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ArticleMolecular and cellular biology2009

PU.1 can recruit BCL6 to DNA to repress gene expression in germinal center B cells.

Fang Wei, Kristina Zaprazna, Junwen Wang, Michael L Atchison

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Article in Molecular and cellular biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Fang WeiDepartment of Animal Biology and Mari Lowe Center for Comparative Oncology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Kristina Zaprazna
Junwen Wang
Michael L Atchison
University of Pennsylvania · USSouthwest Baptist University · US

Funding

Control of B cell Development by YY1R01AI079002 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ATCHISON, MICHAEL LEE · 2010 to 2020
$4.3M
PcG Function of YY1 in Transcription and DevelopmentR01GM071830 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ATCHISON, MICHAEL LEE · 2006 to 2010
$1.3M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI079002NIGMS NIH HHS GM071830NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM071830
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BCL6 is a transcriptional repressor crucial for germinal center formation. BCL6 represses transcription by a variety of mechanisms by binding to specific DNA sequences or by recruitment to DNA by protein interactions. We found that BCL6 can inhibit activities of the immunoglobulin kappa (Igkappa) intron and 3' enhancers. At the Igkappa 3' enhancer, BCL6 repressed enhancer activity through the PU.1 binding site. We found that BCL6 physically interacted with PU.1 in vivo and in vitro, and the results of sequential chromatin immunoprecipitation assays and transient-expression assays suggested that BCL6 recruitment to the Igkappa and Iglambda 3' enhancers occurred via PU.1 interaction. By computational studies, we identified genes that are repressed in germinal center cells and whose promoters contain conserved PU.1 binding sites in mouse and human. We found that many of these promoters bound to both PU.1 and BCL6 in vivo. In addition, BCL6 knockdown resulted in increased expression of a subset of these genes, demonstrating that BCL6 is involved in their repression. The recruitment of BCL6 to promoter regions by PU.1 represents a new regulatory mechanism that expands the number of genes regulated by this important transcriptional repressor.

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Enhancer Elements, GeneticGene Expression RegulationAnimalsB-LymphocytesDNAGerminal CenterHumansImmunoglobulin lambda-ChainsImmunoglobulinsIntronsMicePromoter Regions, GeneticProto-Oncogene ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-6Proto-Oncogene Protein Spi-1Trans-ActivatorsDNAIgKImmunoglobulin lambda-ChainsImmunoglobulinsProto-Oncogene ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-6Proto-Oncogene Protein Spi-1Trans-Activators

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PMID19564417
PMCPMC2725722
OpenAlexW2104703500

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