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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2022

Notch-dependent DNA cis-regulatory elements and their dose-dependent control of C. elegans stem cell self-renewal.

Tina R Lynch, Mingyu Xue, Cazza W Czerniak, ChangHwan Lee, Judith Kimble

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2022. 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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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. LST-1 is a bifunctional regulator that feeds back on Notch-dependent transcription to regulateProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  7. Analysis of the C. elegans Germline Stem Cell Pool.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Tina R LynchDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2730-2669
Mingyu XueDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5754-1188
Cazza W CzerniakDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4359-8335
ChangHwan LeeDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9821-9312
Judith KimbleDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5622-2073

Funding

Molecular regulation of germline developmentR01GM134119 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI KIMBLE, JUDITH · 2019 to 2022
$2.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM134119
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A long-standing biological question is how DNA cis-regulatory elements shape transcriptional patterns during metazoan development. Reporter constructs, cell culture assays and computational modeling have made major contributions to answering this question, but analysis of elements in their natural context is an important complement. Here, we mutate Notch-dependent LAG-1 binding sites (LBSs) in the endogenous Caenorhabditis elegans sygl-1 gene, which encodes a key stem cell regulator, and analyze the consequences on sygl-1 expression (nascent transcripts, mRNA, protein) and stem cell maintenance. Mutation of one LBS in a three-element cluster approximately halved both expression and stem cell pool size, whereas mutation of two LBSs essentially abolished them. Heterozygous LBS mutant clusters provided intermediate values. Our results lead to two major conclusions. First, both LBS number and configuration impact cluster activity: LBSs act additively in trans and synergistically in cis. Second, the SYGL-1 gradient promotes self-renewal above its functional threshold and triggers differentiation below the threshold. Our approach of coupling CRISPR/Cas9 LBS mutations with effects on both molecular and biological readouts establishes a powerful model for in vivo analyses of DNA cis-regulatory elements.

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Caenorhabditis elegansRegulatory Elements, TranscriptionalStem CellsAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsCell Self RenewalDNADNA-Binding ProteinsReceptors, NotchCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsDNADNA-Binding ProteinsReceptors, NotchGradientHomotypic clustersmFISHSpatiotemporal resolutionsygl-1Transcription factor binding site

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PMID35394007
PMCPMC9058496

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