Evidence map›Paper›PMID 8790334›Full record

ReviewProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America1996

A dynamic assembly of diverse transcription factors integrates activation and cell-type information for interleukin 2 gene regulation.

E V Rothenberg, S B Ward

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Review in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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50citing papers in PubMed
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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50 citing papers in PubMed, 178 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. T-cell identity and epigenetic memory.Current topics in microbiology and immunology · 2012
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

E V RothenbergDivision of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125, USA. evroth@cco.caltech.edu
S B Ward
California Institute of Technology · US

Funding

LINEAGE ANALYSIS OF FUNCTION IN MURINE LYMPHOCYTESR01AG013108 · NIA · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ROTHENBERG, ELLEN V. · 1995 to 2004
$1.6M
DEVELOPMENTAL CONTROL OF IL-2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORSR01AI034041 · NIAID · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ROTHENBERG, ELLEN V. · 1993 to 1997
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NIAID NIH HHS AI34041NIA NIH HHS AG13108
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The interleukin 2 (IL-2) gene is subject to two types of regulation: its expression is T-lymphocyte-specific and it is acutely dependent on specific activation signals. The IL-2 transcriptional apparatus integrates multiple types of biochemical information in determining whether or not the gene will be expressed, using multiple diverse transcription factors that are each optimally activated or inhibited by different signaling pathways. When activation of one or two of these factors is blocked IL-2 expression is completely inhibited. The inability of the other, unaffected factors to work is explained by the striking finding that none of the factors interacts stably with its target site in the IL-2 enhancer unless all the factors are present. Coordinate occupancy of all the sites in the minimal enhancer is apparently maintained by continuous assembly and disassembly cycles that respond to the instantaneous levels of each factor in the nuclear compartment. In addition, the minimal enhancer undergoes specific increases in DNase I accessibility, consistent with dramatic changes in chromatin structure upon activation. Still to be resolved is what interaction(s) conveys T-lineage specificity. In the absence of activating signals, the minimal IL-2 enhancer region in mature T cells is apparently unoccupied, exactly as in non-T lineage cells. However, in a conserved but poorly studied upstream region, we have now mapped several novel sites of DNase I hypersensitivity in vivo that constitutively distinguish IL-2 producer type T cells from cell types that cannot express IL-2. Thus a distinct domain of the IL-2 regulatory sequence may contain sites for competence- or lineage-marking protein contacts.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalAnimalsInterleukin-2Signal TransductionT-LymphocytesTranscription FactorsInterleukin-2Transcription Factors

Identifiers

PMID8790334
PMCPMC38432
OpenAlexW2010428440

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