoter sequences contributed to transcriptional function. In this study, we have identified functional elements in the promoters of plant genes and plant pathogens that utilize plant transcriptional machinery for gene expression. We have established a quantitative experimental system to investigate transcriptional function, investigating how identity, density and position contribute to regulatory function. We then identified permissive architectures for minimal synthetic plant promoters enabling the computational design of a suite of synthetic promoters of different strengths. These have been used to regulate the relative expression of output genes in simple genetic devices.
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- Yao-Min Cai
- Engineering Biology, Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norfolk NR4 7UZ, UK
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- Engineering Biology, Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norfolk NR4 7UZ, UK
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- Engineering Biology, Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norfolk NR4 7UZ, UK
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- Engineering Biology, Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norfolk NR4 7UZ, UK
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- Engineering Biology, Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norfolk NR4 7UZ, UK
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- Engineering Biology, Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norfolk NR4 7UZ, UK
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Bozek M, Gompel N. Developmental Transcriptional Enhancers: A Subtle Interplay between Accessibility and Activity: Considering Quantitative Accessibility Changes between Different Regulatory States of an Enhancer Deconvolutes the Complex Relationship between Accessibility and Activity. Bioessays 2020; 42:e1900188. [PMID: 32142172 DOI: 10.1002/bies.201900188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2019] [Revised: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Measurements of open chromatin in specific cell types are widely used to infer the spatiotemporal activity of transcriptional enhancers. How reliable are these predictions? In this review, it is argued that the relationship between the accessibility and activity of an enhancer is insufficiently described by simply considering open versus closed chromatin, or active versus inactive enhancers. Instead, recent studies focusing on the quantitative nature of accessibility signal reveal subtle differences between active enhancers and their different inactive counterparts: the closed silenced state and the accessible primed and repressed states. While the open structure as such is not a specific indicator of enhancer activity, active enhancers display a higher degree of accessibility than the primed and repressed states. Molecular mechanisms that may account for these quantitative differences are discussed. A model that relates molecular events at an enhancer to changes in its activity and accessibility in a developing tissue is also proposed.
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- Marta Bozek
- Department Biochemie, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Genzentrum, 81377, München, Germany
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- Fakultät für Biologie, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Biozentrum, 82152, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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Suzuki T, Wakao Y, Goda T, Kamiya H. Conventional plasmid DNAs with a CpG-containing backbone achieve durable transgene expression in mouse liver. J Gene Med 2020; 22:e3138. [PMID: 31696985 DOI: 10.1002/jgm.3138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2019] [Revised: 10/23/2019] [Accepted: 10/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Durable transgene expression from plasmid DNAs is the key to gene therapy with non-viral vectors. A comparison of the durability of transgene expression from plasmid DNAs with the CpG-free and -containing backbones is important. METHODS We constructed plasmid DNAs with the CpG-containing backbone, various transcription regulatory sequences with and without CpG, and the gene encoding Gaussia princeps luciferase, which is apparently non-immunogenic. The tail vein hydrodynamics-based method was used for plasmid injection into mice, and the luciferase activity in serum was tracked for 28 days. RESULTS The plasmid DNAs containing the albumin promoter [with or without the cytomegalovirus (CMV) enhancer] and the elongation factor (EF)1α promoter plus the CMV enhancer exhibited long-term luciferase expression. The expression from the plasmid DNA containing the albumin promoter without the CMV enhancer was maintained for at least 24 weeks and was similar to that from the corresponding CpG-free plasmid DNA. CONCLUSIONS The results obtained in the present study suggest that special sequences/systems are unnecessary for durable transgene expression from plasmid DNAs when the proper transcription regulatory sequences are used.
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- Tetsuya Suzuki
- Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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Wu N, Nguyen XN, Wang L, Appourchaux R, Zhang C, Panthu B, Gruffat H, Journo C, Alais S, Qin J, Zhang N, Tartour K, Catez F, Mahieux R, Ohlmann T, Liu M, Du B, Cimarelli A. The interferon stimulated gene 20 protein (ISG20) is an innate defense antiviral factor that discriminates self versus non-self translation. PLoS Pathog 2019; 15:e1008093. [PMID: 31600344 PMCID: PMC6805002 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2019] [Revised: 10/22/2019] [Accepted: 09/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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ISG20 is a broad spectrum antiviral protein thought to directly degrade viral RNA. However, this mechanism of inhibition remains controversial. Using the Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) as a model RNA virus, we show here that ISG20 interferes with viral replication by decreasing protein synthesis in the absence of RNA degradation. Importantly, we demonstrate that ISG20 exerts a translational control over a large panel of non-self RNA substrates including those originating from transfected DNA, while sparing endogenous transcripts. This activity correlates with the protein's ability to localize in cytoplasmic processing bodies. Finally, these functions are conserved in the ISG20 murine ortholog, whose genetic ablation results in mice with increased susceptibility to viral infection. Overall, our results posit ISG20 as an important defense factor able to discriminate the self/non-self origins of the RNA through translation modulation.
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- Nannan Wu
- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Inserm, U1111, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Disease Institute, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Inserm, U1111, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Inserm, U1111, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Inserm, U1111, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Inserm, U1111, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Inserm, U1111, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Inserm, U1111, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Inserm, U1111, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSERM 1052, CNRS 5286, Centre Léon Bérard, Cancer Research Center of Lyon, Lyon, France
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Inserm, U1111, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Inserm, U1111, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
- * E-mail: (BD); (AC)
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Inserm, U1111, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France
- * E-mail: (BD); (AC)
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Suzuki T, Wakao Y, Watanabe T, Hori M, Ikeda Y, Tsuchiya H, Kogure K, Harada-Shiba M, Fujimuro M, Kamiya H. No enhancing effects of plasmid-specific histone acetyltransferase recruitment system on transgene expression in vivo. NUCLEOSIDES NUCLEOTIDES & NUCLEIC ACIDS 2019; 38:942-949. [PMID: 31299884 DOI: 10.1080/15257770.2019.1638514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Altered levels of histone acetylation are associated with changes in chromosomal gene expression. Thus, the specific acetylation of histones bound to plasmid DNA might increase transgene expression. Previously, the expression of the histone acetyltransferase domain of CREB-binding protein fused to the sequence-dependent DNA binding domain of GAL4 (GAL4-HAT) successfully improved reporter gene expression in cultured cells [J. Biosci. Bioengng. 123, 277-280 (2017)]. In this study, the same approach was applied for transgene expression in mice. The activator and reporter plasmid DNAs bearing the genes for GAL4-HAT and Gaussia princeps luciferase, respectively, were co-administered into the mouse liver by hydrodynamics-based tail vein injection, and the Gaussia luciferase activity in serum was measured for two weeks. Unexpectedly, the co-injection of the GAL4-HAT and luciferase plasmid DNAs seemed to decrease, rather than increase, luciferase expression. Moreover, the co-injection apparently reduced the amount of luciferase DNA in the liver. These results indicated that this system is ineffective in vivo and suggested the exclusion of hepatic cells expressing GAL4-HAT.
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- Tetsuya Suzuki
- Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences , Hiroshima University , Hiroshima , Japan
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- Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences , Hiroshima University , Hiroshima , Japan
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- Department of Cell Biology , Kyoto Pharmaceutical University , Kyoto , Japan
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- Department of Molecular Innovation in Lipidology , National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute , Suita , Osaka , Japan
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- Department of Biophysical Chemistry , Kyoto Pharmaceutical University , Kyoto , Japan.,Laboratory of Medicinal Cell Biology, Kobe Pharmaceutical University , Kobe , Japan
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- Department of Biophysical Chemistry , Kyoto Pharmaceutical University , Kyoto , Japan.,Graduate School of Medicine , Tottori University , Yonago , Tottori , Japan
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- Department of Biophysical Chemistry , Kyoto Pharmaceutical University , Kyoto , Japan.,Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences , Tokushima University , Tokushima , Japan
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- Department of Molecular Innovation in Lipidology , National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute , Suita , Osaka , Japan
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- Department of Cell Biology , Kyoto Pharmaceutical University , Kyoto , Japan
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- Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences , Hiroshima University , Hiroshima , Japan
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Brun M, Jain S, Monckton EA, Godbout R. Nuclear Factor I Represses the Notch Effector HEY1 in Glioblastoma. Neoplasia 2018; 20:1023-1037. [PMID: 30195713 PMCID: PMC6138789 DOI: 10.1016/j.neo.2018.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2018] [Revised: 08/17/2018] [Accepted: 08/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Glioblastomas (GBMs) are highly aggressive brain tumors with a dismal prognosis. Nuclear factor I (NFI) is a family of transcription factors that controls glial cell differentiation in the developing central nervous system. NFIs have previously been shown to regulate the expression of astrocyte markers such as glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in both normal brain and GBM cells. We used chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)–on-chip to identify additional NFI targets in GBM cells. Analysis of our ChIP data revealed ~400 putative NFI target genes including an effector of the Notch signaling pathway, HEY1, implicated in the maintenance of neural stem cells. All four NFIs (NFIA, NFIB, NFIC, and NFIX) bind to NFI recognition sites located within 1 kb upstream of the HEY1 transcription site. We further showed that NFI negatively regulates HEY1 expression, with knockdown of all four NFIs in GBM cells resulting in increased HEY1 RNA levels. HEY1 knockdown in GBM cells decreased cell proliferation, increased cell migration, and decreased neurosphere formation. Finally, we found a general correlation between elevated levels of HEY1 and expression of the brain neural stem/progenitor cell marker B-FABP in GBM cell lines. Knockdown of HEY1 resulted in an increase in the RNA levels of the GFAP astrocyte differentiation marker. Overall, our data indicate that HEY1 is negatively regulated by NFI family members and is associated with increased proliferation, decreased migration, and increased stem cell properties in GBM cells.
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- Miranda Brun
- Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 1Z2
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- Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 1Z2
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- Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 1Z2
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- Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 1Z2.
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Ramos Pittol JM, Oruba A, Mittler G, Saccani S, van Essen D. Zbtb7a is a transducer for the control of promoter accessibility by NF-kappa B and multiple other transcription factors. PLoS Biol 2018; 16:e2004526. [PMID: 29813070 PMCID: PMC5993293 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2004526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2017] [Revised: 06/08/2018] [Accepted: 04/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Gene expression in eukaryotes is controlled by DNA sequences at promoter and enhancer regions, whose accessibility for binding by regulatory proteins dictates their specific patterns of activity. Here, we identify the protein Zbtb7a as a factor required for inducible changes in accessibility driven by transcription factors (TFs). We show that Zbtb7a binds to a significant fraction of genomic promoters and enhancers, encompassing many target genes of nuclear factor kappa B (NFκB) p65 and a variety of other TFs. While Zbtb7a binding is not alone sufficient to directly activate promoters, it is required to enable TF-dependent control of accessibility and normal gene expression. Using p65 as a model TF, we show that Zbtb7a associates with promoters independently of client TF binding. Moreover, the presence of prebound Zbtb7a can specify promoters that are amenable to TF-induced changes in accessibility. Therefore, Zbtb7a represents a widely used promoter factor that transduces signals from other TFs to enable control of accessibility and regulation of gene expression. Gene activation is driven by the binding of regulatory proteins to the specific DNA sequences that control each gene. However, these sequences are not always accessible for binding in every type of cell, and so differences in their accessibility can underlie the range of cell types in which particular genes can be activated. Although several cellular processes can alter the accessibilities of these sequences, it is still often unclear how these processes are directed to act at specific genes. We have discovered that the protein Zbtb7a binds near numerous gene-regulatory sequences throughout the genome and that it enables other DNA-binding proteins to trigger changes in their accessibility and to activate nearby genes. However, unlike many other factors that control gene activation, the binding of Zbtb7a alone does not seem to be sufficient to switch on gene expression; instead, its function is required for activation of genes that are independently bound by a specific set of transcription factors (TFs), and it could therefore be considered to “transduce” their gene-regulatory activities. The implication of this is that the presence or absence of Zbtb7a at any gene in a particular cell type may represent one of the aspects that can determine whether that gene is able to be activated or not.
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- José Miguel Ramos Pittol
- Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice, Nice, France
- Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice, Nice, France
- Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
- * E-mail: (DE); (SS)
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- Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice, Nice, France
- Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
- * E-mail: (DE); (SS)
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Mikhaylichenko O, Bondarenko V, Harnett D, Schor IE, Males M, Viales RR, Furlong EEM. The degree of enhancer or promoter activity is reflected by the levels and directionality of eRNA transcription. Genes Dev 2018; 32:42-57. [PMID: 29378788 PMCID: PMC5828394 DOI: 10.1101/gad.308619.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2017] [Accepted: 12/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
Abstract
Here, Mikhaylichenko et al. investigate the transcriptional properties of enhancers during Drosophila embryogenesis using characterized developmental enhancers. The authors demonstrate that while the timing of enhancer transcription is correlated with enhancer activity, the levels and directionality of transcription are highly varied among active enhancers and conclude that this is likely an inherent sequence property of the elements themselves. Gene expression is regulated by promoters, which initiate transcription, and enhancers, which control their temporal and spatial activity. However, the discovery that mammalian enhancers also initiate transcription questions the inherent differences between enhancers and promoters. Here, we investigate the transcriptional properties of enhancers during Drosophila embryogenesis using characterized developmental enhancers. We show that while the timing of enhancer transcription is generally correlated with enhancer activity, the levels and directionality of transcription are highly varied among active enhancers. To assess how this impacts function, we developed a dual transgenic assay to simultaneously measure enhancer and promoter activities from a single element in the same embryo. Extensive transgenic analysis revealed a relationship between the direction of endogenous transcription and the ability to function as an enhancer or promoter in vivo, although enhancer RNA (eRNA) production and activity are not always strictly coupled. Some enhancers (mainly bidirectional) can act as weak promoters, producing overlapping spatio–temporal expression. Conversely, bidirectional promoters often act as strong enhancers, while unidirectional promoters generally cannot. The balance between enhancer and promoter activity is generally reflected in the levels and directionality of eRNA transcription and is likely an inherent sequence property of the elements themselves.
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- Olga Mikhaylichenko
- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Laprairie RB, Denovan-Wright EM, Wright JM. Differential regulation of the duplicated fabp7 , fabp10 and fabp11 genes of zebrafish by peroxisome proliferator activated receptors. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2017; 213:81-90. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2017.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2017] [Revised: 08/20/2017] [Accepted: 08/20/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Fuglerud BM, Lemma RB, Wanichawan P, Sundaram AYM, Eskeland R, Gabrielsen OS. A c-Myb mutant causes deregulated differentiation due to impaired histone binding and abrogated pioneer factor function. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:7681-7696. [PMID: 28472346 PMCID: PMC5570105 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2017] [Accepted: 04/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The transcription factor c-Myb is involved in early differentiation and proliferation of haematopoietic cells, where it operates as a regulator of self-renewal and multi-lineage differentiation. Deregulated c-Myb plays critical roles in leukaemias and other human cancers. Due to its role as a master regulator, we hypothesized it might function as a pioneer transcription factor. Our approach to test this was to analyse a mutant of c-Myb, D152V, previously reported to cause haematopoietic defects in mice by an unknown mechanism. Our transcriptome data from K562 cells indicates that this mutation specifically affects c-Myb's ability to regulate genes involved in differentiation, causing failure in c-Myb's ability to block differentiation. Furthermore, we see a major effect of this mutation in assays where chromatin opening is involved. We show that each repeat in the minimal DNA-binding domain of c-Myb binds to histones and that D152V disrupts histone binding of the third repeat. ATAC-seq data indicates this mutation impairs the ability of c-Myb to cause chromatin opening at specific sites. Taken together, our findings support that c-Myb acts as a pioneer factor and show that D152V impairs this function. The D152V mutant is the first mutant of a transcription factor specifically destroying pioneer factor function.
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- Bettina M Fuglerud
- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, P.O.Box 1066 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, P.O.Box 1066 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, P.O.Box 1066 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway.,Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, P.O.Box 4956 Nydalen, N-0424 Oslo, Norway.,Center for Heart Failure Research, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, P.O.Box 4956 Nydalen, N-0424 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, P.O.Box 4950 Nydalen, N-0424 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, P.O.Box 1066 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway.,Norwegian Center for Stem Cell Research, Department of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital, P.O.Box 1112 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, P.O.Box 1066 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway
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Kreimer A, Zeng H, Edwards MD, Guo Y, Tian K, Shin S, Welch R, Wainberg M, Mohan R, Sinnott-Armstrong NA, Li Y, Eraslan G, AMIN TB, Goke J, Mueller NS, Kellis M, Kundaje A, Beer MA, Keles S, Gifford DK, Yosef N. Predicting gene expression in massively parallel reporter assays: A comparative study. Hum Mutat 2017; 38:1240-1250. [PMID: 28220625 PMCID: PMC5560998 DOI: 10.1002/humu.23197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2016] [Revised: 01/19/2017] [Accepted: 02/12/2017] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
Abstract
In many human diseases, associated genetic changes tend to occur within noncoding regions, whose effect might be related to transcriptional control. A central goal in human genetics is to understand the function of such noncoding regions: given a region that is statistically associated with changes in gene expression (expression quantitative trait locus [eQTL]), does it in fact play a regulatory role? And if so, how is this role "coded" in its sequence? These questions were the subject of the Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation eQTL challenge. Participants were given a set of sequences that flank eQTLs in humans and were asked to predict whether these are capable of regulating transcription (as evaluated by massively parallel reporter assays), and whether this capability changes between alternative alleles. Here, we report lessons learned from this community effort. By inspecting predictive properties in isolation, and conducting meta-analysis over the competing methods, we find that using chromatin accessibility and transcription factor binding as features in an ensemble of classifiers or regression models leads to the most accurate results. We then characterize the loci that are harder to predict, putting the spotlight on areas of weakness, which we expect to be the subject of future studies.
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- Anat Kreimer
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Center for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Statistics, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Statistics, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Computer Science, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Computer Science, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Computer Science, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Computational Cell Maps, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Computational and Systems Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore 138672, Singapore
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- Computational and Systems Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore 138672, Singapore
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- Computational Cell Maps, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Computer Science, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Statistics, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Center for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02139
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Nishihara M, Kanda GN, Suzuki T, Yamakado S, Harashima H, Kamiya H. Enhanced transgene expression by plasmid-specific recruitment of histone acetyltransferase. J Biosci Bioeng 2017; 123:277-280. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2016.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2016] [Revised: 09/10/2016] [Accepted: 09/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Smirnov NA, Akopov SB, Didych DA, Nikolaev LG. In trans promoter activation by enhancers in transient transfection. Gene 2017; 603:15-20. [PMID: 27956170 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2016.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Revised: 11/15/2016] [Accepted: 12/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Earlier, it was reported that the strong cytomegalovirus enhancer can activate the cytomegalovirus promoter in trans, i.e. as a separate plasmid co-transfected with a promoter-reporter gene construct. Here we demonstrate that the ability of enhancers to activate promoters in trans in transient transfection experiments is a property of not only viral regulatory elements but also of various genomic enhancers and promoters. Enhancer-promoter activation in trans is promoter- and cell type-specific, and accompanied by physical interaction between promoter and enhancer as revealed by chromosome conformation capture assays. Thus, promoter activation in transient co-transfection of promoters and enhancers shares a number of important traits with long-distance promoter activation by enhancers in living cells and may therefore serve as a model of this fundamental cellular process.
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- N A Smirnov
- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997 Moscow, Russia
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- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997 Moscow, Russia
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- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997 Moscow, Russia
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- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997 Moscow, Russia.
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Inoue F, Kircher M, Martin B, Cooper GM, Witten DM, McManus MT, Ahituv N, Shendure J. A systematic comparison reveals substantial differences in chromosomal versus episomal encoding of enhancer activity. Genome Res 2016; 27:38-52. [PMID: 27831498 PMCID: PMC5204343 DOI: 10.1101/gr.212092.116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 170] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2016] [Accepted: 11/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
Candidate enhancers can be identified on the basis of chromatin modifications, the binding of chromatin modifiers and transcription factors and cofactors, or chromatin accessibility. However, validating such candidates as bona fide enhancers requires functional characterization, typically achieved through reporter assays that test whether a sequence can increase expression of a transcriptional reporter via a minimal promoter. A longstanding concern is that reporter assays are mainly implemented on episomes, which are thought to lack physiological chromatin. However, the magnitude and determinants of differences in cis-regulation for regulatory sequences residing in episomes versus chromosomes remain almost completely unknown. To address this systematically, we developed and applied a novel lentivirus-based massively parallel reporter assay (lentiMPRA) to directly compare the functional activities of 2236 candidate liver enhancers in an episomal versus a chromosomally integrated context. We find that the activities of chromosomally integrated sequences are substantially different from the activities of the identical sequences assayed on episomes, and furthermore are correlated with different subsets of ENCODE annotations. The results of chromosomally based reporter assays are also more reproducible and more strongly predictable by both ENCODE annotations and sequence-based models. With a linear model that combines chromatin annotations and sequence information, we achieve a Pearson's R2 of 0.362 for predicting the results of chromosomally integrated reporter assays. This level of prediction is better than with either chromatin annotations or sequence information alone and also outperforms predictive models of episomal assays. Our results have broad implications for how cis-regulatory elements are identified, prioritized and functionally validated.
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- Fumitaka Inoue
- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama 35806, USA
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- Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF Diabetes Center, Keck Center for Noncoding RNA, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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Kunitomi A, Yuasa S, Sugiyama F, Saito Y, Seki T, Kusumoto D, Kashimura S, Takei M, Tohyama S, Hashimoto H, Egashira T, Tanimoto Y, Mizuno S, Tanaka S, Okuno H, Yamazawa K, Watanabe H, Oda M, Kaneda R, Matsuzaki Y, Nagai T, Okano H, Yagami KI, Tanaka M, Fukuda K. H1foo Has a Pivotal Role in Qualifying Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Stem Cell Reports 2016; 6:825-833. [PMID: 27237376 PMCID: PMC4912480 DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2016.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2015] [Revised: 04/27/2016] [Accepted: 04/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are a hallmark of ideal pluripotent stem cells. Epigenetic reprogramming of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) has not been fully accomplished. iPSC generation is similar to somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) in oocytes, and this procedure can be used to generate ESCs (SCNT-ESCs), which suggests the contribution of oocyte-specific constituents. Here, we show that the mammalian oocyte-specific linker histone H1foo has beneficial effects on iPSC generation. Induction of H1foo with Oct4, Sox2, and Klf4 significantly enhanced the efficiency of iPSC generation. H1foo promoted in vitro differentiation characteristics with low heterogeneity in iPSCs. H1foo enhanced the generation of germline-competent chimeric mice from iPSCs in a manner similar to that for ESCs. These findings indicate that H1foo contributes to the generation of higher-quality iPSCs. H1foo enhanced the efficiency of iPSC generation H1foo promoted in vitro differentiation characteristics with low heterogeneity H1foo enhanced the generation of germline-competent chimeric mice
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- Akira Kunitomi
- Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.
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- Laboratory Animal Resource Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Laboratory Animal Resource Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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- Laboratory Animal Resource Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Sakaguchi Laboratory, Department of Systems Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Electron Microscope Laboratory, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Laboratory Animal Resource Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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Kumar DL, Kumar PL, James PF. Methylation-dependent and independent regulatory regions in the Na,K-ATPase alpha4 (Atp1a4) gene may impact its testis-specific expression. Gene 2016; 575:339-52. [PMID: 26343794 PMCID: PMC4662617 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2015] [Revised: 08/31/2015] [Accepted: 09/03/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
Abstract
The α4 Na,K-ATPase is a sperm-specific protein essential for sperm motility and fertility yet little is known about the mechanisms that regulate its expression in germ cells. Here, the potential involvement of DNA methylation in regulating the expression of this sperm-specific protein is explored. A single, intragenic CpG island (Mα4-CGI) was identified in the gene encoding the mouse α4 Na,K-ATPase (Atp1a4), which displayed reduced methylation in mouse sperm (cells that contain α4) compared to mouse kidney (tissue that lacks α4 expression). Unlike the intragenic CGI, the putative promoter (the -700 to +200 region relative to the transcriptional start site) of Atp1a4 did not show differential methylation between kidney and sperm nevertheless it did drive methylation-dependent reporter gene expression in the male germ cell line GC-1spg. Furthermore, treatment of GC-1spg cells with 5-aza2-deoxycytidine led to upregulation of the α4 transcript and decreased methylation of both the Atp1a4 promoter and the Mα4-CGI. In addition, Atp1a4 expression in mouse embryonic stem cells deficient in DNA methyltransferases suggests that both maintenance and de novo methylation are involved in regulating its expression. In an attempt to define the regulatory function of the Mα4-CGI, possible roles of the Mα4-CGI in regulating Atp1a4 expression via methylation-dependent transcriptional elongation inhibition in somatic cells and via its ability to repress promoter activity in germ cells were uncovered. In all, our data suggests that both the promoter and the intragenic CGI could combine to provide multiple modes of regulation for optimizing the Atp1a4 expression level in a cell type-specific manner.
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- Deepti L Kumar
- Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States
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- Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States
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- Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States.
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Cheng D, Zhao Y, Wang S, Jia W, Kang J, Zhu J. Human Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase (hTERT) Transcription Requires Sp1/Sp3 Binding to the Promoter and a Permissive Chromatin Environment. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:30193-203. [PMID: 26487723 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.662221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The transcription of human telomerase gene hTERT is regulated by transcription factors (TFs), including Sp1 family proteins, and its chromatin environment. To understand its regulation in a relevant chromatin context, we employed bacterial artificial chromosome reporters containing 160 kb of human genomic sequence containing the hTERT gene. Upon chromosomal integration, the bacterial artificial chromosomes recapitulated endogenous hTERT expression, contrary to transient reporters. Sp1/Sp3 expression did not correlate with hTERT promoter activity, and these TFs bound to the hTERT promoters in both telomerase-positive and telomerase-negative cells. Mutation of the proximal GC-box resulted in a dramatic decrease of hTERT promoter activity, and mutations of all five GC-boxes eliminated its transcriptional activity. Neither mutations of GC-boxes nor knockdown of endogenous Sp1 impacted promoter binding by other TFs, including E-box-binding proteins, and histone acetylation and trimethylation of histone H3K9 at the hTERT promoter in telomerase-positive and -negative cells. The result indicated that promoter binding by Sp1/Sp3 was essential, but not a limiting step, for hTERT transcription. hTERT transcription required a permissive chromatin environment. Importantly, our data also revealed different functions of GC-boxes and E-boxes in hTERT regulation; although GC-boxes were essential for promoter activity, factors bound to the E-boxes functioned to de-repress hTERT promoter.
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- De Cheng
- From the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University College of Pharmacy, Spokane, Washington 99210
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- the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, and
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- From the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University College of Pharmacy, Spokane, Washington 99210
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- the School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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- the School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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- From the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University College of Pharmacy, Spokane, Washington 99210, the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, and
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Zhang Q, Giebler HA, Isaacson MK, Nyborg JK. Eviction of linker histone H1 by NAP-family histone chaperones enhances activated transcription. Epigenetics Chromatin 2015; 8:30. [PMID: 26339295 PMCID: PMC4558729 DOI: 10.1186/s13072-015-0022-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2015] [Accepted: 08/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Background In the Metazoan nucleus, core histones assemble the genomic DNA to form nucleosome arrays, which are further compacted into dense chromatin structures by the linker histone H1. The extraordinary density of chromatin creates an obstacle for accessing the genetic information. Regulation of chromatin dynamics is therefore critical to cellular homeostasis, and histone chaperones serve as prominent players in these processes. In the current study, we examined the role of specific histone chaperones in negotiating the inherently repressive chromatin structure during transcriptional activation. Results Using a model promoter, we demonstrate that the human nucleosome assembly protein family members hNap1 and SET/Taf1β stimulate transcription in vitro during pre-initiation complex formation, prior to elongation. This stimulatory effect is dependent upon the presence of activators, p300, and Acetyl-CoA. We show that transcription from our chromatin template is strongly repressed by H1, and that both histone chaperones enhance RNA synthesis by overcoming H1-induced repression. Importantly, both hNap1 and SET/Taf1β directly bind H1, and function to enhance transcription by evicting the linker histone from chromatin reconstituted with H1. In vivo studies demonstrate that SET/Taf1β, but not hNap1, strongly stimulates activated transcription from the chromosomally-integrated model promoter, consistent with the observation that SET/Taf1β is nuclear, whereas hNap1 is primarily cytoplasmic. Together, these observations indicate that SET/Taf1β may serve as a critical regulator of H1 dynamics and gene activation in vivo. Conclusions These studies uncover a novel function for SET that mechanistically couples transcriptional derepression with H1 dynamics. Furthermore, they underscore the significance of chaperone-dependent H1 displacement as an essential early step in the transition of a promoter from a dense chromatin state into one that is permissive to transcription factor binding and robust activation.
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- Qian Zhang
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1870 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1870 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1870 USA ; Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1870 USA
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Dasgupta N, Kumar Thakur B, Ta A, Das S. Caveolin-1 is transcribed from a hypermethylated promoter to mediate colonocyte differentiation and apoptosis. Exp Cell Res 2015; 334:323-36. [DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2015.03.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2015] [Revised: 03/23/2015] [Accepted: 03/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Chromatin-Mediated Reversible Silencing of Sense-Antisense Gene Pairs in Embryonic Stem Cells Is Consolidated upon Differentiation. Mol Cell Biol 2015; 35:2436-47. [PMID: 25963662 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00029-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2015] [Accepted: 04/17/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Genome-wide gene expression studies have indicated that the eukaryotic genome contains many gene pairs showing overlapping sense and antisense transcription. Regulation of these coding and/or noncoding gene pairs involves intricate regulatory mechanisms. In the present study, we utilized an enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP)-tagged reporter plasmid cis linked to a doxycycline-inducible antisense promoter, generating antisense transcription that fully overlaps EGFP, to study the mechanism and dynamics of gene silencing after induction of noncoding antisense transcription in undifferentiated and differentiating mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs). We found that EGFP silencing is reversible in ESCs but is locked into a stable state upon ESC differentiation. Reversible silencing in ESCs is chromatin dependent and is associated with accumulation of trimethylated lysine 36 on histone H3 (H3K36me3) at the EGFP promoter region. In differentiating ESCs, antisense transcription-induced accumulation of H3K36me3 was associated with an increase in CpG methylation at the EGFP promoter. Repression of the sense promoter was affected by small-molecule inhibitors which interfere with DNA methylation and histone demethylation pathways. Our results indicate a general mechanism for silencing of fully overlapping sense-antisense gene pairs involving antisense transcription-induced accumulation of H3K36me3 at the sense promoter, resulting in reversible silencing of the sense partner, which is stabilized during ESC differentiation by CpG methylation.
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Shinagawa T, Takagi T, Tsukamoto D, Tomaru C, Huynh LM, Sivaraman P, Kumarevel T, Inoue K, Nakato R, Katou Y, Sado T, Takahashi S, Ogura A, Shirahige K, Ishii S. Histone variants enriched in oocytes enhance reprogramming to induced pluripotent stem cells. Cell Stem Cell 2015; 14:217-27. [PMID: 24506885 DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2013.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2013] [Revised: 10/01/2013] [Accepted: 12/22/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Expression of Oct3/4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc (OSKM) can reprogram somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) can also be used for reprogramming, suggesting that factors present in oocytes could potentially augment OSKM-mediated induction of pluripotency. Here, we report that two histone variants, TH2A and TH2B, which are highly expressed in oocytes and contribute to activation of the paternal genome after fertilization, enhance OSKM-dependent generation of iPSCs and can induce reprogramming with Klf4 and Oct3/4 alone. TH2A and TH2B are enriched on the X chromosome during the reprogramming process, and their expression in somatic cells increases the DNase I sensitivity of chromatin. In addition, Xist deficiency, which was reported to enhance SCNT reprogramming efficiency, stimulates iPSC generation using TH2A/TH2B in conjunction with OSKM, but not OSKM alone. Thus, TH2A/TH2B may enhance reprogramming by introducing processes that normally operate in zygotes and during SCNT.
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- Toshie Shinagawa
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, CREST Research Project of JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), RIKEN Tsukuba Institute, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan; Department of Functional Genomics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, CREST Research Project of JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), RIKEN Tsukuba Institute, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, CREST Research Project of JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), RIKEN Tsukuba Institute, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, CREST Research Project of JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), RIKEN Tsukuba Institute, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan; Department of Functional Genomics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, CREST Research Project of JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), RIKEN Tsukuba Institute, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan; Department of Functional Genomics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Harima Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba 305-0074, Japan
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- Research Center for Epigenetic Disease, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan; CREST, JST, K's Gobancho, 7 Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0076, Japan
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- Research Center for Epigenetic Disease, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan; CREST, JST, K's Gobancho, 7 Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0076, Japan
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- Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, 812-8582 Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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- RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba 305-0074, Japan
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- Research Center for Epigenetic Disease, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan; CREST, JST, K's Gobancho, 7 Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0076, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, CREST Research Project of JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), RIKEN Tsukuba Institute, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan; Department of Functional Genomics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan.
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Andrieu T, Fustier P, Alikhani-Koupaei R, Ignatova ID, Guettinger A, Frey FJ, Frey BM. Insulin, CCAAT/enhancer-binding proteins and lactate regulate the human 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 gene expression in colon cancer cell lines. PLoS One 2014; 9:e105354. [PMID: 25133511 PMCID: PMC4136812 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2013] [Accepted: 07/23/2014] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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11β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases (11beta-HSD) modulate mineralocorticoid receptor transactivation by glucocorticoids and regulate access to the glucocorticoid receptor. The isozyme 11beta-HSD2 is selectively expressed in mineralocorticoid target tissues and its activity is reduced in various disease states with abnormal sodium retention and hypertension, including the apparent mineralocorticoid excess. As 50% of patients with essential hypertension are insulin resistant and hyperinsulinemic, we hypothesized that insulin downregulates the 11beta-HSD2 activity. In the present study we show that insulin reduced the 11beta-HSD2 activity in cancer colon cell lines (HCT116, SW620 and HT-29) at the transcriptional level, in a time and dose dependent manner. The downregulation was reversible and required new protein synthesis. Pathway analysis using mRNA profiling revealed that insulin treatment modified the expression of the transcription factor family C/EBPs (CCAAT/enhancer-binding proteins) but also of glycolysis related enzymes. Western blot and real time PCR confirmed an upregulation of C/EBP beta isoforms (LAP and LIP) with a more pronounced increase in the inhibitory isoform LIP. EMSA and reporter gene assays demonstrated the role of C/EBP beta isoforms in HSD11B2 gene expression regulation. In addition, secretion of lactate, a byproduct of glycolysis, was shown to mediate insulin-dependent HSD11B2 downregulation. In summary, we demonstrate that insulin downregulates HSD11B2 through increased LIP expression and augmented lactate secretion. Such mechanisms are of interest and potential significance for sodium reabsorption in the colon.
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- Thomas Andrieu
- Department of Nephrology & Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology and Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
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- Department of Nephrology & Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology and Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
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- Department of Nephrology & Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology and Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
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- Department of Nephrology & Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology and Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
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- Department of Nephrology & Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology and Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
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- Department of Nephrology & Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology and Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
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- Department of Nephrology & Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology and Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
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Korenjak M, Kwon E, Morris RT, Anderssen E, Amzallag A, Ramaswamy S, Dyson NJ. dREAM co-operates with insulator-binding proteins and regulates expression at divergently paired genes. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 42:8939-53. [PMID: 25053843 PMCID: PMC4132727 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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dREAM complexes represent the predominant form of E2F/RBF repressor complexes in Drosophila. dREAM associates with thousands of sites in the fly genome but its mechanism of action is unknown. To understand the genomic context in which dREAM acts we examined the distribution and localization of Drosophila E2F and dREAM proteins. Here we report a striking and unexpected overlap between dE2F2/dREAM sites and binding sites for the insulator-binding proteins CP190 and Beaf-32. Genetic assays show that these components functionally co-operate and chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments on mutant animals demonstrate that dE2F2 is important for association of CP190 with chromatin. dE2F2/dREAM binding sites are enriched at divergently transcribed genes, and the majority of genes upregulated by dE2F2 depletion represent the repressed half of a differentially expressed, divergently transcribed pair of genes. Analysis of mutant animals confirms that dREAM and CP190 are similarly required for transcriptional integrity at these gene pairs and suggest that dREAM functions in concert with CP190 to establish boundaries between repressed/activated genes. Consistent with the idea that dREAM co-operates with insulator-binding proteins, genomic regions bound by dREAM possess enhancer-blocking activity that depends on multiple dREAM components. These findings suggest that dREAM functions in the organization of transcriptional domains.
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- Michael Korenjak
- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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Kadota S, Nagata K. Silencing of IFN-stimulated gene transcription is regulated by histone H1 and its chaperone TAF-I. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 42:7642-53. [PMID: 24878923 PMCID: PMC4081089 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Chromatin structure and its alteration play critical roles in the regulation of transcription. However, the transcriptional silencing mechanism with regard to the chromatin structure at an unstimulated state of the interferon (IFN)-stimulated gene (ISG) remains unclear. Here we investigated the role of template activating factor-I (TAF-I, also known as SET) in ISG transcription. Knockdown (KD) of TAF-I increased ISG transcript and simultaneously reduced the histone H1 level on the ISG promoters during the early stages of transcription after IFN stimulation from the unstimulated state. The transcription factor levels on the ISG promoters were increased in TAF-I KD cells only during the early stages of transcription. Furthermore, histone H1 KD also increased ISG transcript. TAF-I and histone H1 double KD did not show the additive effect in ISG transcription, suggesting that TAF-I and histone H1 may act on the same regulatory pathway to control ISG transcription. In addition, TAF-I KD and histone H1 KD affected the chromatin structure near the ISG promoters. On the basis of these findings, we propose that TAF-I and its target histone H1 are key regulators of the chromatin structure at the ISG promoter to maintain the silent state of ISG transcription.
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- Shinichi Kadota
- Department of Infection Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8575, Japan
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- Department of Infection Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8575, Japan
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Teino I, Matvere A, Kuuse S, Ingerpuu S, Maimets T, Kristjuhan A, Tiido T. Transcriptional repression of the Ahr gene by LHCGR signaling in preovulatory granulosa cells is controlled by chromatin accessibility. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2014; 382:292-301. [PMID: 24145128 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2013.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2013] [Revised: 09/08/2013] [Accepted: 10/11/2013] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Recent advances in establishing the role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (Ahr) in normophysiology have discovered its fundamental role, amongst others, in female reproduction. Considering previous studies suggesting the hormonal modulation of Ahr, we aimed to investigate whether in murine granulosa cells (GCs) the gonadotropins regulate Ahr expression and how this is mechanistically implemented. We found that the FSH-like substance--pregnant mare serum gonadotropin--led to stimulation of Ahr expression. More importantly hCG produced relatively rapid reduction of Ahr mRNA in GCs of preovulatory follicles. We show for the first time that LHCGR signaling in regulating the Ahr message involves protein kinase A pathway and is attributable to decreased transcription rate. Finally, we found that Ahr promoter accessibility was decreased by hCG, implicating chromatin remodeling in Ahr gene regulation by LH.
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- Indrek Teino
- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Riia 23, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Riia 23, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Riia 23, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Riia 23, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Riia 23, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Riia 23, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Riia 23, 51010 Tartu, Estonia.
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Koizumi S, Suzuki K, Yamaguchi S. Heavy metal response of the heat shock protein 70 gene is mediated by duplicated heat shock elements and heat shock factor 1. Gene 2013; 522:184-91. [PMID: 23542779 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.03.090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2013] [Revised: 03/13/2013] [Accepted: 03/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Heavy metals induce transcription of a number of mammalian genes, but in most cases the mechanism of induction has not been well characterized. The human heat shock protein 70 gene (hsp70) is activated by several heavy metals such as Cd and Zn, and the heat shock element (HSE) has been proposed to mediate metal response by previous studies. However, it was observed that the lack of further upstream sequences rendered the hsp70 promoter unresponsive to metals. A detailed deletion analysis of the promoter revealed that the distal HSE-like sequence (dHSE) is required for heavy metal response. A supershift assay showed that the heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) recognized dHSE, as well as the proximal HSE (pHSE). An hsp70 promoter variant with a dHSE mutation that blocks HSF1 binding completely lost metal response, demonstrating that the HSF1/dHSE interaction is crucial. Another promoter variant with a similar pHSE mutation partially lost metal response, indicating that both HSEs are required for full activity. Knockdown of HSF1 dramatically reduced the metal response of hsp70, demonstrating its essential role. Furthermore, a reporter gene regulated by the human hsp70 promoter, which lacked metal response in HSF1-null mouse cells, acquired the response upon over-expression of a recombinant human HSF1. These results demonstrate that the duplicated HSEs and HSF1 constitute the mechanism for the heavy metal response of hsp70, which is distinct from the known metal regulatory system for the metallothionein genes.
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- Shinji Koizumi
- Department of Research Planning and Coordination, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, 6-21-1, Nagao, Tama-ku, Kawasaki 214-8585, Japan.
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Preferential binding of hot spot mutant p53 proteins to supercoiled DNA in vitro and in cells. PLoS One 2013; 8:e59567. [PMID: 23555710 PMCID: PMC3608670 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2012] [Accepted: 02/19/2013] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Hot spot mutant p53 (mutp53) proteins exert oncogenic gain-of-function activities. Binding of mutp53 to DNA is assumed to be involved in mutp53-mediated repression or activation of several mutp53 target genes. To investigate the importance of DNA topology on mutp53-DNA recognition in vitro and in cells, we analyzed the interaction of seven hot spot mutp53 proteins with topologically different DNA substrates (supercoiled, linear and relaxed) containing and/or lacking mutp53 binding sites (mutp53BS) using a variety of electrophoresis and immunoprecipitation based techniques. All seven hot spot mutp53 proteins (R175H, G245S, R248W, R249S, R273C, R273H and R282W) were found to have retained the ability of wild-type p53 to preferentially bind circular DNA at native negative superhelix density, while linear or relaxed circular DNA was a poor substrate. The preference of mutp53 proteins for supercoiled DNA (supercoil-selective binding) was further substantiated by competition experiments with linear DNA or relaxed DNA in vitro and ex vivo. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, the preferential binding of mutp53 to a sc mutp53BS was detected also in cells. Furthermore, we have shown by luciferase reporter assay that the DNA topology influences p53 regulation of BAX and MSP/MST1 promoters. Possible modes of mutp53 binding to topologically constrained DNA substrates and their biological consequences are discussed.
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Kamiya H, Miyamoto S, Goto H, Kanda GN, Kobayashi M, Matsuoka I, Harashima H. Enhanced transgene expression from chromatinized plasmid DNA in mouse liver. Int J Pharm 2012; 441:146-50. [PMID: 23247018 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2012.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2012] [Revised: 10/30/2012] [Accepted: 12/05/2012] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Plasmid DNA was chromatinized with core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4) in vitro and was delivered into mouse liver by hydrodynamics-based administration. Transgene expression from the chromatinized plasmid DNA was more efficient than that from plasmid DNA delivered in the naked form. The use of acetylation-enriched histones isolated from cells treated with a histone deacetylase inhibitor (trichostatin A) seemed to be more effective. These results indicated that chromatinized plasmid DNA is useful for efficient transgene expression in vivo.
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- Hiroyuki Kamiya
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuyama 790-8577, Japan.
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Rosowski EE, Saeij JPJ. Toxoplasma gondii clonal strains all inhibit STAT1 transcriptional activity but polymorphic effectors differentially modulate IFNγ induced gene expression and STAT1 phosphorylation. PLoS One 2012; 7:e51448. [PMID: 23240025 PMCID: PMC3519884 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2012] [Accepted: 11/01/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Host defense against the parasite Toxoplasma gondii requires the cytokine interferon-gamma (IFNγ). However, Toxoplasma inhibits the host cell transcriptional response to IFNγ, which is thought to allow the parasite to establish a chronic infection. It is not known whether all strains of Toxoplasma block IFNγ-responsive transcription equally and whether this inhibition occurs solely through the modulation of STAT1 activity or whether other transcription factors are involved. We find that strains from three North American/European clonal lineages of Toxoplasma, types I, II, and III, can differentially modulate specific aspects of IFNγ signaling through the polymorphic effector proteins ROP16 and GRA15. STAT1 tyrosine phosphorylation is activated in the absence of IFNγ by the Toxoplasma kinase ROP16, but this ROP16-activated STAT1 is not transcriptionally active. Many genes induced by STAT1 can also be controlled by other transcription factors and therefore using these genes as specific readouts to determine Toxoplasma inhibition of STAT1 activity might be inappropriate. Indeed, GRA15 and ROP16 modulate the expression of subsets of IFNγ responsive genes through activation of the NF-κB/IRF1 and STAT3/6 transcription factors, respectively. However, using a stable STAT1-specific reporter cell line we show that strains from the type I, II, and III clonal lineages equally inhibit STAT1 transcriptional activity. Furthermore, all three of the clonal lineages significantly inhibit global IFNγ induced gene expression.
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- Emily E. Rosowski
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Gentile MT, Nawa Y, Lunardi G, Florio T, Matsui H, Colucci-D'Amato L. Tryptophan hydroxylase 2 (TPH2) in a neuronal cell line: modulation by cell differentiation and NRSF/rest activity. J Neurochem 2012; 123:963-70. [PMID: 22958208 DOI: 10.1111/jnc.12004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2012] [Revised: 08/29/2012] [Accepted: 09/01/2012] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Serotonin (5-HT) is a neurotransmitter involved in many aspects of the neuronal function. The synthesis of 5-HT is initiated by the hydroxylation of tryptophan, catalyzed by tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH). Two isoforms of TPH (TPH1 and TPH2) have been identified, with TPH2 almost exclusively expressed in the brain. Following TPH2 discovery, it was reported that polymorphisms of both gene and non-coding regions are associated with a spectrum of psychiatric disorders. Thus, insights into the mechanisms that specifically regulate TPH2 expression and its modulation by exogenous stimuli may represent a new therapeutic approach to modify serotonergic neurotransmission. To this aim, a CNS-originated cell line expressing TPH2 endogenously represents a valid model system. In this study, we report that TPH2 transcript and protein are modulated by neuronal differentiation in the cell line A1 mes-c-myc (A1). Moreover, we show luciferase activity driven by the human TPH2 promoter region and demonstrate that upon mutation of the NRSF/REST responsive element, the promoter activity strongly increases with cell differentiation. Our data suggest that A1 cells could represent a model system, allowing an insight into the mechanisms of regulation of TPH2 and to identify novel therapeutic targets in the development of drugs for the management of psychiatric disorders.
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- Maria Teresa Gentile
- Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, Second University of Naples, Caserta, Italy
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Mittelstadt ML, Patel RC. AP-1 mediated transcriptional repression of matrix metalloproteinase-9 by recruitment of histone deacetylase 1 in response to interferon β. PLoS One 2012; 7:e42152. [PMID: 22879913 PMCID: PMC3412826 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2012] [Accepted: 07/02/2012] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) is a 92 kDa zinc-dependant endopeptidase that degrades components of the extracellular matrix. Increased expression of MMP-9 is implicated in many pathological conditions including metastatic cancer, multiple sclerosis, and atherosclerosis. Although it has been widely noted that interferon-β (IFNβ) downregulates both the basal and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA)-induced MMP-9 expression at the transcriptional level, the molecular mechanism of this repression is poorly understood. In the present study we identify a novel mechanism for repression of MMP-9 transcription by IFNβ in HT1080 fibrosarcoma cells. Using reporter assays with promoter deletion constructs we show that IFNβ’s inhibitory effects require a region of the promoter between −154 and −72, which contains an AP-1 binding site. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) studies indicate that IFNβ increases histone deacetylase (HDAC)-1 recruitment to the MMP-9 promoter and reduces histone H3 acetylation, in addition to reduced NF-κB recruitment. ChIP analysis shows that IFNβ induced HDAC1 recruitment to the MMP-9 promoter and IFNβ mediated transcriptional repression is lost when the AP-1 binding site is inactivated by a point mutation. Altogether, our results establish that the repression of MMP-9 transcription in response to IFNβ occurs by the recruitment of HDAC1 via the proximal AP-1 binding site.
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- Megan L. Mittelstadt
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America
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King HA, Trotter KW, Archer TK. Chromatin remodeling during glucocorticoid receptor regulated transactivation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2012; 1819:716-26. [PMID: 22425674 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2012.02.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2012] [Revised: 02/24/2012] [Accepted: 02/28/2012] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Steroid hormone receptor (SR) signaling leads to widespread changes in gene expression, and aberrant SR signaling can lead to malignancies including breast, prostate, and lung cancers. Chromatin remodeling is an essential component of SR signaling, and defining the process of chromatin and nucleosome remodeling during signaling is critical to the continued development of related therapies. The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a key SR that activates numerous promoters including the well defined MMTV promoter. The activation of MMTV by GR provides an excellent model for teasing apart the sequence of events between hormone treatment and changes in gene expression. Comparing hormone-induced transcription from stably integrated promoters with defined nucleosomal structure to that from transiently expressed, unstructured promoters permits key distinctions between interactions that require remodeling and those that do not. The importance of co-activators and histone modifications prior to remodeling and the formation of the preinitiation complex that follows can also be clarified by defining key transition points in the propagation of hormonal signals. Combined with detailed mapping of proteins along the promoter, a temporal and spatial understanding of the signaling and remodeling processes begins to emerge. In this review, we examine SR signaling with a focus on GR activation of the MMTV promoter. We also discuss the ATP-dependent remodeling complex SWI/SNF, which provides the necessary remodeling activity during GR signaling and interacts with several SRs. BRG1, the central ATPase of SWI/SNF, also interacts with a set of BAF proteins that help determine the specialized function and fine-tuned regulation of BRG1 remodeling activity. BRG1 regulation comes from its own subdomains as well as its interactive partners. In particular, the HSA domain region of BRG1 and unique features of its ATPase homology appear to play key roles in regulating remodeling function. Details of the inter-workings of this chromatin remodeling protein continue to be revealed and promise to improve our understanding of the mechanism of chromatin remodeling during steroid hormone signaling. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Chromatin in time and space.
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- Heather A King
- Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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Fukunaga S, Kanda G, Tanase J, Harashima H, Ohyama T, Kamiya H. A designed curved DNA sequence remarkably enhances transgene expression from plasmid DNA in mouse liver. Gene Ther 2011; 19:828-35. [DOI: 10.1038/gt.2011.127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The human CMV promoter/enhancer is one of the strongest promoters for recombinant protein expression in mammalian cells, making the promoter very popular for production of recombinant antibodies. We used an antibody vector design where the antibody heavy and light chain genes were transcribed from a promoter complex consisting of two promoters arranged divergently with the 5' ends of the promoters in close proximity. However, when two identical CMV promoters constituted this promoter complex, the antibody expression observed was lower than expected based on the strength of the individual promoters. To optimize expression we prepared truncated promoter complexes where only one CMV enhancer controlled the initiation of transcription from two divergent minimal CMV core promoters. Antibody expression from the truncated promoter complexes was analyzed both when transiently transfected and upon stable site-specific integration into a CHO DG44 derived cell line. The data showed that it was possible for one enhancer to drive the expression of two core promoters. However, efficient expression from both divergent core promoters was seen only when the unique region upstream of the CMV enhancer was removed. Notably, a 12-fold increase in expression was found from the best of the truncated promoter complexes after stable site-specific integration when compared to the full-length double CMV promoter complex.
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Zhang QJ, Chen HZ, Wang L, Liu DP, Hill JA, Liu ZP. The histone trimethyllysine demethylase JMJD2A promotes cardiac hypertrophy in response to hypertrophic stimuli in mice. J Clin Invest 2011; 121:2447-56. [PMID: 21555854 DOI: 10.1172/jci46277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2011] [Accepted: 03/23/2011] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Cardiac hypertrophy and failure are accompanied by a reprogramming of gene expression that involves transcription factors and chromatin remodeling enzymes. Little is known about the roles of histone methylation and demethylation in this process. To understand the role of JMJD2A, a histone trimethyl demethylase, in cardiac hypertrophy, we generated mouse lines with heart-specific Jmjd2a deletion (hKO) and overexpression (Jmjd2a-Tg). Jmjd2a hKO and Jmjd2a-Tg mice had no overt baseline phenotype, but did demonstrate altered responses to cardiac stresses. While inactivation of Jmjd2a resulted in an attenuated hypertrophic response to transverse aortic constriction-induced (TAC-induced) pressure overload, Jmjd2a-Tg mice displayed exacerbated cardiac hypertrophy. We identified four-and-a-half LIM domains 1 (FHL1), a key component of the mechanotransducer machinery in the heart, as a direct target of JMJD2A. JMJD2A bound to the FHL1 promoter in response to TAC, upregulated FHL1 expression, and downregulated H3K9 trimethylation. Upregulation of FHL1 by JMJD2A was mediated through SRF and myocardin and required its demethylase activity. The expression of JMJD2A was upregulated in human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients. Our studies reveal that JMJD2A promotes cardiac hypertrophy under pathological conditions and suggest what we believe to be a novel mechanism for JMJD2A in reprogramming of gene expression involved in cardiac hypertrophy.
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- Qing-Jun Zhang
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390-9148, USA
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Qiu GH, Leung CHW, Yun T, Xie X, Laban M, Hooi SC. Recognition and suppression of transfected plasmids by protein ZNF511-PRAP1, a potential molecular barrier to transgene expression. Mol Ther 2011; 19:1478-86. [PMID: 21540836 DOI: 10.1038/mt.2011.80] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Nonviral vectors present considerable advantages over viral counterparts in gene transfer. However, the poor expression efficiency of the transfected genes poses a challenge for their use in gene therapy, primarily due to the inability of these vectors to overcome various barriers, including the biological barriers. Here, we report that ZNF511-PRAP1 may be involved in the recognition and inactivation of transfected plasmids. ZNF511-PRAP1 is induced by transfection of plasmid DNA and suppresses the transcription of transfected plasmids. It binds directly to the p21 promoter in transfected plasmids but not the endogenous counterpart. Similarly, ZNF511-PRAP1 suppresses the expression of the green fluorescent protein reporter gene on transiently transfected plasmids but not an integrated red fluorescence reporter gene with the same cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter. Therefore, ZNF511-PRAP1 is able to differentiate between exogenous/nonintegrated and endogenous/integrated DNA. The suppression by ZNF511-PRAP1 is independent of DNA methylation and can be abolished by trichostatin A (TSA) treatment and knockdown of HDAC2 and/or ZNF511-PRAP1. Furthermore, ZNF511-PRAP1 interacts directly with HDAC2. Our results revealed that transfected plasmids are recognized by ZNF511-PRAP1 and suppressed by a repressor complex comprising ZNF511-PRAP1 and HDAC2 and suggest that ZNF511-PRAP1 could play a role as a potential molecular barrier in nonviral transgene expression.
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- Guo-Hua Qiu
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Lalmansingh AS, Urekar CJ, Reddi PP. TDP-43 is a transcriptional repressor: the testis-specific mouse acrv1 gene is a TDP-43 target in vivo. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:10970-82. [PMID: 21252238 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.166587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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TDP-43 is an evolutionarily conserved ubiquitously expressed DNA/RNA-binding protein. Although recent studies have shown its association with a variety of neurodegenerative disorders, the function of TDP-43 remains poorly understood. Here we address TDP-43 function using spermatogenesis as a model system. We previously showed that TDP-43 binds to the testis-specific mouse acrv1 gene promoter in vitro via two GTGTGT-motifs and that mutation of these motifs led to premature transcription in spermatocytes of an otherwise round spermatid-specific promoter. The present study tested the hypothesis that TDP-43 represses acrv1 gene transcription in spermatocytes. Plasmid chromatin immunoprecipitation demonstrated that TDP-43 binds to the acrv1 promoter through GTGTGT motifs in vivo. Reporter gene assays showed that TDP-43 represses acrv1 core promoter-driven transcription via the N-terminal RRM1 domain in a histone deacetylase-independent manner. Consistent with repressor role, ChIP on physiologically isolated germ cells confirmed that TDP-43 occupies the endogenous acrv1 promoter in spermatocytes. Surprisingly, however, TDP-43 remains at the promoter in round spermatids, which express acrv1 mRNA. We show that RNA binding-defective TDP-43, but not splice variant isoforms, relieve repressor function. Transitioning from repressive to active histone marks has little effect on TDP-43 occupancy. Finally, we found that RNA polymerase II is recruited but paused at the acrv1 promoter in spermatocytes. Because mutation of TDP-43 sites caused premature transcription in spermatocytes in vivo, TDP-43 may be involved in pausing RNAPII at the acrv1 promoter in spermatocytes. Overall, our study shows that TDP-43 is a transcriptional repressor and that it regulates spatiotemporal expression of the acrv1 gene during spermatogenesis.
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- Avin S Lalmansingh
- Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
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Komatsu T, Haruki H, Nagata K. Cellular and viral chromatin proteins are positive factors in the regulation of adenovirus gene expression. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 39:889-901. [PMID: 20926393 PMCID: PMC3035442 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The adenovirus genome forms chromatin-like structure with viral core proteins. This complex supports only a low level of transcription in a cell-free system, and thus core proteins have been thought to be negative factors for transcription. The mechanism how the transcription from the viral DNA complexed with core proteins is activated in infected cells remains unclear. Here, we found that both core proteins and histones are bound with the viral DNA in early phases of infection. We also found that acetylation of histone H3 occurs at the promoter regions of viral active genes in a transcription-independent manner. In addition, when a plasmid DNA complexed with core proteins was introduced into cells, core proteins enhanced transcription. Knockdown of TAF-I, a remodeling factor for viral core protein-DNA complexes, reduces the enhancement effect by core proteins, indicating that core proteins positively regulate viral transcription through the interaction with TAF-I. We would propose a possible mechanism that core proteins ensure transcription by regulating viral chromatin structure through the interaction with TAF-I.
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- Tetsuro Komatsu
- Department of Infection Biology, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8575, Japan
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Khoueiry P, Rothbächer U, Ohtsuka Y, Daian F, Frangulian E, Roure A, Dubchak I, Lemaire P. A cis-regulatory signature in ascidians and flies, independent of transcription factor binding sites. Curr Biol 2010; 20:792-802. [PMID: 20434338 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2010] [Revised: 03/12/2010] [Accepted: 03/23/2010] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Transcription initiation is controlled by cis-regulatory modules. Although these modules are usually made of clusters of short transcription factor binding sites, a small minority of such clusters in the genome have cis-regulatory activity. This paradox is currently unsolved. RESULTS To identify what discriminates active from inactive clusters, we focused our attention on short topologically unconstrained clusters of two ETS and two GATA binding sites, similar to the early neural enhancer of Ciona intestinalis Otx. We first computationally identified 55 such clusters, conserved between the two Ciona genomes. In vivo assay of the activity of 19 hits identified three novel early neural enhancers, all located next to genes coexpressed with Otx. Optimization of ETS and GATA binding sites was not always sufficient to confer activity to inactive clusters. Rather, a dinucleotide sequence code associated to nucleosome depletion showed a robust correlation with enhancer potential. Identification of a large collection of Ciona regulatory regions revealed that predicted nucleosome depletion constitutes a general signature of Ciona enhancers, which is conserved between orthologous loci in the two Ciona genomes and which partitions conserved noncoding sequences into a major nucleosome-bound fraction and a minor nucleosome-free fraction with higher cis-regulatory potential. We also found this signature in a large fraction of short Drosophila cis-regulatory modules. CONCLUSION This study indicates that a sequence-based dinucleotide signature, previously associated with nucleosome depletion and independent of transcription factor binding sites, contributes to the definition of a local cis-regulatory potential in two metazoa, Ciona intestinalis and Drosophila melanogaster.
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- Pierre Khoueiry
- Institut du Biologie de Développement de Marseille Luminy (IBDML, UMR 6216), CNRS, Université de la Méditerranée, Parc Scientifique de Luminy Case 907, F-13288, Marseille Cedex 9, France.
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Khobta A, Anderhub S, Kitsera N, Epe B. Gene silencing induced by oxidative DNA base damage: association with local decrease of histone H4 acetylation in the promoter region. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 38:4285-95. [PMID: 20338881 PMCID: PMC2910050 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Oxidized DNA bases, particularly 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG), are endogenously generated in cells, being a cause of carcinogenic mutations and possibly interfering with gene expression. We found that expression of an oxidatively damaged plasmid DNA is impaired after delivery into human host cells not only due to decreased retention in the transfected cells, but also due to selective silencing of the damaged reporter gene. To test whether the gene silencing was associated with a specific change of the chromatin structure, we determined the levels of histone modifications related to transcriptional activation (acetylated histones H3 and H4) or repression (methylated K9 and K27 of the histone H3, and histone H1) in the promoter region and in the downstream transcribed DNA. Acetylation of histone H4 was found to be specifically decreased by 25% in the proximal promoter region of the damaged gene, while minor quantitative changes in other tested chromatin components could not be proven as significant. Treatment with an inhibitor of histone deacetylases, trichostatin A, partially restored expression of the damaged DNA, suggesting a causal connection between the changes of histone acetylation and persistent gene repression. Based on these findings, we propose that silencing of the oxidatively damaged DNA may occur in a chromatin-mediated mechanism.
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- Andriy Khobta
- Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Institute of Pharmacy, Staudingerweg 5, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
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PML/RARalpha fusion protein transactivates the tissue factor promoter through a GAGC-containing element without direct DNA association. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:3716-21. [PMID: 20133705 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0915006107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A severe coagulopathy is a life-threatening complication of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) and is ascribable mainly to the excessive levels of tissue factor (TF) in APL cells regulated in response to the promyelocytic leukemia/retinoic acid receptor alpha (PML/RARalpha) fusion protein. The underlying molecular mechanisms for this regulation remain ill-defined. With U937-PR9 cell lines stably expressing luciferase reporter gene under the control of different mutants of the TF promoter, both luciferase and ChIP data allowed the localization of the PML/RARalpha-responsive sequence in a previously undefined region of the TF promoter at position -230 to -242 devoid of known mammalian transcription factor binding sites. Within this sequence a GAGC motif (-235 to -238) was shown to be crucial because deletion or mutation of these nucleotides impaired both PML/RARalpha interaction and promoter transactivation. However, EMSA results showed that PML/RARalpha did not bind to DNA probes encompassing the -230 to -242 sequences, precluding a direct DNA association. Mutational experiments further suggest that the activator protein 1 (AP-1) sites of the TF promoter are dispensable for PML/RARalpha regulation. This study shows that PML/RARalpha transactivates the TF promoter through an indirect interaction with an element composed of a GAGC motif and the flanking nucleotides, independent of AP-1 binding.
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Brun M, Coles JE, Monckton EA, Glubrecht DD, Bisgrove D, Godbout R. Nuclear factor I regulates brain fatty acid-binding protein and glial fibrillary acidic protein gene expression in malignant glioma cell lines. J Mol Biol 2009; 391:282-300. [PMID: 19540848 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.06.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2009] [Revised: 06/10/2009] [Accepted: 06/15/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), an intermediate filament protein normally found in astrocytes, and the radial glial marker brain fatty acid-binding protein (B-FABP; also known as FABP7) are co-expressed in malignant glioma cell lines and tumors. Nuclear factor I (NFI) recognition sites have been identified in the B-FABP and GFAP promoters, and transcription of both genes is believed to be regulated by NFI. Here, we study the role of the different members of the NFI family in regulating endogenous and ectopic B-FABP and GFAP gene transcription in human malignant glioma cells. We show by gel shifts that all four members of the NFI family (NFIA, NFIB, NFIC, and NFIX) bind to B-FABP and GFAP NFI consensus sites. Over-expression of NFIs, in conjunction with mutation analysis of NFI consensus sites using a reporter gene assay, supports a role for all four NFIs in the regulation of the GFAP and B-FABP genes. Knock-down of single or combined NFIs reveals promoter-dependent and promoter-context-dependent interaction patterns and suggests cross talk between the different members of the NFI family. Our data indicate that the NFI family of transcription factors plays a key role in the regulation of both the B-FABP and GFAP genes in malignant glioma cells.
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- Miranda Brun
- Department of Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
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Wang S, Zhao Y, Leiby MA, Zhu J. Studying human telomerase gene transcription by a chromatinized reporter generated by recombinase-mediated targeting of a bacterial artificial chromosome. Nucleic Acids Res 2009; 37:e111. [PMID: 19528078 PMCID: PMC2761251 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The endogenous human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) gene is repressed in somatic cells. To study the mechanisms of its repression, we developed a strategy of retrovirus-directed Cre recombinase-mediated BAC targeting, or RMBT, to generate single-copy integrations of BAC at pre-engineered chromosomal sites. This technique involved retroviral transduction of acceptor loci, containing an HSV thymidine kinase marker, and subsequent integration of BAC constructs into the acceptor sites, utilizing the loxP and lox511 sites present in the vector backbones. The BAC reporter, with a Renilla luciferase cassette inserted downstream of the hTERT promoter, was retrofitted with a puromycin marker. Through puromycin selection and ganciclovir counter-selection, a targeting efficiency of over 50% was achieved. We demonstrated that the activity and chromatin structures of the hTERT promoter in chromosomally integrated BAC reporter recapitulated its endogenous counterpart of the host cells. Therefore, we have established a genetically amendable platform to study chromatin and epigenetic regulation of the hTERT gene. The highly efficient and versatile RMBT technique has general applicability for studying largely unexplored chromatin-dependent mechanisms of promoter regulation of various genes.
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- Shuwen Wang
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
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Nitzsche A, Paulus C, Nevels M. Temporal dynamics of cytomegalovirus chromatin assembly in productively infected human cells. J Virol 2008; 82:11167-80. [PMID: 18786996 PMCID: PMC2573275 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01218-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2008] [Accepted: 09/02/2008] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The genomes of herpesviruses, including human cytomegalovirus (CMV), are double-stranded DNA molecules maintained as episomes during infection. The viral DNA lacks histones when encapsidated in the virion. However, it has been found histone associated inside infected cells, implying unidentified chromatin assembly mechanisms. Our results indicate that components of the host cell nucleosome deposition machinery target intranuclear CMV DNA, resulting in stepwise viral-chromatin assembly. CMV genomes undergo limited histone association and nucleosome assembly as early as 30 min after infection via DNA replication-independent mechanisms. Low average viral-genome chromatinization is maintained throughout the early stages of infection. The late phase of infection is characterized by a striking increase in average histone occupancy coupled with the process of viral-DNA replication. While the initial chromatinization affected all analyzed parts of the CMV chromosome, a subset of viral genomic regions, including the major immediate-early promoter, proved to be largely resistant to replication-dependent histone deposition. Finally, our results predict the likely requirement for an unanticipated chromatin disassembly process that enables packaging of histone-free DNA into progeny capsids.
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- Alexandra Nitzsche
- Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
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Herpes simplex virus ICP0 promotes both histone removal and acetylation on viral DNA during lytic infection. J Virol 2008; 82:12030-8. [PMID: 18842720 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01575-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
During lytic infection, the genome of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) is associated with limited levels of histones but does not form a regular repeating nucleosomal structure. However, the previous observation that chromatin remodeling factors are recruited into viral replication compartments indicates that chromatin remodeling plays a role in HSV-1 gene expression and DNA replication. In this study we demonstrate the presence of histone H3 on HSV-1 DNA early in infection at levels equivalent to those found on a cellular gene. The proportion of viral DNA associated with histone H3 decreases at later times postinfection, independently of either viral DNA replication or transcription. We demonstrate that an immediate-early protein, infected cell protein 0 (ICP0), is required for both a reduction in the proportion of HSV-1 DNA associating with histone H3 and an increase in histone acetylation. This study provides evidence that ICP0 directly alters the chromatin structure of the HSV-1 genome during lytic infection, and this system will serve as a useful model for the reduction of histone load in higher eukaryotes.
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