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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 16, Pages 3031-3039Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.16.3031
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM021346, GM21346] Funding Source: Medline
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Alu repeats in K562 cells are unusually hypomethylated and far more actively transcribed than those in other human cell lines and somatic tissues. Also, the level of Alu RNA in K562 cells is relatively insensitive to cell stresses, namely heat shock, adenovirus infection and treatment with cycloheximide, which increase the abundance of Alu RNA in HeLa and 293 cells. Recent advances in understanding the interactions between DNA methylation, transcriptional activation and chromatin conformation reveal reasons for the constitutively high level of Alu expression in K562 cells, Methylation represses transcription of transiently transfected Alu templates in all cell lines tested but cell stresses do not relieve this repression suggesting that they activate Alu transcription through another pathway, A relatively large fraction of the Alus within K562 chromatin is accessible to restriction enzyme cleavage and cell stresses increase the chromatin accessibility of Alus in HeLa and 293 cells, Cell stress evidently activates Alu transcription by rapidly remodeling chromatin to recruit additional templates.
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