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Transcription profiling of E2F4 double knockout mice and heterozygous littermates

ABSTRACT: We considered the possibility that removal of E2F4, as a key regulator of cellular quiescence, would cause systemic perturbations in the expression of E2F4 bound genes involved in cell cycle and proliferation. To test whether these pertubrations were reflected in the adult tissues' gene expression programs, we compared the gene expression profile of E2F4 double knockout mice to the gene expression found in identical tissues from E2F4 heterozygous littermates, that are phenotypically normal. We selected liver, testes, and kidney to profile by gene expression analysis, because two of these tissues are affected at some point during development when E2F4 is missing.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Duncan Odom

PROVIDER: E-MEXP-1131 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Cell cycle genes are the evolutionarily conserved targets of the E2F4 transcription factor.

Conboy Caitlin M CM Spyrou Christiana C Thorne Natalie P NP Wade Elizabeth J EJ Barbosa-Morais Nuno L NL Wilson Michael D MD Bhattacharjee Arindam A Young Richard A RA Tavaré Simon S Lees Jacqueline A JA Odom Duncan T DT

PloS one 20071024 10

Maintaining quiescent cells in G0 phase is achieved in part through the multiprotein subunit complex known as DREAM, and in human cell lines the transcription factor E2F4 directs this complex to its cell cycle targets. We found that E2F4 binds a highly overlapping set of human genes among three diverse primary tissues and an asynchronous cell line, which suggests that tissue-specific binding partners and chromatin structure have minimal influence on E2F4 targeting. To investigate the conservatio ...[more]

PMID: 17957245

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Transcription profiling of E2F4 double knockout mice and heterozygous littermates

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Cell cycle genes are the evolutionarily conserved targets of the E2F4 transcription factor.

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