期刊
INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
卷 36, 期 -, 页码 490-499出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2015.08.023
关键词
Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum var genes; GC-elements; Mutually exclusive expression; Non-coding RNA
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31370785, 31271388, 81361130411]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [1500219094]
As the primary virulence factor of falciparum malaria, var genes harboring mutually exclusive expression pattern lead to antigenic variation and immune evasion of this pathogen in human host. Although various mechanisms contribute to silence of var genes, little is known of transcriptional activation pathways of a single var gene and maintenance of its active state with other silent var loci. Here, we report a monoallelic expression pattern of the non-coding GC-elements flanking chromosomal internal var genes, and transcript from the active one was required for activation of the var gene in the same array. Meanwhile, GFP reporter assays revealed a repressive effect on the adjacent gene induced by DNA motifs of the insulator-like GC-element, which was linked to heterochromatin subnuclear localization. Taken together, these data for the first time provide experimental evidence of the dual cis- and trans-acting regulatory functions of the GC-elements in both silence and activation of var genes, which would advance our understanding of the complex regulatory network of the virulence gene family in P. falciparum. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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