An autoregulatory enhancer controls mammary-specific STAT5 functions

ABSTRACT: Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription (STATs) are principal transcription factors downstream of cytokine receptors. Although STAT5A is expressed in most tissues it remains to be understood why its premier, non-redundant functions are restricted to prolactin-induced mammary gland development. We report that the ubiquitously expressed Stat5a/b locus is subject to lineage-specific transcriptional control in mammary epithelium. Genome-wide surveys of epigenetic status and transcription factor occupancy uncovered a putative mammary-specific enhancer within the intergenic sequences separating the two Stat5 genes. This region exhibited several hallmarks of genomic enhancers, including DNaseI hypersensitive sites, H3K27 acetylation and binding by GR and MED1. Mammary-specific STAT5 bi

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Sumin Oh 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-72724 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress