| Literature DB >> 12874112 |
Minjie Du1, Linda G Beatty, Wenjing Zhou, Jocelyne Lew, Christopher Schoenherr, Rosanna Weksberg, Paul D Sadowski.
Abstract
The imprinting of the genes on human chromosome 11p15.5 is thought to be controlled by two imprinting control regions located in two differentially methylated CpG islands upstream of the H19 gene (H19 DMR) and in intron 10 of the KCNQ1 gene (KvDMR). We have examined sequences in the human 11p15.5 genomic imprinted region for the presence of insulators and silencers using a position- and enhancer-dependent stable transfection assay. We have confirmed the existence of insulators in H19 DMR and discovered two novel insulators in the IGF2 gene. We have also found two novel silencer sequences; one is located in KvDMR, a region that is thought to contain the promoter for the KCNQ1OT1 transcript, and another is in the CDKN1C gene. We have demonstrated binding of CTCF protein in vitro to all the insulator and silencer sequences that we have detected. We discuss the differences in the regulation of imprinting controlled by the two imprinting control regions in chromosome 11p.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID： 12874112 DOI： 10.1093/hmg/ddg194
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Hum Mol Genet ISSN： 0964-6906 Impact factor: 6.150