Promoter-enhancer looping and shadow enhancers of the mouse αA-crystallin locus
Gene regulation by enhancers is important for precise temporal and spatial gene expression. Enhancers can drive gene expression regardless of their location, orientation or distance from the promoter. Changes in chromatin conformation and chromatin looping occur to bring the promoter and enhancers i...
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author | Rebecca S. McGreal-Estrada Louise V. Wolf Ales Cvekl |
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description | Gene regulation by enhancers is important for precise temporal and spatial gene expression. Enhancers can drive gene expression regardless of their location, orientation or distance from the promoter. Changes in chromatin conformation and chromatin looping occur to bring the promoter and enhancers into close proximity. αA-crystallin ranks among one of the most abundantly expressed genes and proteins in the mammalian lens. The αA-crystallin locus is characterized by a 16 kb chromatin domain marked by two distal enhancers, 5′ DCR1 and 3′ DCR3. Here we used chromatin conformation capture (3C) analysis and transgenic approaches to analyze temporal control of the mouse αA-crystallin gene. We find that DCR1 is necessary, but not sufficient alone to drive expression at E10.5 in the mouse lens pit. Chromatin looping revealed interaction between the promoter and the region 3′ to DCR1, identifying a novel enhancer region in the αA-crystallin locus. We determined that this novel enhancer region, DCR1S, recapitulates the temporal control by DCR1. Acting as shadow enhancers, DCR1 and DCR1S are able to control expression in the lens vesicle at E11.5. It remains to be elucidated however, which region of the αA-crystallin locus is responsible for expression in the lens pit at E10.5. |
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spelling | doaj.art-b4861c36ece74b02880ad73178d686f42022-12-21T22:53:44ZengThe Company of BiologistsBiology Open2046-63902018-12-0171210.1242/bio.036897036897Promoter-enhancer looping and shadow enhancers of the mouse αA-crystallin locusRebecca S. McGreal-Estrada0Louise V. Wolf1Ales Cvekl2 Departments Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Ullmann 123, Bronx, NY 10461, USA Departments Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Ullmann 123, Bronx, NY 10461, USA Departments Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Ullmann 123, Bronx, NY 10461, USA Gene regulation by enhancers is important for precise temporal and spatial gene expression. Enhancers can drive gene expression regardless of their location, orientation or distance from the promoter. Changes in chromatin conformation and chromatin looping occur to bring the promoter and enhancers into close proximity. αA-crystallin ranks among one of the most abundantly expressed genes and proteins in the mammalian lens. The αA-crystallin locus is characterized by a 16 kb chromatin domain marked by two distal enhancers, 5′ DCR1 and 3′ DCR3. Here we used chromatin conformation capture (3C) analysis and transgenic approaches to analyze temporal control of the mouse αA-crystallin gene. We find that DCR1 is necessary, but not sufficient alone to drive expression at E10.5 in the mouse lens pit. Chromatin looping revealed interaction between the promoter and the region 3′ to DCR1, identifying a novel enhancer region in the αA-crystallin locus. We determined that this novel enhancer region, DCR1S, recapitulates the temporal control by DCR1. Acting as shadow enhancers, DCR1 and DCR1S are able to control expression in the lens vesicle at E11.5. It remains to be elucidated however, which region of the αA-crystallin locus is responsible for expression in the lens pit at E10.5.http://bio.biologists.org/content/7/12/bio036897Chromatin loopingαA-crystallinEnhancerShadow enhancerLensDevelopment |
spellingShingle | Rebecca S. McGreal-Estrada Louise V. Wolf Ales Cvekl Promoter-enhancer looping and shadow enhancers of the mouse αA-crystallin locus Biology Open Chromatin looping αA-crystallin Enhancer Shadow enhancer Lens Development |
title | Promoter-enhancer looping and shadow enhancers of the mouse αA-crystallin locus |
title_full | Promoter-enhancer looping and shadow enhancers of the mouse αA-crystallin locus |
title_fullStr | Promoter-enhancer looping and shadow enhancers of the mouse αA-crystallin locus |
title_full_unstemmed | Promoter-enhancer looping and shadow enhancers of the mouse αA-crystallin locus |
title_short | Promoter-enhancer looping and shadow enhancers of the mouse αA-crystallin locus |
title_sort | promoter enhancer looping and shadow enhancers of the mouse αa crystallin locus |
topic | Chromatin looping αA-crystallin Enhancer Shadow enhancer Lens Development |
url | http://bio.biologists.org/content/7/12/bio036897 |
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