Promoter-enhancer looping and shadow enhancers of the mouse αA-crystallin locus.

ABSTRACT: Gene regulation by enhancers is important for precise temporal and spatial gene expression. Enhancers can drive gene expression regardless of their location, orientation or distance from the promoter. Changes in chromatin conformation and chromatin looping occur to bring the promoter and enhancers into close proximity. αA-crystallin ranks among one of the most abundantly expressed genes and proteins in the mammalian lens. The αA-crystallin locus is characterized by a 16 kb chromatin domain marked by two distal enhancers, 5' DCR1 and 3' DCR3. Here we used chromatin conformation capture (3C) analysis and transgenic approaches to analyze temporal control of the mouse αA-crystallin gene. We find that DCR1 is necessary, but not sufficient alone to drive expression at E10.5 in the mouse lens pit

SUBMITTER: McGreal-Estrada RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6310886 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature