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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 37, 期 22, 页码 7394-7406出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp838
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- The Ministry of Science and Education of the Russian Federation [02.740.11.0289]
- Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Russian Foundation for Support of Basic Researches [08-04-91970, 08-04-00048, 09-04-00059, 09-04-90400]
For more than 30 years it was believed that globin gene domains included only genes encoding globin chains. Here we show that in chickens, the domain of alpha-globin genes also harbor the non-globin gene TMEM8. It was relocated to the vicinity of the alpha-globin cluster due to inversion of an similar to 170-kb genomic fragment. Although in humans TMEM8 is preferentially expressed in resting T-lymphocytes, in chickens it acquired an erythroid-specific expression profile and is upregulated upon terminal differentiation of erythroblasts. This correlates with the presence of erythroid-specific regulatory elements in the body of chicken TMEM8, which interact with regulatory elements of the alpha-globin genes. Surprisingly, TMEM8 is not simply recruited to the alpha-globin gene domain active chromatin hub. An alternative chromatin hub is assembled, which includes some of the regulatory elements essential for the activation of globin gene expression. These regulatory elements should thus shuttle between two different chromatin hubs.
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