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ArticleScientific reports2016

The mechanism of transactivation regulation due to polymorphic short tandem repeats (STRs) using IGF1 promoter as a model.

Holly Y Chen, Suk Ling Ma, Wei Huang, Lindan Ji, Vincent H K Leung, Honglin Jiang, Xiaoqiang Yao, Nelson L S Tang

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. STRs: Ancient Architectures of the Genome beyond the Sequence.Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2021
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  12. Relationship of SNP rs35767 in IGF-1 promoter region with susceptibility to colorectal cancer.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2018
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8 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Holly Y ChenDepartment of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Suk Ling MaDepartment of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Wei HuangState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Department of Pharmaceutics, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Lindan JiDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pathophysiology, Ningbo University School of Medicine, Ningbo, China.
Vincent H K LeungDepartment of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Honglin JiangDepartment of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
Xiaoqiang YaoSchool of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Nelson L S TangDepartment of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Chinese University of Hong Kong · CNChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CNNingbo University · CNUniversity of Hong Kong · HKVirginia Tech · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Functional short tandem repeats (STR) are polymorphic in the population, and the number of repeats regulates the expression of nearby genes (known as expression STR, eSTR). STR in IGF1 promoter has been extensively studied for its association with IGF1 concentration in blood and various clinical traits and represents an important eSTR. We previously used an in-vitro luciferase reporter model to examine the interaction between STRs and SNPs in IGF1 promoter. Here, we further explored the mechanism how the number of repeats of the STR regulates gene transcription. An inverse correlation between the number of repeats and the extent of transactivation was found in a haplotype consisting of three promoter SNPs (C-STR-T-T). We showed that these adjacent SNPs located outside the STR were required for the STR to function as eSTR. The C allele of rs35767 provides a binding site for CCAAT/enhancer-binding-protein δ (C/EBPD), which is essential for the gradational transactivation property of eSTR and FOXA3 may also be involved. Therefore, we propose a mechanism in which the gradational transactivation by the eSTR is caused by the interaction of one or more transcriptional complexes located outside the STR, rather than by direct binding to a repeat motif of the STR.

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Polymorphism, Single NucleotideCell LineHumansInsulin-Like Growth Factor IMicrosatellite RepeatsNucleotide MotifsResponse ElementsTranscriptional ActivationTranscription, GeneticIGF1 protein, humanInsulin-Like Growth Factor I

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