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El gen c-myc codifica los promotores superpuestos de ARN polimerasa II y III
J Chung1, D J Sussman, R Zeller
1Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Cell
|December 24, 1987
Resumen
El gen c-myc del gen c-myc.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Biología Molecular Biología Molecular
- Regulación genética Reglamento genético.
- La genómica es la genómica.
Sus antecedentes:
- El primer exón del gen c-myc exhibe características únicas, incluyendo frecuente transcripción y conservación.
- Estas propiedades sugieren un papel regulador más allá de la simple codificación de proteínas.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para investigar las inusuales propiedades del primer exón del gen c-myc.
- Aclarar el mecanismo subyacente de su alta tasa de transcripción y su potencial regulatorio.
Principales métodos:
- Ensayos de transcripción in vitro con las polimerasas II y III de ARN purificado (pol II y III).
- Análisis de la iniciación y terminación de la transcripción en el promotor principal c-mico (P2).
- Investigando el comportamiento de la polimerasa en el extremo 3' del primer exón.
Principales resultados:
- El promotor principal de c-myc (P2) es bifuncional, apoyando la iniciación tanto por pol II como por pol III.
- Pol III está bloqueado cerca del extremo 3' del primer exón, mientras que pol II sólo está parcialmente bloqueado.
- La actividad diferencial de la polimerasa sugiere un nuevo mecanismo de regulación génica.
Conclusiones:
- La naturaleza bifuncional del promotor c-myc y la pausa de la polimerasa diferencial proporcionan un mecanismo para regular la expresión génica c-myc.
- Esta actividad transcripcional superpuesta puede permitir que un sistema polimerasa influya en el otro, contribuyendo al control genético.
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