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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 169, Issue 9, Pages 5078-5088Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.9.5078
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI34000] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM47310] Funding Source: Medline
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The class II transactivator (CIITA) is a master regulator of MHC class II expression. CIITA also modulates the expression of MHC class I genes, suggesting that it may have a more global role in gene expression. To determine whether CIITA regulates genes other than the MHC class II and I family, DNA microarray analysis was used to compare the expression, profiles of the CIITA expressing B cell line Raji and its CIITA-negative counterpart RJ2.2.5. The comparison identified a wide variety of genes whose expression was modulated by CIITA. Real time RT-PCR from Raji, RJ2.2.5, an RJ2.2.5 cell line complemented with CIITA, was performed to confirm the results and to further identify CHTA-regulated genes. CIITA-regulated genes were found to have diverse functions, which could impact Ag processing, signaling, and proliferation. Of note was the identification of a set of genes localized to chromosome 1p34-35. The global modulation of genes in a local region suggests that this region may share some regulatory control with the MHC.
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