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Delgado-Benito V, Rosen DB, Wang Q, Gazumyan A, Pai JA, Oliveira TY, Sundaravinayagam D, Zhang W, Andreani M, Keller L, Kieffer-Kwon KR, Pękowska A, Jung S, Driesner M, Subbotin RI, Casellas R, Chait BT, Nussenzweig MC, Di Virgilio M. The Chromatin Reader ZMYND8 Regulates Igh Enhancers to Promote Immunoglobulin Class Switch Recombination. Mol Cell 2018; 72:636-649.e8. [PMID: 30293785 PMCID: PMC6242708 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.08.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2018] [Revised: 07/01/2018] [Accepted: 08/25/2018] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Class switch recombination (CSR) is a DNA recombination reaction that diversifies the effector component of antibody responses. CSR is initiated by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), which targets transcriptionally active immunoglobulin heavy chain (Igh) switch donor and acceptor DNA. The 3′ Igh super-enhancer, 3′ regulatory region (3′RR), is essential for acceptor region transcription, but how this function is regulated is unknown. Here, we identify the chromatin reader ZMYND8 as an essential regulator of the 3′RR. In B cells, ZMYND8 binds promoters and super-enhancers, including the Igh enhancers. ZMYND8 controls the 3′RR activity by modulating the enhancer transcriptional status. In its absence, there is increased 3′RR polymerase loading and decreased acceptor region transcription and CSR. In addition to CSR, ZMYND8 deficiency impairs somatic hypermutation (SHM) of Igh, which is also dependent on the 3′RR. Thus, ZMYND8 controls Igh diversification in mature B lymphocytes by regulating the activity of the 3′ Igh super-enhancer. ZMYND8 is required for GLT of acceptor S regions and Class Switch Recombination ZMYND8 supports efficient somatic hypermutation of the Igh variable regions ZMYND8 binds B cell super-enhancers, including the 3′ Igh enhancer ZMYND8 modulates the transcriptional status and activity of the 3′ Igh enhancer
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- Verónica Delgado-Benito
- Laboratory of DNA Repair and Maintenance of Genome Stability, The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin 13125, Germany
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- Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of DNA Repair and Maintenance of Genome Stability, The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin 13125, Germany
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- Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of DNA Repair and Maintenance of Genome Stability, The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin 13125, Germany
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- Laboratory of DNA Repair and Maintenance of Genome Stability, The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin 13125, Germany
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- Lymphocyte Nuclear Biology, NIAMS, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of DNA Repair and Maintenance of Genome Stability, The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin 13125, Germany
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- Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Lymphocyte Nuclear Biology, NIAMS, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of DNA Repair and Maintenance of Genome Stability, The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin 13125, Germany.
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Kim D, Schmidt C, Brown MA, Tucker H. Competitive Promoter-Associated Matrix Attachment Region Binding of the Arid3a and Cux1 Transcription Factors. Diseases 2017; 5:diseases5040034. [PMID: 29232859 PMCID: PMC5750545 DOI: 10.3390/diseases5040034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2017] [Revised: 12/05/2017] [Accepted: 12/05/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Arid3a/Bright/Dril1 is a B cell-specific transactivator that regulates immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene transcription by binding promoter and enhancer-associated matrix attachment regions (MARs) within the IgH gene locus. Promoter MAR-mediated Arid3a transactivation is antagonized by direct competition of MAR binding by Cux1/CDP-a ubiquitously expressed repressor originally termed NF-μNR. We report that the NF-μNR complex includes Arid3a in B cells but not in non-B cells through mobility shift assays. The binding activity of NF-μNR and Arid3a in B cells is reciprocally altered during the cell division cycle and by the B cell mitogen lipopolysaccharide LPS. LPS treatment had no effect on Arid3a localization but increased its total abundance within the nucleus and cytoplasm. We show that this increased level of Arid3a is capable of displacing Cux from the MARs to facilitate IgH gene transcription. Finally, we showed that the MARs (termed Bf150 and Tx125) associated with the VH1 rearranged variable region expressed in the S107 murine plasmacytoma, can repress reporter gene transcription in non-B cells and that they can relieve the repression mediated by Eμ enhancer in B cells. These results have significant implications for early human development and demonstrate that MARs in IgH locus, NF-µNR and Arid3a regulate IgH gene expression in a concerted fashion. This paves the way for future studies examining the misregulation of this pathway in pediatric disease.
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- Dongkyoon Kim
- Molecular Biosciences, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78715, USA.
- Atreca, Inc., Redwood City, CA 94063, USA.
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- Molecular Biosciences, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78715, USA.
- Department of Biomaterials and Healthcare, Division of Life Science and Bioprocesses, Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Polymer Research (IAP), 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
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- Molecular Biosciences, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78715, USA.
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Birshtein BK. Epigenetic Regulation of Individual Modules of the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus 3' Regulatory Region. Front Immunol 2014; 5:163. [PMID: 24795714 PMCID: PMC4000994 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2014] [Accepted: 03/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Igh locus undergoes an amazing array of DNA rearrangements and modifications during B cell development. During early stages, the variable region gene is constructed from constituent variable (V), diversity (D), and joining (J) segments (VDJ joining). B cells that successfully express an antibody can be activated, leading to somatic hypermutation (SHM) focused on the variable region, and class switch recombination (CSR), which substitutes downstream constant region genes for the originally used Cμ constant region gene. Many investigators, ourselves included, have sought to understand how these processes specifically target the Igh locus and avoid other loci and potential deleterious consequences of malignant transformation. Our laboratory has concentrated on a complex regulatory region (RR) that is located downstream of Cα, the most 3′ of the Igh constant region genes. The ~40 kb 3′ RR, which is predicted to serve as a downstream major regulator of the Igh locus, contains two distinct segments: an ~28 kb region comprising four enhancers, and an adjacent ~12 kb region containing multiple CTCF and Pax5 binding sites. Analysis of targeted mutations in mice by a number of investigators has concluded that the entire 3′ RR enhancer region is essential for SHM and CSR (but not for VDJ joining) and for high levels of expression of multiple isotypes. The CTCF/Pax5 binding region is a candidate for influencing VDJ joining early in B cell development and serving as a potential insulator of the Igh locus. Components of the 3′ RR are subject to a variety of epigenetic changes during B cell development, i.e., DNAse I hypersensitivity, histone modifications, and DNA methylation, in association with transcription factor binding. I propose that these changes provide a foundation by which regulatory elements in modules of the 3′ RR function by interacting with each other and with target sequences of the Igh locus.
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- Barbara K Birshtein
- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine , Bronx, NY , USA
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Dunnick WA, Shi J, Fontaine C, Collins JT. Transgenes of the mouse immunoglobulin heavy chain locus, lacking distal elements in the 3' regulatory region, are impaired for class switch recombination. PLoS One 2013; 8:e55842. [PMID: 23409061 PMCID: PMC3568100 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2012] [Accepted: 01/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The immunoglobulin heavy (H) chain class switch is mediated by a deletional recombination event between µ and γ, α, or ε constant region genes. This recombination event is upregulated during immune responses by a regulatory region that lies 3′ of the constant region genes. We study switch recombination using a transgene of the entire murine H chain constant region locus. We isolated two lines of mice in which the H chain transgenes were truncated at their 3′ ends. The truncation in both transgenic lines results in deletion of the 3′-most enhancer (HS4) and a region with insulator-like structure and activities. Even though both truncated transgenes express the µ H chain gene well, they undergo very low or undetectable switch recombination to transgenic γ and α constant region genes. For both transgenic lines, germline transcription of some H chain constant regions genes is severely impaired. However, the germline transcription of the γ1 and γ2a genes is at wild type levels for the transgenic line with the larger truncation, but at reduced levels for the transgenic line with the smaller truncation. The dramatic reduction in class switch recombination for all H chain genes and the varied reduction in germline transcription for some H chain genes could be caused by (i) insertion site effects or (ii) deletion of enhancer elements for class switch recombination and transcription, or (iii) a combination of both effects.
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- Wesley A Dunnick
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
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Volpi SA, Verma-Gaur J, Hassan R, Ju Z, Roa S, Chatterjee S, Werling U, Hou H, Will B, Steidl U, Scharff M, Edelman W, Feeney AJ, Birshtein BK. Germline deletion of Igh 3' regulatory region elements hs 5, 6, 7 (hs5-7) affects B cell-specific regulation, rearrangement, and insulation of the Igh locus. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2012; 188:2556-66. [PMID: 22345664 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1102763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Regulatory elements located within an ∼28-kb region 3' of the Igh gene cluster (3' regulatory region) are required for class switch recombination and for high levels of IgH expression in plasma cells. We previously defined novel DNase I hypersensitive sites (hs) 5, 6, 7 immediately downstream of this region. The hs 5-7 region (hs5-7) contains a high density of binding sites for CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF), a zinc finger protein associated with mammalian insulator activity, and is an anchor for interactions with CTCF sites flanking the D(H) region. To test the function of hs5-7, we generated mice with an 8-kb deletion encompassing all three hs elements. B cells from hs5-7 knockout (KO) (hs5-7KO) mice showed a modest increase in expression of the nearest downstream gene. In addition, Igh alleles in hs5-7KO mice were in a less contracted configuration compared with wild-type Igh alleles and showed a 2-fold increase in the usage of proximal V(H)7183 gene families. Hs5-7KO mice were essentially indistinguishable from wild-type mice in B cell development, allelic regulation, class switch recombination, and chromosomal looping. We conclude that hs5-7, a high-density CTCF-binding region at the 3' end of the Igh locus, impacts usage of V(H) regions as far as 500 kb away.
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- Sabrina A Volpi
- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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Dunnick WA, Shi J, Zerbato JM, Fontaine CA, Collins JT. Enhancement of antibody class-switch recombination by the cumulative activity of four separate elements. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2011; 187:4733-43. [PMID: 21949022 PMCID: PMC3197901 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1101808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Class-switch recombination of Ab isotype is mediated by a recombinational DNA deletion event and must be robustly upregulated during Ag-driven differentiation of B cells. The enhancer region 3' of the Cα gene is important for the upregulation of switch recombination. Using a transgene of the entire H chain C region locus, we demonstrate in this study that it is the four 3' enhancer elements themselves (a total of 4.7 kb) that are responsible for the upregulation rather than the 24 kb of DNA in between them. Neither allelic exclusion nor transgenic μ expression is reduced by deletion of the four 3' enhancers. We also test deletions of two or three of the 3' enhancers and show that deletion of more 3' enhancers results in a progressive reduction in both switch recombination and germline transcription of all H chain genes. Nevertheless, we find evidence for special roles for some 3' enhancers; different H chain genes are affected by different 3' enhancer deletions. Thus, we find that the dramatic induction of class-switch recombination during Ag-driven differentiation is the result of an interaction among four separated regulatory elements.
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- Wesley A Dunnick
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Yan Y, Pieretti J, Ju Z, Wei S, Christin JR, Bah F, Birshtein BK, Eckhardt LA. Homologous elements hs3a and hs3b in the 3' regulatory region of the murine immunoglobulin heavy chain (Igh) locus are both dispensable for class-switch recombination. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:27123-31. [PMID: 21673112 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.230995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) genes are formed, tested, and modified to yield diverse, specific, and high affinity antibody responses to antigen. The processes involved must be regulated, however, to avoid unintended damage to chromosomes. The 3' regulatory region of the Igh locus plays a major role in regulating class-switch recombination (CSR), the process by which antibody effector functions are modified during an immune response. Loss of all known enhancer-like elements in this region dramatically impairs CSR, but individual element deletions have no effect on this process. In the present study, we explored the hypothesis that an underlying functional redundancy in the homologous elements hs3a and hs3b was masking the importance of either element to CSR. Several transgenic mouse lines were generated, each carrying a bacterial artificial chromosome transgene that mimicked Igh locus structure but in which hs3a was missing and hs3b was flanked by loxP sites. Matings to Cyclization Recombination Enzyme-expressing mice established "pairs" of lines that differed only in the presence or absence of hs3b. Remarkably, CSR remained robust in the absence of both hs3a and hs3b, suggesting that the remaining two elements of the 3' regulatory region, hs1.2 and hs4, although individually dispensable for CSR, are, together, sufficient to support CSR.
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- Yi Yan
- Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College, New York, New York 10065, USA
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In response to an assault by foreign organisms, peripheral B cells can change their antibody affinity and isotype by somatically mutating their genomic DNA. The ability of a cell to modify its DNA is exceptional in light of the potential consequences of genetic alterations to cause human disease and cancer. Thus, as expected, this mechanism of antibody diversity is tightly regulated and coordinated through one protein, activation-induced deaminase (AID). AID produces diversity by converting cytosine to uracil within the immunoglobulin loci. The deoxyuracil residue is mutagenic when paired with deoxyguanosine, since it mimics thymidine during DNA replication. Additionally, B cells can manipulate the DNA repair pathways so that deoxyuracils are not faithfully repaired. Therefore, an intricate balance exists which is regulated at multiple stages to promote mutation of immunoglobulin genes, while retaining integrity of the rest of the genome. Here we discuss and summarize the current understanding of how AID functions to cause somatic hypermutation.
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- Robert W Maul
- Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Perlot T, Alt FW. Cis-regulatory elements and epigenetic changes control genomic rearrangements of the IgH locus. Adv Immunol 2009; 99:1-32. [PMID: 19117530 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2776(08)00601-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Immunoglobulin variable region exons are assembled from discontinuous variable (V), diversity (D), and joining (J) segments by the process of V(D)J recombination. V(D)J rearrangements of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) locus are tightly controlled in a tissue-specific, ordered and allele-specific manner by regulating accessibility of V, D, and J segments to the recombination activating gene proteins which are the specific components of the V(D)J recombinase. In this review we discuss recent advances and established models brought forward to explain the mechanisms underlying accessibility control of V(D)J recombination, including research on germline transcripts, spatial organization, and chromatin modifications of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) locus. Furthermore, we review the functions of well-described and potential new cis-regulatory elements with regard to processes such as V(D)J recombination, allelic exclusion, and IgH class switch recombination.
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- Thomas Perlot
- The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Children's Hospital, Immune Disease Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Role of defective Oct-2 and OCA-B expression in immunoglobulin production and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus lytic reactivation in primary effusion lymphoma. J Virol 2009; 83:4308-15. [PMID: 19224997 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02196-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) is a distinct type of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma characterized by the presence of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV/human herpesvirus 8). Despite having a genotype and gene expression signature of highly differentiated B cells, PEL does not usually express surface or cytoplasmic immunoglobulin (Ig). We show the lack of Oct-2 and OCA-B transcription factors to be responsible, at least in part, for this defect in Ig production. Like Ig genes, ORF50, the key regulator of the switch from latency to lytic reactivation, contains an octamer motif within its promoter. We therefore examined the impact of Oct-2 and OCA-B on ORF50 activation. The binding of Oct-1 to the ORF50 promoter has been shown to significantly enhance ORF50 transactivation. We found that Oct-2, on the other hand, inhibited ORF50 expression and consequently lytic reactivation by competing with Oct-1 for the octamer motif in the ORF50 promoter. Our data suggest that Oct-2 downregulation in infected cells would be favorable to KSHV in allowing for efficient viral reactivation.
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Dunnick WA, Shi J, Graves KA, Collins JT. The 3' end of the heavy chain constant region locus enhances germline transcription and switch recombination of the four gamma genes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 201:1459-66. [PMID: 15851486 PMCID: PMC2213191 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20041988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The switch in immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain class is preceded by germline transcription and then mediated by a DNA recombination event. To study germline transcription and class switch recombination we used transgenic mice with a 230-kilobase bacterial artificial chromosome that included a rearranged VDJ gene and the entire heavy chain constant region locus. In addition to several lines with intact transgenes, we identified two lines in which the heavy chain locus transgene lacked Cα and everything 3′ of it, including the regulatory elements HS3a, HS1-2, HS3b, and HS4. B cells from both lines with the truncated transgenes make abundant transgenic (Tg) VDJCμ transcripts and IgM protein. Deletion of the 3′ end of the locus results in dramatically reduced expression of both germline transcripts and switched VDJCH transcripts of the γ3, γ2b, γ2a, and ɛ genes. In addition, the transgenes lacking the 3′ end of the locus express reduced amounts of γ1 germline transcripts and 2–3% of the amount of Tg IgG1 in tissue culture compared with intact transgenes. Finally, switch recombination to γ1 is undetectable in the transgenes lacking the 3′ elements, as measured by digestion circularization–polymerase chain reaction or by the expression of VDJCγ1 transcripts.
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- Wesley A Dunnick
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Collins JT, Dunnick WA. Cutting Edge: IFN-γ Regulated Germline Transcripts Are Expressed from γ2a Transgenes Independently of the Heavy Chain 3′ Enhancers. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.163.11.5758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Several results indicate that transcriptional enhancers lying 3′ of the Cα gene regulate RNA expression and switch recombination of heavy chain genes. To investigate this regulation we prepared transgenic mice with a 10.5-kb transgene that included the germline form of the murine γ2α gene, including promoter, I, S, and C regions. RNA was expressed from these γ2a transgenes with correct IFN-γ regulation, in spite of the fact that they lacked the 3′ enhancers. This RNA expression was independent of insertion site and dependent on copy number, indicating that the γ2a gene includes locus control region-like elements. Addition of either a cassette containing 3′ enhancer DNase I hypersensitive sites 1, 2, 3B, and 4 or the intronic μ enhancer increased transcription from the γ2a transgene by ∼75-fold in B cells. However, this increased transcription was not responsive to IFN-γ treatment of the transgenic B cells.
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- John T. Collins
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Chauveau C, Jansson EA, Müller S, Cogné M, Pettersson S. Cutting Edge: Ig Heavy Chain 3′ HS1–4 Directs Correct Spatial Position-Independent Expression of a Linked Transgene to B Lineage Cells. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.163.9.4637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The Ig H chain locus is regulated by a set of cis-acting elements. Hypersensitive sites (HS) located 3′ of the IgH, HS1–4, has been suggested to act as a locus control region (LCR) in cell lines. To assess the proposed role of HS1–4 acting as an LCR, we generated transgenic mice harboring a VH promoter-β-globin reporter gene linked to the Ig H chain HS1–4 3′regulatory sequences. Transgene expression is strictly confined to B lymphocytes, with no detectable expression outside the B cell lineage in all transgenic founder lines. Furthermore, reporter gene activity is integration independent but not copy number dependent. Thus, additional sequences are required to allow the HS1–4 regulatory region to act as a classical LCR in mice. Our data are discussed in the context of tissue-specific gene expression in B lineage cells.
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- Christine Chauveau
- *Laboratoire d’Immunologie Génétique, Faculté de Médecine, Limoges, France; and
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- †Center for Genomics Research, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- *Laboratoire d’Immunologie Génétique, Faculté de Médecine, Limoges, France; and
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- †Center for Genomics Research, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Seidl KJ, Manis JP, Bottaro A, Zhang J, Davidson L, Kisselgof A, Oettgen H, Alt FW. Position-dependent inhibition of class-switch recombination by PGK-neor cassettes inserted into the immunoglobulin heavy chain constant region locus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:3000-5. [PMID: 10077626 PMCID: PMC15884 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.6.3000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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The Ig heavy chain (IgH) constant region (CH) genes are organized from 5' to 3' in the order Cmicro, Cdelta, Cgamma3, Cgamma1, Cgamma2b, Cgamma2a, Cepsilon, and Calpha. Expression of CH genes downstream of Cdelta involves class-switch recombination (CSR), a process that is targeted by germ-line transcription (GT) of the corresponding CH gene. Previously, we demonstrated that insertion of a PGK-neor cassette at two sites downstream of Calpha inhibits, in cultured B cells, GT of and CSR to a subset of CH genes (including Cgamma3, Cgamma2a, Cgamma2b, and Cepsilon) that lie as far as 120 kb upstream. Here we show that insertion of the PGK-neor cassette in place of sequences in the Igamma2b locus inhibits GT of and CSR to the upstream Cgamma3 gene, but has no major effect on the downstream Cgamma2a and Cepsilon genes. Moreover, replacement of the Cepsilon exons with a PGK-neor cassette in the opposite transcriptional orientation also inhibits, in culture, GT of and CSR to the upstream Cgamma3, Cgamma2b, and Cgamma2a genes. As with the PGK-neor insertions 3' of Calpha studied previously, the Cgamma1 and Calpha genes were less affected by these mutations both in culture and in mice, whereas the Cgamma2b gene appeared less affected in vivo. Our findings support the existence of a long-range 3' IgH regulatory region required for GT of and CSR to multiple CH genes and suggest that PGK-neor cassette insertion into the locus short circuits the ability of this region to facilitate GT of dependent CH genes upstream of the insertion.
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- K J Seidl
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Saleque S, Singh M, Birshtein BK. Ig Heavy Chain Expression and Class Switching In Vitro from an Allele Lacking the 3′ Enhancers DNase I-Hypersensitive hs3A and hs1,2. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.162.5.2791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The murine Ig heavy chain (IgH) 3′ regulatory region contains four enhancers: hs3A, hs1,2, hs3B, and hs4. Various studies have suggested a role for these enhancers in regulating IgH expression and class switching. Here we assess the role of hs3A and hs1,2 in these processes by exploiting a naturally occurring deletion of these enhancers from the expressed, C57BL/6 allele of the F1 pre-B cell line, 70Z/3. Equivalent μ expression in 70Z/3 and 18-81 (which has an intact 3′ region) indicated that hs3A and hs1,2 were not essential for μ expression at the pre-B cell stage. To further examine the role of hs3A and hs1,2 in IgH function at the plasma cell stage, we fused 70Z/3 with the plasmacytoma NSO. Electromobility shift assay analysis of the 70Z/3-NSO hybrids revealed a transcription factor complement conducive to the activation of the 3′ enhancers. Despite the lack of enhancers, hs3A and hs1,2, the level of μ RNA and protein in the 70Z/3-NSO fusion hybrids was substantially elevated relative to its pre-B parent and comparable with that observed in a number of μ-producing spleen cell hybridomas. Additionally, ELISAspot assays showed that the 70Z/3-NSO hybrid underwent spontaneous class switching in culture to IgG1 at a frequency comparable with that of most hybridomas. These results indicate that hs3A and hs1,2 are not essential for high levels of IgH expression or for spontaneous class switching in a plasma cell line.
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- Shireen Saleque
- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
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- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
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- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
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Satyaraj E, Storb U. Mef2 Proteins, Required for Muscle Differentiation, Bind an Essential Site in the Ig λ Enhancer. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.161.9.4795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The Ig λ light chain gene enhancer has two unique essential motifs, λA and λB. The transcription factors that bind the λB motif have been identified as Pu.1 and Pu.1-interacting partner (Pip). We report here that the λA site includes a binding site for the myocyte-specific enhancer factor 2 (Mef2) family of transcription factors. Mef2 proteins were first described in muscle cells and, in vertebrates, include four known members designated A to D. Using a λA electrophoretic-mobility shift assay (EMSA), in conjunction with a high affinity Mef2 binding site and anti-Mef2 Abs, we show that members of the Mef2 family are present in nuclear extracts of λ-producing B cells and bind the λA site. Functional assays using the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) reporter construct containing three copies of the λA motif demonstrate that the λA sequence can function as an enhancer in conjunction with the thymidine kinase (TK) promoter and is regulated by Mef2 proteins. Extrapolating from other systems where transcriptional regulation by Mef2 has been studied, other transcription factors may be involved along with Mef2 in transcriptional regulation at the λA site.
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- †Committee on Immunology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637
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Manis JP, van der Stoep N, Tian M, Ferrini R, Davidson L, Bottaro A, Alt FW. Class switching in B cells lacking 3' immunoglobulin heavy chain enhancers. J Exp Med 1998; 188:1421-31. [PMID: 9782119 PMCID: PMC2213411 DOI: 10.1084/jem.188.8.1421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/1998] [Revised: 07/28/1998] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The 40-kb region downstream of the most 3' immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain constant region gene (Calpha) contains a series of transcriptional enhancers speculated to play a role in Ig heavy chain class switch recombination (CSR). To elucidate the function of this putative CSR regulatory region, we generated mice with germline mutations in which one or the other of the two most 5' enhancers in this cluster (respectively referred to as HS3a and HS1,2) were replaced either with a pgk-neor cassette (referred to as HS3aN and HS1,2N mutations) or with a loxP sequence (referred to as HS3aDelta and HS1,2Delta, respectively). B cells homozygous for the HS3aN or HS1,2N mutations had severe defects in CSR to several isotypes. The phenotypic similarity of the two insertion mutations, both of which were cis-acting, suggested that inhibition might result from pgk-neor cassette gene insertion rather than enhancer deletion. Accordingly, CSR returned to normal in B cells homozygous for the HS3aDelta or HS1,2Delta mutations. In addition, induced expression of the specifically targeted pgk-neor genes was regulated similarly to that of germline CH genes. Our findings implicate a 3' CSR regulatory locus that appears remarkably similar in organization and function to the beta-globin gene 5' LCR and which we propose may regulate differential CSR via a promoter competition mechanism.
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- J P Manis
- The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Muto A, Hoshino H, Madisen L, Yanai N, Obinata M, Karasuyama H, Hayashi N, Nakauchi H, Yamamoto M, Groudine M, Igarashi K. Identification of Bach2 as a B-cell-specific partner for small maf proteins that negatively regulate the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene 3' enhancer. EMBO J 1998; 17:5734-43. [PMID: 9755173 PMCID: PMC1170901 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.19.5734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Maf family transcription factors are important regulators in various differentiation systems. Putative Maf recognition elements (MAREs) are found in the 3' enhancer region of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene. These elements are bound in B-cell extracts by a heterodimeric protein complex containing both Bach2 and a small Maf protein. Analysis of normal hematopoietic cells revealed that Bach2 is specifically expressed in B cells. Bach2 is abundantly expressed in the early stages of B-cell differentiation and turned off in terminally differentiated cells. Bach2 acts together with MafK as a negative effector of the IgH 3' enhancer and binds to the co-repressor SMRT (silencing mediator of retinoid and thyroid receptor). Hence the Bach2-small-Maf heterodimer may represent the first example of a B-cell lineage, and of a developmental stage-restricted negative effector of the MARE in the IgH 3' enhancer region.
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- A Muto
- Department of Biochemistry, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575, USA
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Ong J, Stevens S, Roeder RG, Eckhardt LA. 3′ IgH Enhancer Elements Shift Synergistic Interactions During B Cell Development. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.160.10.4896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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IgH gene expression is tightly controlled over the course of B cell development, B cell activation, and the subsequent differentiation of these cells into Ig-secreting plasmacytes. There are several transcriptional enhancers that map within and downstream of the IgH locus, and some of these have been clearly implicated in the developmental regulation of IgH gene assembly and expression. While some of the individual enhancers from this locus have been studied extensively, the functional interactions possible among this group of enhancers have been largely unexplored. In the present study, we have measured the transcriptional activities of combinations of enhancers introduced into B-lineage cell lines at several different developmental stages. We detected a developmental progression in which the 3′ enhancers are initially inactive, then become strongly active through synergistic interactions, and finally achieve a strong level of activity with little interdependency. The relative contributions of Eμ (the intron enhancer) and of the 3′ enhancers also change as a function of developmental stage. We discuss these results in light of parallel studies of developmental changes in transcription factor requirements.
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- Jane Ong
- *Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10021; and
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- †Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021
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- †Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021
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- *Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10021; and
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Michaelson JS, Ermakova O, Birshtein BK, Ashouian N, Chevillard C, Riblet R, Schildkraut CL. Regulation of the replication of the murine immunoglobulin heavy chain gene locus: evaluation of the role of the 3' regulatory region. Mol Cell Biol 1997; 17:6167-74. [PMID: 9315677 PMCID: PMC232467 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.17.10.6167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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DNA replication in mammalian cells is a precisely controlled physical and temporal process, likely involving cis-acting elements that control the region(s) from which replication initiates. In B cells, previous studies showed replication timing to be early throughout the immunoglobulin heavy chain (Igh) locus. The implication from replication timing studies in the B-cell line MPC11 was that early replication of the Igh locus was regulated by sequences downstream of the C alpha gene. A potential candidate for these replication control sequences was the 3' regulatory region of the Igh locus. Our results demonstrate, however, that the Igh locus maintains early replication in a B-cell line in which the 3' regulatory region has been deleted from one allele, thus indicating that replication timing of the locus is independent of this region. In non-B cells (murine erythroleukemia cells [MEL]), previous studies of segments within the mouse Igh locus demonstrated that DNA replication likely initiated downstream of the Igh gene cluster. Here we use recently cloned DNA to demonstrate that segments located sequentially downstream of the Igh 3' regulatory region continue to replicate progressively earlier in S phase in MEL. Furthermore, analysis by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis indicates that replication forks proceed exclusively in the 3'-to-5' direction through the region 3' of the Igh locus. Extrapolation from these data predicts that initiation of DNA replication occurs in MEL at one or more sites within a 90-kb interval located between 40 and 130 kb downstream of the 3' regulatory region.
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- J S Michaelson
- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Mills FC, Harindranath N, Mitchell M, Max EE. Enhancer complexes located downstream of both human immunoglobulin Calpha genes. J Exp Med 1997; 186:845-58. [PMID: 9294139 PMCID: PMC2199054 DOI: 10.1084/jem.186.6.845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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To investigate regulation of human immunoglobulin heavy chain expression, we have cloned DNA downstream from the two human Calpha genes, corresponding to the position in the mouse IgH cluster of a locus control region (LCR) that includes an enhancer which regulates isotype switching. Within 25 kb downstream of both the human immunoglobulin Calpha1 and Calpha2 genes we identified several segments of DNA which display B lymphoid-specific DNase I hypersensitivity as well as enhancer activity in transient transfections. The corresponding sequences downstream from each of the two human Calpha genes are nearly identical to each other. These enhancers are also homologous to three regions which lie in similar positions downstream from the murine Calpha gene and form the murine LCR. The strongest enhancers in both mouse and human have been designated HS12. Within a 135-bp core homology region, the human HS12 enhancers are approximately 90% identical to the murine homolog and include several motifs previously demonstrated to be important for function of the murine enhancer; additional segments of high sequence conservation suggest the possibility of previously unrecognized functional motifs. On the other hand, certain functional elements in the murine enhancer, including a B cell-specific activator protein site, do not appear to be conserved in human HS12. The human homologs of the murine enhancers designated HS3 and HS4 show lower overall sequence conservation, but for at least two of the functional motifs in the murine HS4 (a kappaB site and an octamer motif ) the human HS4 homologs are exactly conserved. An additional hypersensitivity site between human HS3 and HS12 in each human locus displays no enhancer activity on its own, but includes a region of high sequence conservation with mouse, suggesting the possibility of another novel functional element.
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- F C Mills
- Laboratory of Cell and Viral Regulation, Division of Hematologic Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
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Singh M, Birshtein BK. Concerted repression of an immunoglobulin heavy-chain enhancer, 3' alpha E(hs1,2). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1996; 93:4392-7. [PMID: 8633077 PMCID: PMC39548 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.9.4392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The transcription factor, B-cell-specific activator protein (BSAP), represses the murine immunoglobulin heavy-chain 3' enhancer 3' alpha E(hs1,2) in B cells. Analysis of various 3'alpha E deletional constructs indicates that sequences flanking a and b BSAP-binding sites are essential for appropriate regulation of the enhancer. An octamer motif 5' of the a site and a specific G-rich motif 3' of the b site were identified by competition in electrophoretic mobility-shift assays and methylation-interference foot-printing analysis. Site-directed mutagenesis of either the octamer or G-rich sites resulted in the complete release of repression of 3' alpha E(hs1,2), implicating these two motifs in the repression of this enhancer in B cells. However, when both BSAP-binding sites were mutated, the octamer and G-rich motifs functioned as activators. Moreover, in plasma cells, when BSAP is not expressed, 3' alpha E(hs1,2) is active, and its activity depends on the presence of the other two factors. These results suggest that in B cells, 3' alpha E (hs1,2) is down-regulated by the concerted actions of BSAP, octamer, and G-rich DNA-binding proteins. Supporting this notion of concerted repression, a physical interaction between BSAP and octamer-binding proteins was demonstrated using glutathione S-transferase fusion proteins. Thus, concerted repression of 3' alpha E (hs1,2) in B cells provides a sensitive mechanism by which this enhancer, either individually or as part of a locus-controlling region, is highly responsive to any of several participating factors.
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- M Singh
- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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Neurath MF, Max EE, Strober W. Pax5 (BSAP) regulates the murine immunoglobulin 3' alpha enhancer by suppressing binding of NF-alpha P, a protein that controls heavy chain transcription. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995; 92:5336-40. [PMID: 7777508 PMCID: PMC41689 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.12.5336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The Pax5 transcription factor BSAP (B-cell-specific activator protein) is known to bind to and repress the activity of the immunoglobulin heavy chain 3' alpha enhancer. We have detected an element--designated alpha P--that lies approximately 50 bp downstream of the BSAP binding site 1 and is required for maximal enhancer activity. In vitro binding experiments suggest that the 40-kDa protein that binds to this element (NF-alpha P) is a member of the Ets family present in both B-cell and plasma-cell nuclei. However, in vivo footprint analysis suggests that the alpha P site is occupied only in plasma cells, whereas the BSAP site is occupied in B cells but not in plasma cells. When Pax5 binding to the enhancer in B cells was blocked in vivo by transfection with a triple-helix-forming oligonucleotide an alpha P footprint appeared and endogenous immunoglobulin heavy chain transcripts increased. The triple-helix-forming oligonucleotide also increased enhancer activity of a transfected construct in B cells, but only when the alpha P site was intact. Pax5 thus regulates the 3' alpha enhancer and immunoglobulin gene transcription by blocking activation by NF-alpha P.
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- M F Neurath
- Mucosal Immunity Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1890, USA
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Michaelson JS, Giannini SL, Birshtein BK. Identification of 3' alpha-hs4, a novel Ig heavy chain enhancer element regulated at multiple stages of B cell differentiation. Nucleic Acids Res 1995; 23:975-81. [PMID: 7731812 PMCID: PMC306794 DOI: 10.1093/nar/23.6.975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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In addition to E mu, several elements downstream of the IgH cluster, i.e. 3' of the C alpha gene, are involved in regulating IgH gene rearrangement and expression. This entire downstream regulatory region was shown to be deleted in the mutant myeloma cell line, LP1.2. The deletion encompasses approximately 34 kb and is presumably responsible for the reduced levels of IgH expression in this cell line. An additional regulatory element, included in the LP1.2 deletion, was identified by investigation of a DNase I hypersensitivity site located approximately 33 kb downstream of the alpha gene and present in pre-B and plasma cells. This novel IgH gene enhancer element, termed 3' alpha-hs4, is capable of activity throughout B cell development. Transient transfection of 3' alpha-hs4 in a CAT reporter gene construct shows transcriptional enhancement activity approximating that of E mu in S194 plasmacytoma and M12.4.1 and A-20 B cell lines; while in a pre-B cell line, 18-81, the average activity is 25% that of E mu. Enhancer activity was localized to an 800 bp fragment. The activity of 3' alpha-hs4 is orientation independent and appears to be B cell specific. Tight regulation of 3' alpha-hs4 is inferred from its variable activity in different plasmacytoma cell lines and within the pre B cell line, 18-81.
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- J S Michaelson
- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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Fulton R, van Ness B. Selective synergy of immunoglobulin enhancer elements in B-cell development: a characteristic of kappa light chain enhancers, but not heavy chain enhancers. Nucleic Acids Res 1994; 22:4216-23. [PMID: 7937148 PMCID: PMC331925 DOI: 10.1093/nar/22.20.4216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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We have examined the interactions of the enhancers of the kappa immunoglobulin light chain gene as well as the interactions of the intron, mu, and 3' alpha enhancers of the heavy chain locus in mouse. We have observed that each of the kappa enhancers is very weak in comparison with the heavy chain intron enhancer. The mouse heavy chain 3' alpha enhancer is relatively weak as well. However, two kappa enhancers together synergistically activate transcription of a luciferase reporter gene to a level that is roughly equivalent to the heavy chain mu enhancer. Additionally, dimerization of either kappa enhancer results in synergistic increases in transcription. This property of synergism appears to be confined to the enhancers of the kappa locus, as addition of the 3' alpha E to mu E containing constructs increases transcription only modestly, and neither heavy chain enhancer synergizes when dimerized. We have gone on to characterize some of the minimal requirements for synergism between the kappa enhancers and find that the KB and E2 sites are required, but not the E3 site. The implications of these results for the coordinate regulation of the heavy and light chain transcription are discussed.
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- R Fulton
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455
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PU.1 is a component of a multiprotein complex which binds an essential site in the murine immunoglobulin lambda 2-4 enhancer. Mol Cell Biol 1993. [PMID: 8413244 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.10.6452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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B-cell-specific enhancers have been identified in the immunoglobulin lambda locus 3' of each constant-region cluster. These enhancers contain two distinct domains, lambda A and lambda B, which are essential for enhancer function. lambda B contains a near-consensus binding site for the Ets family of transcription factors. In this study, we have identified a B-cell-specific protein complex which binds the lambda B motif of the lambda 2-4 enhancer in vitro and appears necessary for the activity of the enhancer in vivo, since mutations in lambda B which prevent this interaction also eliminate enhancer function. This complex contains PU.1, a member of the Ets family, and a transcriptional activator whose expression is restricted to cells of the hematopoietic system with the exception of T lymphocytes. In addition, it contains a factor which binds specifically to a region adjacent to the PU.1 binding site. This factor cannot bind lambda B autonomously but appears to require interaction with the PU.1 protein to stabilize its association with the DNA. This complex may be identical or related to the PU.1/NF-EM5 complex which interacts with a homologous DNA element in the immunoglobulin kappa 3' enhancer.
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Eisenbeis CF, Singh H, Storb U. PU.1 is a component of a multiprotein complex which binds an essential site in the murine immunoglobulin lambda 2-4 enhancer. Mol Cell Biol 1993; 13:6452-61. [PMID: 8413244 PMCID: PMC364704 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.10.6452-6461.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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B-cell-specific enhancers have been identified in the immunoglobulin lambda locus 3' of each constant-region cluster. These enhancers contain two distinct domains, lambda A and lambda B, which are essential for enhancer function. lambda B contains a near-consensus binding site for the Ets family of transcription factors. In this study, we have identified a B-cell-specific protein complex which binds the lambda B motif of the lambda 2-4 enhancer in vitro and appears necessary for the activity of the enhancer in vivo, since mutations in lambda B which prevent this interaction also eliminate enhancer function. This complex contains PU.1, a member of the Ets family, and a transcriptional activator whose expression is restricted to cells of the hematopoietic system with the exception of T lymphocytes. In addition, it contains a factor which binds specifically to a region adjacent to the PU.1 binding site. This factor cannot bind lambda B autonomously but appears to require interaction with the PU.1 protein to stabilize its association with the DNA. This complex may be identical or related to the PU.1/NF-EM5 complex which interacts with a homologous DNA element in the immunoglobulin kappa 3' enhancer.
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- C F Eisenbeis
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637
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NF-HB (BSAP) is a repressor of the murine immunoglobulin heavy-chain 3' alpha enhancer at early stages of B-cell differentiation. Mol Cell Biol 1993. [PMID: 8497273 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.6.3611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have identified a nuclear factor expressed in pro-B-, pre-B-, and B-cell lines that binds to two sites within the murine immunoglobulin heavy-chain (IgH) 3' alpha enhancer (3' alpha E). These sites were defined by oligonucleotide competition in an electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) and methylation interference footprinting. The 3' alpha E-binding factor is indistinguishable from NF-HB (B-lineage-specific nuclear factor that binds to the IgH gene) and the B-lineage-specific transcription factor BSAP by several criteria, including similar cell type distribution of binding activity, cross-competition of binding sites in EMSA, similar protein size as demonstrated by UV cross-linking, and sequence identity of one of the 3' alpha E-binding sites with a BSAP-binding site within the promoter of the sea urchin late histone gene H2A-2.2. These observations indicate that 3' alpha E is one of the mammalian targets for NF-HB (BSAP). Transient-transfection assays with chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene constructs containing 3' alpha E and mutant 3' alpha E, in which one of the NF-HB binding sites was inactivated by site-specific mutagenesis, showed ca. five- to sixfold-enhanced activity of mutated 3' alpha E over parental 3' alpha E in B-cell lines (NF-HB+), while no significant difference was observed in plasmacytoma cells (NF-HB-). We conclude from these observations that NF-HB (BSAP) acts as a repressor of the mouse IgH 3' alpha E.
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Singh M, Birshtein BK. NF-HB (BSAP) is a repressor of the murine immunoglobulin heavy-chain 3' alpha enhancer at early stages of B-cell differentiation. Mol Cell Biol 1993; 13:3611-22. [PMID: 8497273 PMCID: PMC359830 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.6.3611-3622.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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We have identified a nuclear factor expressed in pro-B-, pre-B-, and B-cell lines that binds to two sites within the murine immunoglobulin heavy-chain (IgH) 3' alpha enhancer (3' alpha E). These sites were defined by oligonucleotide competition in an electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) and methylation interference footprinting. The 3' alpha E-binding factor is indistinguishable from NF-HB (B-lineage-specific nuclear factor that binds to the IgH gene) and the B-lineage-specific transcription factor BSAP by several criteria, including similar cell type distribution of binding activity, cross-competition of binding sites in EMSA, similar protein size as demonstrated by UV cross-linking, and sequence identity of one of the 3' alpha E-binding sites with a BSAP-binding site within the promoter of the sea urchin late histone gene H2A-2.2. These observations indicate that 3' alpha E is one of the mammalian targets for NF-HB (BSAP). Transient-transfection assays with chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene constructs containing 3' alpha E and mutant 3' alpha E, in which one of the NF-HB binding sites was inactivated by site-specific mutagenesis, showed ca. five- to sixfold-enhanced activity of mutated 3' alpha E over parental 3' alpha E in B-cell lines (NF-HB+), while no significant difference was observed in plasmacytoma cells (NF-HB-). We conclude from these observations that NF-HB (BSAP) acts as a repressor of the mouse IgH 3' alpha E.
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- M Singh
- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461
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