Journal
EMBO REPORTS
Volume 8, Issue 11, Pages 1068-1073Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7401094
Keywords
gene silencing; H19; imprinting control region; non-coding RNAs
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- MRC [G0400154] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/E/B/0000S119, BBS/E/B/0000C214] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0400154] Funding Source: researchfish
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/E/B/0000C214, BBS/E/B/0000S119] Funding Source: Medline
- Medical Research Council [G0400154] Funding Source: Medline
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The imprinting control region ( ICR) upstream of H19 is the key regulatory element conferring monoallelic expression on H19 and Igf2 ( insulin- like growth factor 2). Epigenetic marks in the ICR regulate its interaction with the chromatin protein CCCTC-binding factor and with other control factors to coordinate gene silencing in the imprinting cluster. Here, we show that the H19 ICR is biallelically transcribed, producing both sense and antisense RNAs. We analyse the function of the non- coding transcripts in a Drosophila transgenic system in which the H19 upstream region silences the expression of a reporter gene. We show that knockdown of H19 ICR non- coding RNA ( ncRNA) by RNA interference leads to the loss of reporter gene silencing. Our results are, to the best of our knowledge, the first to show that ncRNAs in the H19 ICR are functionally significant, and also indicate that they have a role in regulating gene expression and perhaps epigenetic marks at the H19/ Igf2 locus.
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