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ArticleScientific reports2017

Characterization of a core region in the A2UCOE that confers effective anti-silencing activity.

Fang Zhang, Giorgia Santilli, Adrian J Thrasher

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fang ZhangMolecular and Cellular Immunology, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, London, WC1N 1EH, UK.
Giorgia SantilliMolecular and Cellular Immunology, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, London, WC1N 1EH, UK.
Adrian J ThrasherMolecular and Cellular Immunology, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, London, WC1N 1EH, UK. a.thrasher@ucl.ac.uk.
University College London · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We have previously shown that reliability of the A2UCOE in driving transgene expression can be attributed to its resistance to DNA methylation, and its ability to confer this property to linked regulatory sequences. In order to gain a better understanding of how resistance to DNA methylation from the A2UCOE is conferred, and whether the anti-silencing effect from the A2UCOE is confined within a core region, we evaluated the anti-silencing effect of different sub-domains. We found that maximal epigenetic regulatory activity was contained within a 455 bp element derived from the CBX3 region when tested in the context of a lentiviral vector in murine embryonic stem (ES) cells and human inducible pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. This region possessed an active chromatin signature, and operated effectively in cis to protect linked heterologous regulatory elements from methylation, thereby conferring stable transgene expression. Defined UCOE elements may be particularly useful for use in vectors where gene expression is desired in methylation-prone chromatin environments such as those encountered in pluripotent stem cells.

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CpG IslandsTransgenesAnimalsCell LineChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneDNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticGene ExpressionGene SilencingHEK293 CellsHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsMiceMouse Embryonic Stem CellsPromoter Regions, GeneticCBX3 protein, humanChromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone

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PMID28860464
PMCPMC5578987
OpenAlexW2747048574

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