核受体增强转录需要在染色体间颗粒中的运动和LSD1依赖基因网络
Esperanza Nunez1, Young-Soo Kwon, Kasey R Hutt
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0651, USA.
Cell
|March 25, 2008
概括
干刺激会触发核组织的快速变化,形成新的染色体间相互作用. 这种核重组对于增强基因转录至关重要,突出显示了3D核架构在基因调节中的作用.
科学领域:
- 细胞生物学 细胞生物学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 基因组学就是基因组学.
背景情况:
- 转录的分子机制是众所周知的.
- 对于基因表达的3D核组织的调控在很大程度上是未知的.
研究的目的:
- 研究核组织如何调节基因转录以响应信号事件.
- 为了确定参与核架构中联体诱导的变化的分子参与者.
主要方法:
- 研究了联结体诱导的染色体间相互作用.
- 研究了核乙烯/肌-I,丁氨酸轻链1 (DLC1),联合激活剂和染色质重塑剂的作用.
- 评估了组胺氨酸脱甲基酶LSD1和间染色素颗粒的功能.
主要成果:
- 连接体刺激导致了快速的染色体间相互作用和核重组.
- 核乙烯/肌-I,DLC1,协同激活剂和染色体重塑剂对于这个过程至关重要.
- LSD1将相互作用位点引导到染色体间颗粒,这些颗粒对于提高雌激素受体基因的转录至关重要.
结论:
- 3D核架构在编排基因表达程序方面发挥着至关重要的作用.
- 调节基因转录需要运动依赖的核相互作用.
- 互色胺颗粒通过动态核组织参与调节基因表达.
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