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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2004

The minimal promoter plays a major role in silencing of the galago gamma-globin gene in adult erythropoiesis.

Qiliang Li, Xiangdong Fang, Hemei Han, George Stamatoyannopoulos

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Qiliang LiDivision of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. li111640@u.washington.edu
Xiangdong Fang
Hemei Han
George Stamatoyannopoulos
University of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Washington Medical Center · US

Funding

MOLECULAR CONTROL OF GLOBIN GENE SWITCHINGR37DK045365 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI STAMATOYANNOPOULOS, GEORGE · 1998 to 2006
$3.8M
CELLULAR MECHANISMS OF HB F REGULATIONR01HL020899 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI STAMATOYANNOPOULOS, GEORGE · 1985 to 2007
$3.6M
MOLECULAR CONTROL OF HUMAN GLOBIN GENE SWITCHINGR01DK045365 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI STAMATOYANNOPOULOS, GEORGE · 1992 to 2011
$1.6M
Mechanism of Gamma-Globin Gene Activation in the AdultR01DK061805 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI LI, QILIANG · 2001 to 2004
$1.5M
Globin Gene Switching: Molecular ControlR56DK045365 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI STAMATOYANNOPOULOS, GEORGE · 2007 to 2007
$78k
CELLULAR MECHANISMS OF HG F REGULATIONR37HL020899 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI STAMATOYANNOPOULOS, GEORGE · 1987 to 1996
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NHLBI NIH HHS HL20899NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL020899NIDDK NIH HHS DK45365NIDDK NIH HHS DK61805NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK045365NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK061805NIDDK NIH HHS R37 DK045365NIDDK NIH HHS R56 DK045365
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human gamma-globin gene and its orthologous galago gamma-globin gene evolved from an ancestral epsilon-globin gene. In galago, expression of the gamma-gene remained restricted to the embryonic stage of development, whereas in humans, expression of the gamma-gene was recruited to the fetal stage. To localize the cis-elements responsible for this developmentally distinct regulation, we studied the expression patterns of the human gamma-gene driven by either the human or the galago gamma-promoters in transgenic mice. gamma-gene transcription driven by either promoter reached similar levels in embryonic erythropoiesis. In adult erythropoiesis the gamma-gene was silenced when controlled by the galago gamma-promoter, but it was expressed at a high level when it was linked to the human gamma-promoter. By a series of gamma-promoter truncations the sequences required for the down-regulation of the galago gamma-globin gene were localized to the minimal promoter. Furthermore, by interchanging the TATA, CCAAT, and CACCC elements between the human and galago minimal promoters we found that whereas each box made a developmentally distinctive contribution to gamma-globin gene expression, the CACCC box was largely responsible for the down-regulation of the gamma-gene in adult erythropoiesis.

Indexed as

Gene SilencingAnimalsBase SequenceDown-RegulationErythrocytesErythropoiesisGalagoGlobinsHumansMiceMice, TransgenicMolecular Sequence DataPromoter Regions, GeneticTATA BoxTransgenesGlobins

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PMID15148375
PMCPMC419563
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