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He Z, Song D, van Zalen S, Russell JE. Structural determinants of human ζ-globin mRNA stability. J Hematol Oncol 2014; 7:35. [PMID: 24751163 PMCID: PMC3998057 DOI: 10.1186/1756-8722-7-35] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2014] [Accepted: 04/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Background The normal accumulation of adult α and β globins in definitive erythrocytes is critically dependent upon processes that ensure that the cognate mRNAs are maintained at high levels in transcriptionally silent, but translationally active progenitor cells. The impact of these post-transcriptional regulatory events on the expression of embryonic ζ globin is not known, as its encoding mRNA is not normally transcribed during adult erythropoiesis. Recently, though, ζ globin has been recognized as a potential therapeutic for α thalassemia and sickle-cell disease, raising practical questions about constitutive post-transcriptional processes that may enhance, or possibly prohibit, the expression of exogenous or derepresssed endogenous ζ-globin genes in definitive erythroid progenitors. Methods The present study assesses mRNA half-life in intact cells using a pulse-chase approach; identifies cis-acting determinants of ζ-globin mRNA stability using a saturation mutagenesis strategy; establishes critical 3′UTR secondary structures using an in vitro enzymatic mapping method; and identifies trans-acting effector factors using an affinity chromatographical procedure. Results We specify a tetranucleotide 3′UTR motif that is required for the high-level accumulation of ζ-globin transcripts in cultured cells, and formally demonstrate that it prolongs their cytoplasmic half-lives. Surprisingly, the ζ-globin mRNA stability motif does not function autonomously, predicting an activity that is subject to structural constraints that we subsequently specify. Additional studies demonstrate that the ζ-globin mRNA stability motif is targeted by AUF1, a ubiquitous RNA-binding protein that enhances the half-life of adult β-globin mRNA, suggesting commonalities in post-transcriptional processes that regulate globin transcripts at all stages of mammalian development. Conclusions These data demonstrate a mechanism for ζ-globin mRNA stability that exists in definitive erythropoiesis and is available for therapeutic manipulation in α thalassemia and sickle-cell disease.
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- Department of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Biomedical Research Building, Room 808, 421 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Chen RL, Chou YC, Lan YJ, Huang TS, Shen CKJ. Developmental silencing of human zeta-globin gene expression is mediated by the transcriptional repressor RREB1. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:10189-97. [PMID: 20133935 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.049130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The mammalian embryonic zeta-globin genes, including that of humans, are expressed at the early embryonic stage and then switched off during erythroid development. This autonomous silencing of the zeta-globin gene transcription is probably regulated by the cooperative work of various protein-DNA and protein-protein complexes formed at the zeta-globin promoter and its upstream enhancer (HS-40). We present data here indicating that a protein-binding motif, ZF2, contributes to the repression of the HS-40-regulated human zeta-promoter activity in erythroid cell lines and in transgenic mice. Combined site-directed mutagenesis and EMSA suggest that repression of the human zeta-globin promoter is mediated through binding of the zinc finger factor RREB1 to ZF2. This model is further supported by the observation that human zeta-globin gene transcription is elevated in the human erythroid K562 cell line or the primary erythroid culture upon RNA interference (RNAi)(2) knockdown of RREB1 expression. These data together suggest that RREB1 is a putative repressor for the silencing of the mammalian zeta-globin genes during erythroid development. Because zeta-globin is a powerful inhibitor of HbS polymerization, our experiments have provided a foundation for therapeutic up-regulation of zeta-globin gene expression in patients with severe hemoglobinopathies.
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- Ruei-Lin Chen
- Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 11221, Taiwan
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Reprogramming erythroid cells for lysosomal enzyme production leads to visceral and CNS cross-correction in mice with Hurler syndrome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:19958-63. [PMID: 19903883 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908528106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Restricting transgene expression to maturing erythroid cells can reduce the risk for activating oncogenes in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and their progeny, yet take advantage of their robust protein synthesis machinery for high-level protein production. This study sought to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of reprogramming erythroid cells for production of a lysosomal enzyme, alpha-L-iduronidase (IDUA). An erythroid-specific hybrid promoter provided inducible IDUA expression and release during in vitro erythroid differentiation in murine erythroleukemia cells, resulting in phenotypical cross-correction in an enzyme-deficient lymphoblastoid cell line derived from patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I). Stable and higher than normal plasma IDUA levels were achieved in vivo in primary and secondary MPS I chimeras for at least 9 months after transplantation of HSCs transduced with the erythroid-specific IDUA-containing lentiviral vector (LV). Moreover, long-term metabolic correction was demonstrated by normalized urinary glycosaminoglycan accumulation in all treated MPS I mice. Complete normalization of tissue pathology was observed in heart, liver, and spleen. Notably, neurological function and brain pathology were significantly improved in MPS I mice by erythroid-derived, higher than normal peripheral IDUA protein. These data demonstrate that late-stage erythroid cells, transduced with a tissue-specific LV, can deliver a lysosomal enzyme continuously at supraphysiological levels to the bloodstream and can correct the disease phenotype in both viscera and CNS of MPS I mice. This approach provides a paradigm for the utilization of RBC precursors as a depot for efficient and potentially safer systemic delivery of nonsecreted proteins by ex vivo HSC gene transfer.
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Mohamedali A, Moreau-Gaudry F, Richard E, Xia P, Nolta J, Malik P. Self-inactivating lentiviral vectors resist proviral methylation but do not confer position-independent expression in hematopoietic stem cells. Mol Ther 2005; 10:249-59. [PMID: 15294172 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2004.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2003] [Accepted: 05/02/2004] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Oncoretroviral expression is transcriptionally silenced in embryonic and hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). This is associated with methylation of viral and internal promoters. We determined whether self-inactivating (SIN) lentiviral vectors (LV) would circumvent proviral silencing in HSCs. We studied long-term expression, methylation, and position effects (PE) from two GFP-encoding SIN-LV containing erythroid enhancers and the human ankyrin-1 promoter (h-Ank-P) using the murine secondary bone marrow (BM) transplant assay. Proviral expression was detected in RBC 6-11 months following transplant only in 28 of 49 secondary mice, with 0.9 +/- 0.2 copy/cell and oligoclonally integrated provirus in BM, spleen, and thymus. Twenty-one of 49 secondary mice lacked integrated provirus. Secondary mice containing provirus also had GFP-expressing RBCs, although proviral copy number did not always correlate with expression, suggesting either proviral methylation or chromatin PE. The endogenous h-Ank-P was partially methylated in nonerythroid cell lines and unmethylated in erythroid cell lines. However, h-Ank-P in the provirus was unmethylated in erythroid and nonerythroid cells within secondary murine BM. Despite lack of methylation, GFP expression was variable in secondary BFU-e and in single-copy mouse erythroleukemia cell clones. Taken together, these data show that erythroid-specific SIN-LV express long term and resist methylation-associated proviral silencing, but may require additional elements to confer position-independent expression.
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- Azim Mohamedali
- Division of Hematology-Oncology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles and University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 90027, USA
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Li Q, Emery DW, Han H, Sun J, Yu M, Stamatoyannopoulos G. Differences of globin transgene expression in stably transfected cell lines and transgenic mice. Blood 2004; 105:3346-52. [PMID: 15626741 PMCID: PMC2808413 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-03-0987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Previous studies demonstrated that DNase I hypersensitive site -40 (HS-40) of the alpha-globin locus is capable of greatly enhancing expression of a hybrid beta/gamma-globin transcriptional unit in plasmid-transfected murine erythroleukemia (MEL) cells. However, as reported here, this same gamma-globin gene expression cassette was only transcribed at trace amounts in erythroid cells of transgenic mice. This lack of expression was not directly attributable to the beta/gamma-globin transcriptional unit, since this same unit linked to a composite beta-globin locus control region was expressed at high levels in transgenic mice. This lack of expression was also not directly attributable to chromosomal position effects, since addition of chromatin insulators failed to increase the frequency of expression. DNase I hypersensitivity and chromatin immunoprecipitation assays demonstrated that the lack of expression was correlated with a closed chromatin structure. We hypothesize that transgenes undergo dynamic changes in chromatin conformation following chromosomal integration and that the discrepant results reported here can be attributed to the relatively high level of chromatin remodeling that occurs in the transgenic mouse model, coupled with the relative inability of the HS-40 element to maintain an open chromatin state under such conditions.
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- Qiliang Li
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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He Z, Russell JE. Antisickling effects of an endogenous human α-like globin. Nat Med 2004; 10:365-7. [PMID: 15034572 DOI: 10.1038/nm1022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2003] [Accepted: 03/03/2004] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Gene replacement or gene reactivation therapies for sickle-cell disease (SCD) typically target the mutant beta(S)-globin subunits of hemoglobin-S (alpha(2)beta(S)(2)) for substitution by nonpathological beta-like globins. Here we show, in vitro and in vivo in a transgenic mouse model of SCD, that the adverse properties of hemoglobin-S can be reversed by exchanging its normal alpha-globin subunits for zeta-globin, an endogenous, developmentally silenced, non-beta-like globin.
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- Zhenning He
- Department of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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The alpha-globin gene cluster is located at the very tip of the short arm of chromosome 16. It produces the alpha-like globins, which is combined with the beta-like globins to form hemoglobin, and its mutants cause alpha-thalassemia, which is one of the most common genetic diseases. Its expression shows a tissue and developmental stage specificity that is balanced with that of the beta-globin gene cluster. In this article, we summarize the research on the control of expression of the alpha-globin gene cluster, mainly with respect to the alpha-major regulatory element (alpha-MRE): HS-40, the tissue-specific and developmental control of its expression, and its chromosomal environment. In summary, the alpha-globin gene cluster is expressed in an open chromosomal environment; HS-40, the 5'-flanking sequence, the transcribed region, and the 3'-flanking sequence interact to fully regulate its expression.
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- Hua-bing Zhang
- National Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, P. R. China
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In order to provide the appropriate level of oxygen transport to respiring tissues, we need to produce a molecular oxygen transporting system to supplement oxygen diffusion and solubility. This supplementation is provided by hemoglobin. The role of hemoglobin in providing oxygen transport from lung to tissues in the adult is well-documented and functional characteristics of the fetal hemoglobin, which provide placental oxygen exchange, are also well understood. However the characteristics of the three embryonic hemoglobins, which provide oxygen transport during the first three months of gestation, are not well recognized. This review seeks to describe the state of our understanding of the temporal control of the expression of these proteins and the oxygen binding characteristics of the individual protein molecules. The modulation of the oxygen binding properties of these proteins, by the various allosteric effectors, is described and the structural origins of these characteristics are probed.
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- Thomas Brittain
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Gavva NR, Wen SC, Daftari P, Moniwa M, Yang WM, Yang-Feng LPT, Seto E, Davie JR, Shen CKJ. NAPP2, a peroxisomal membrane protein, is also a transcriptional corepressor. Genomics 2002; 79:423-31. [PMID: 11863372 DOI: 10.1006/geno.2002.6714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Nuclear factor-erythroid number 2 (NF-E2) is a positive regulatory, DNA binding transcription factor for gene expression in erythroid and megakaryocytic cells. To further understand the mechanisms of NF-E2 function, we used expression cloning to identify coregulators interacting with the erythroid-specific subunit of NF-E2, p45. We have isolated a protein, NAPP2, which contains an aspartic-acid- and glutamic-acid-rich region and a nuclear localization signal. The gene encoding NAPP2, PEX14, is located on chromosome 1p36 and is ubiquitously expressed. The domains of interaction in vitro and in vivo between p45 and NAPP2 were mapped by a yeast two-hybrid system and cotransfection experiments. In mammalian cell culture, ectopically expressed NAPP2 inhibited p45-directed transcriptional activation. Furthermore, NAPP2 functions as a corepressor and interacts specifically with histone deacetylase l (HDAC1), but not HDAC2 or HDAC3. NAPP2 is thus potentially a negative coregulator of NF-E2. NAPP2 is identical to PEX14, an integral membrane protein essential for protein docking onto the peroxisomes. These studies have identified a novel, bifunctional protein capable of acting as a transcriptional corepressor and a polypeptide transport modulator. They also suggest that NF-E2 may function both positively and negatively in the transcription regulation of specific erythroid and megakaryocytic genes.
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- Narender R Gavva
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Moreau-Gaudry F, Xia P, Jiang G, Perelman NP, Bauer G, Ellis J, Surinya KH, Mavilio F, Shen CK, Malik P. High-level erythroid-specific gene expression in primary human and murine hematopoietic cells with self-inactivating lentiviral vectors. Blood 2001; 98:2664-72. [PMID: 11675336 DOI: 10.1182/blood.v98.9.2664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Use of oncoretroviral vectors in gene therapy for hemoglobinopathies has been impeded by low titer vectors, genetic instability, and poor expression. Fifteen self- inactivating (SIN) lentiviral vectors using 4 erythroid promoters in combination with 4 erythroid enhancers with or without the woodchuck hepatitis virus postregulatory element (WPRE) were generated using the enhanced green fluorescent protein as a reporter gene. Vectors with high erythroid-specific expression in cell lines were tested in primary human CD34(+) cells and in vivo in the murine bone marrow (BM) transplantation model. Vectors containing the ankyrin-1 promoter showed high-level expression and stable proviral transmission. Two vectors containing the ankyrin-1 promoter and 2 erythroid enhancers (HS-40 plus GATA-1 or HS-40 plus 5-aminolevulinate synthase intron 8 [I8] enhancers) and WPRE expressed at levels higher than the HS2/beta-promoter vector in bulk unilineage erythroid cultures and individual erythroid blast-forming units derived from human BM CD34(+) cells. Sca1(+)/lineage(-) Ly5.1 mouse hematopoietic cells, transduced with these 2 ankyrin-1 promoter vectors, were injected into lethally irradiated Ly5.2 recipients. Eleven weeks after transplantation, high-level expression was seen from both vectors in blood (63%-89% of red blood cells) and erythroid cells in BM (70%-86% engraftment), compared with negligible expression in myeloid and lymphoid lineages in blood, BM, spleen, and thymus (0%-4%). The I8/HS-40-containing vector encoding a hybrid human beta/gamma-globin gene led to 43% to 113% human gamma-globin expression/copy of the mouse alpha-globin gene. Thus, modular use of erythroid-specific enhancers/promoters and WPRE in SIN-lentiviral vectors led to identification of high-titer, stably transmitted vectors with high-level erythroid-specific expression for gene therapy of red cell diseases.
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- F Moreau-Gaudry
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90027, USA
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Richard E, Mendez M, Mazurier F, Morel C, Costet P, Xia P, Fontanellas A, Geronimi F, Cario-André M, Taine L, Ged C, Malik P, de Verneuil H, Moreau-Gaudry F. Gene therapy of a mouse model of protoporphyria with a self-inactivating erythroid-specific lentiviral vector without preselection. Mol Ther 2001; 4:331-8. [PMID: 11592836 DOI: 10.1006/mthe.2001.0467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Successful treatment of blood disorders by gene therapy has several complications, one of which is the frequent lack of selective advantage of genetically corrected cells. Erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP), caused by a ferrochelatase deficiency, is a good model of hematological genetic disorders with a lack of spontaneous in vivo selection. This disease is characterized by accumulation of protoporphyrin in red blood cells, bone marrow, and other organs, resulting in severe skin photosensitivity. Here we develop a self-inactivating lentiviral vector containing human ferrochelatase cDNA driven by the human ankyrin-1/beta-globin HS-40 chimeric erythroid promoter/enhancer. We collected bone marrow cells from EPP male donor mice for lentiviral transduction and injected them into lethally irradiated female EPP recipient mice. We observed a high transduction efficiency of hematopoietic stem cells resulting in effective gene therapy of primary and secondary recipient EPP mice without any selectable system. Skin photosensitivity was corrected for all secondary engrafted mice and was associated with specific ferrochelatase expression in the erythroid lineage. An erythroid-specific expression was sufficient to reverse most of the clinical and biological manifestations of the disease. This improvement in the efficiency of gene transfer with lentiviruses may contribute to the development of successful clinical protocols for erythropoietic diseases.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Southern
- Bone Marrow Cells/metabolism
- Bone Marrow Transplantation
- Cell Line
- Disease Models, Animal
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic/genetics
- Female
- Ferrochelatase/genetics
- Ferrochelatase/metabolism
- Ferrochelatase/therapeutic use
- Gene Expression/genetics
- Genetic Therapy/methods
- Genetic Vectors/genetics
- Humans
- Lentivirus/genetics
- Lentivirus/physiology
- Male
- Mice
- Organ Specificity
- Porphyria, Hepatoerythropoietic/enzymology
- Porphyria, Hepatoerythropoietic/genetics
- Porphyria, Hepatoerythropoietic/pathology
- Porphyria, Hepatoerythropoietic/therapy
- Porphyrins/metabolism
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
- Protoporphyria, Erythropoietic
- Skin/pathology
- Transduction, Genetic
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- E Richard
- Laboratoire de Pathologie Moléculaire et Thérapie Génique EA 484, Université V. Segalen, 146 rue Léo Saignat, 33076 Bordeaux, France
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Espéret C, Sabatier S, Deville MA, Ouazana R, Bouhassira EE, Godet J, Morlé F, Bernet A. Non-erythroid genes inserted on either side of human HS-40 impair the activation of its natural alpha -globin gene targets without being themselves preferentially activated. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:25831-9. [PMID: 10827181 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m001757200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The human alpha-globin gene complex includes three functional globin genes (5'-zeta2-alpha2-alpha1-3') regulated by a common positive regulatory element named HS-40 displaying strong erythroid-specific enhancer activity. How this enhancer activity can be shared between different promoters present at different positions in the same complex is poorly understood. To address this question, we used homologous recombination to target the insertion of marker genes driven by cytomegalovirus or long terminal repeat promoters in both possible orientations either upstream or downstream from the HS-40 region into the single human alpha-globin gene locus present in hybrid mouse erythroleukemia cells. We also used CRE recombinase-mediated cassette exchange to target the insertion of a tagged alpha-globin gene at the same position downstream from HS-40. All these insertions led to a similar decrease in the HS-40-dependent transcription of downstream human alpha-globin genes in differentiated cells. Interestingly, this decrease is associated with the strong activation of the proximal newly inserted alpha-globin gene, whereas in marked contrast, the transcription of the non-erythroid marker genes remains insensitive to HS-40. Taken together, these results indicate that the enhancer activity of HS-40 can be trapped by non-erythroid promoters in both upstream and downstream directions without necessarily leading to their own activation.
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- C Espéret
- Centre de Génétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS UMR 5534, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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Wen SC, Roder K, Hu KY, Rombel I, Gavva NR, Daftari P, Kuo YY, Wang C, Shen CK. Loading of DNA-binding factors to an erythroid enhancer. Mol Cell Biol 2000; 20:1993-2003. [PMID: 10688646 PMCID: PMC110816 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.20.6.1993-2003.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The HS-40 enhancer is the major cis-acting regulatory element responsible for the developmental stage- and erythroid lineage-specific expression of the human alpha-like globin genes, the embryonic zeta and the adult alpha2/alpha/1. A model has been proposed in which competitive factor binding at one of the HS-40 motifs, 3'-NA, modulates the capability of HS-40 to activate the embryonic zeta-globin promoter. Furthermore, this modulation was thought to be mediated through configurational changes of the HS-40 enhanceosome during development. In this study, we have further investigated the molecular basis of this model. First, human erythroid K562 cells stably integrated with various HS-40 mutants cis linked to a human alpha-globin promoter-growth hormone hybrid gene were analyzed by genomic footprinting and expression analysis. By the assay, we demonstrate that factors bound at different motifs of HS-40 indeed act in concert to build a fully functional enhanceosome. Thus, modification of factor binding at a single motif could drastically change the configuration and function of the HS-40 enhanceosome. Second, a specific 1-bp, GC-->TA mutation in the 3'-NA motif of HS-40, 3'-NA(II), has been shown previously to cause significant derepression of the embryonic zeta-globin promoter activity in erythroid cells. This derepression was hypothesized to be regulated through competitive binding of different nuclear factors, in particular AP1 and NF-E2, to the 3'-NA motif. By gel mobility shift and transient cotransfection assays, we now show that 3'-NA(II) mutation completely abolishes the binding of small MafK homodimer. Surprisingly, NF-E2 as well as AP1 can still bind to the 3'-NA(II) sequence. The association constants of both NF-E2 and AP1 are similar to their interactions with the wild-type 3'-NA motif. However, the 3'-NA(II) mutation causes an approximately twofold reduction of the binding affinity of NF-E2 factor to the 3'-NA motif. This reduction of affinity could be accounted for by a twofold-higher rate of dissociation of the NF-E2-3'-NA(II) complex. Finally, we show by chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments that only binding of NF-E2, not AP1, could be detected in vivo in K562 cells around the HS-40 region. These data exclude a role for AP1 in the developmental regulation of the human alpha-globin locus via the 3'-NA motif of HS-40 in embryonic/fetal erythroid cells. Furthermore, extrapolation of the in vitro binding studies suggests that factors other than NF-E2, such as the small Maf homodimers, are likely involved in the regulation of the HS-40 function in vivo.
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- S C Wen
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Daftari P, Gavva NR, Shen CK. Distinction between AP1 and NF-E2 factor-binding at specific chromatin regions in mammalian cells. Oncogene 1999; 18:5482-6. [PMID: 10498903 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1202916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Specific nuclear factor-DNA complexes formed within the promoters and enhancers are essential for transcriptional regulation. For eukaryotic systems, however, some DNA motif(s) are capable of binding to a family of related factors, thus making it difficult to identify the factor actually binding on the chromatic DNA in vivo and modulating the local transcription processes. To resolve this matter, we have refined a chromatin immunoprecipitation assay. Using the assay, we could directly link the regulatory functions of two members of the AP1/NF-E2 transcription factor family and their stable binding in vivo within distinct chromatin regions. The study demonstrated the feasibility of a general scheme in the determination of the identity of specific factor(s), among a group of family members, bound at unique sequence(s) in living mammalian cells.
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- P Daftari
- Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, California, CA 95616, USA
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Gaasenbeek M, Gellersen B, DiMattia GE. DNase I hypersensitivity analysis of non-pituitary human prolactin gene expression. Mol Cell Endocrinol 1999; 152:147-59. [PMID: 10432232 DOI: 10.1016/s0303-7207(99)00034-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The expression of non-pituitary human PRL is initiated at a unique 5' untranslated exon located approximately 5.7 kb upstream of the pituitary-specific transcriptional start site. Unlike pituitary PRL expression, transcriptional regulation from the upstream promoter does not rely on the POU-homeodomain protein Pit-1. We have used DNase I mapping of chromatin from PRL-producing and non-producing human lymphoblastoid cell lines to identify hypersensitive sites unique to the PRL expressing phenotype. Analysis of 22 kb of 5' flanking DNA revealed DNase I hypersensitive sites in intron A-1 separating the pituitary from non-pituitary specific transcription start site which were only detected in the PRL-producing cell line. Transient transfection showed strong transcriptional activity directed by this region only in the antisense orientation and in a non cell-type specific manner. Transfection experiments with deletion mutants of 5259 bp of the non-pituitary PRL promoter region also revealed promoter activity not restricted to the PRL expressing phenotype. These data suggest that non-pituitary PRL gene expression may be regulated by elements located in intron A-1 and that recapitulation of cell-specific expression requires a unique cellular context and chromatin assembly.
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- M Gaasenbeek
- Department of Oncology, The University of Western Ontario and The London Regional Cancer Centre, Canada
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