HYPERSENSITIVE SITE-4 OF THE HUMAN BETA GLOBIN LOCUS-CONTROL REGION

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作者
PRUZINA, S [1 ]
HANSCOMBE, O [1 ]
WHYATT, D [1 ]
GROSVELD, F [1 ]
PHILIPSEN, S [1 ]
机构
[1] NATL INST MED RES,RIDGEWAY,MILL HILL,LONDON NW7 1AA,ENGLAND
基金
英国医学研究理事会;
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10.1093/nar/19.7.1413
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The Locus Control Region (LCR) of the human beta-globin gene domain is defined by four erythroid-specific DNasel hypersensitive sites (HSS) located upstream of this multigene cluster. The LCR confers copy number dependent high levels of erythroid specific expression to a linked transgene, independent of the site of integration. To assess the role of the individual hypersensitive sites of the LCR, we have localized HSS4 to a 280bp fragment that is functional both in murine erythroleukaemia (MEL) cells and in transgenic mice. This fragment coincides with the major area of hypersensitivity 'in vivo' and contains a number of DNasel footprints. Bandshift analysis shows that these footprints correspond to binding sites for the erythroid specific proteins GATA1 and NF-E2 and a number of ubiquitous proteins, including jun/fos, Sp1 and TEF2.
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页码:1413 / 1419
页数:7
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