Enhancer blocking activity located near the 3' end of the sea urchin early H2A histone gene.

ABSTRACT: The sea urchin early histone repeating unit contains one copy of each of the five histone genes whose coordinate expression during development is regulated by gene-specific elements. To learn how within the histone repeating unit a gene-specific activator can be prevented to communicate with the heterologous promoters, we searched for domain boundaries by using the enhancer blocking assay. We focused on the region near the 3' end of the H2A gene where stage-specific nuclease cleavage sites appear upon silencing of the early histone genes. We demonstrated that a DNA fragment of 265 bp in length, defined as sns (for silencing nucleoprotein structure), blocked the enhancer activity of the H2A modulator in microinjected sea urchin embryos only when placed between the enhancer elements and the

SUBMITTER: Palla F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC20077 | biostudies-literature | 1997 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature