期刊
GENOMICS
卷 85, 期 5, 页码 630-640出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2005.02.004
关键词
disease mechanisms; gene expression; microarray; quantitative mRNA transcription; transregulation
资金
- NCI NIH HHS [CA93444, CA62234, CA73507] Funding Source: Medline
- NICHD NIH HHS [HD31491, HD36079] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDCR NIH HHS [DE13127] Funding Source: Medline
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a complex neurobehavioral disorder that results from loss of function of 10 clustered, paternally expressed genes in a 1.5-Mb region of chromosome l5q11 -q13. Many of the primary PWS region genes appear to have nuclear RNA regulatory functions, suggesting that multiple genetic pathways could be secondarily affected in PWS. Using a transgenic mouse model of PWS (TgPWS) with an similar to 4-Mb chromosome 7C deletion of paternal origin that models the neonatal phenotype of the human syndrome we compared by oligonucleotide microarrays expression levels of similar to 12,000 genes and ESTs in TgPWS and wild-type brain. Hybridization data were processed with two distinct statistical algorithms and revealed a dramatically reduced expression of 4 imprinted genes within the deletion region in TgPWS mice, with 2 nonimprinted, codeleted genes reduced rwofold. However, only 3 genes outside the deletion were significantly altered in TgPWS mouse brain, with similar to 1.5-fold up-regulation of mRNA levels. Remarkably, these genes map to a single chromosome domain (18B3), and by quantitative RT-PCR we show that 8 genes in this domain are up-regulated in TgPWS brain. These 18B3 genes were up-regulated in an equivalent manner in Angelman syndrome mouse (TgAS) brain, which has the same deletion but of maternal origin. Therefore, the trans-regulation of the chromosome 18B3 domain is due to decreased expression of a nonimprinted gene within the TgPWS/AS mouse deletion in mouse chromosome 7C. Most surprisingly, since 48-60% of the genome was screened, it appears that the imprinted mouse PWS loci do not widely regulate mRNA levels of other genes and may regulate RNA structure. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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