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ArticleJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)2011

The role of germline promoters and I exons in cytokine-induced gene-specific class switch recombination.

Wesley A Dunnick, Jian Shi, Victoria Holden, Clinton Fontaine, John T Collins

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Article in Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Wesley A DunnickDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. wesadunn@umich.edu
Jian Shi
Victoria Holden
Clinton Fontaine
John T Collins
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · USPennsylvania State University · US

Funding

XenograftP30CA046592 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI THEODORE S LAWRENCE · 1988 to 2026
$178.2M
DNA sequences involved in the heavy chain switchR01AI076057 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI DUNNICK, WESLEY A. · 2007 to 2011
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS CA46592NCI NIH HHS P30 CA046592NIAID NIH HHS AI076057NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI076057
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Germline transcription precedes class switch recombination (CSR). The promoter regions and I exons of these germline transcripts include binding sites for activation- and cytokine-induced transcription factors, and the promoter regions/I exons are essential for CSR. Therefore, it is a strong hypothesis that the promoter/I exons regions are responsible for much of cytokine-regulated, gene-specific CSR. We tested this hypothesis by swapping the germline promoter and I exons for the murine γ1 and γ2a H chain genes in a transgene of the entire H chain C-region locus. We found that the promoter/I exon for γ1 germline transcripts can direct robust IL-4-induced recombination to the γ2a gene. In contrast, the promoter/I exon for the γ2a germline transcripts works poorly in the context of the γ1 H chain gene, resulting in expression of γ1 H chains that is <1% the wild-type level. Nevertheless, the small amount of recombination to the chimeric γ1 gene is induced by IFN-γ. These results suggest that cytokine regulation of CSR, but not the magnitude of CSR, is regulated by the promoter/I exons.

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AnimalsCells, CulturedChickensCytokinesExonsGene Expression RegulationImmunoglobulin Class SwitchingImmunoglobulin Heavy ChainsImmunoglobulin Switch RegionImmunoglobulin Variable RegionIntronsMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicPromoter Regions, GeneticCytokinesImmunoglobulin Heavy ChainsImmunoglobulin Variable Region

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PMID21131417
PMCPMC3059604
OpenAlexW2138449617

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