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Iannello RC Gould JA Young JC Giudice A Medcalf R Kola I 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2000,275(26):19603-19608
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Methylation of CpG dinucleotides in the open reading frame of a testicular germ cell-specific intronless gene,Tact1/Actl7b,represses its expression in somatic cells
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Methylation of CpG islands spanning promoter regions is associated with control of gene expression. However, it is considered that methylation of exonic CpG islands without promoter is not related to gene expression, because such exonic CpG islands are usually distant from the promoter. Whether methylation of exonic CpG islands near the promoter, as in the case of a CpG-rich intronless gene, causes repression of the promoter remains unknown. To gain insight into this issue, we investigated the distribution and methylation status of CpG dinucleotides in the mouse Tact1/Actl7b gene, which is intronless and expressed exclusively in testicular germ cells. The region upstream to the gene was poor in CpG, with CpG dinucleotides absent from the core promoter. However, a CpG island was found inside the open reading frame (ORF). Analysis of the methylation status of the Tact1/Actl7b gene including the 5′-flanking area demonstrated that all CpG sites were methylated in somatic cells, whereas these sites were unmethylated in the Tact1/Actl7b-positive testis. Trans fection experiments with in vitro-methylated constructs indicated that methylation of the ORF but not 5′ upstream repressed Tact1/Actl7b promoter activity in somatic cells. Similar effects of ORF methylation on the promoter activity were observed in testicular germ cells. These are the first results indicating that methylation of the CpG island in the ORF represses its promoter in somatic cells and demethylation is necessary for gene expression in spermatogenic cells. 相似文献
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A DNA signal from the Thy-1 gene defines de novo methylation patterns in embryonic stem cells. 总被引:5,自引:1,他引:4
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Although DNA can be extensively methylated de novo when introduced into pluripotent cells, the CpG island in the Thy-1 gene does not become methylated either in the mouse embryo or in embryonic stem cells. A 214-base-pair region near the promoter of the Thy-1 gene protects itself as well as heterologous DNA sequences from de novo methylation. We propose that this nucleotide sequence is representative of a class of important signals that limits de novo methylation in the embryo and establishes the pattern of hypomethylated CpG dinucleotides found in somatic tissues. 相似文献
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Protein binding regions in the mouse and rat protamine-2 genes 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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Methylation of the cyclin A1 promoter correlates with gene silencing in somatic cell lines, while tissue-specific expression of cyclin A1 is methylation independent
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Müller C Readhead C Diederichs S Idos G Yang R Tidow N Serve H Berdel WE Koeffler HP 《Molecular and cellular biology》2000,20(9):3316-3329
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Demethylation of somatic and testis-specific histone H2A and H2B genes in F9 embryonal carcinoma cells. 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
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In contrast to many other genes containing a CpG island, the testis-specific H2B (TH2B) histone gene exhibits tissue-specific methylation patterns in correlation with gene activity. Characterization of the methylation patterns within a 20-kb segment containing the TH2A and TH2B genes in comparison with that in a somatic histone cluster revealed that: (i) the germ cell-specific unmethylated domain of the TH2A and TH2B genes is defined as a small region surrounding the CpG islands of the TH2A and TH2B genes and (ii) somatic histone genes are unmethylated in both liver and germ cells, like other genes containing CpG islands, whereas flanking sequences are methylated. Transfection of in vitro-methylated TH2B, somatic H2B, and mouse metallothionein I constructs into F9 embryonal carcinoma cells revealed that the CpG islands of the TH2A and TH2B genes were demethylated like those of the somatic H2A and H2B genes and the metallothionein I gene. The demethylation of those CpG islands became significantly inefficient at a high number of integrated copies and a high density of methylated CpG dinucleotides. In contrast, three sites in the somatic histone cluster, of which two sites are located in the long terminal repeat of an endogenous retrovirus-like sequence, were efficiently demethylated even at a high copy number and a high density of methylated CpG dinucleotides. These results suggest two possible mechanisms for demethylation in F9 cells and methylation of CpG islands of the TH2A and TH2B genes at the postblastula stage during embryogenesis. 相似文献
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