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HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
卷 9, 期 4, 页码 631-636出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/9.4.631
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL38655, R01 HL024415, HL-554350] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK 02467] Funding Source: Medline
Expression of a construct integrated at different genomic locations often varies because of position effects that have been subcategorized as stable (decreased level of expression) and variegating (decreased proportion of expressing cells). It is well established that locus control regions (LCRs) generally overcome position effects in transgenes, However, whether stable and variegated position effects are equally overcome by an intact LCR has not been determined, We report that single-copy yeast artificial chromosome transgenes containing an unmodified human beta-globin locus were not subject to detectable stable position effects but did undergo mild to severe variegating position effects at three of the four non-centromeric integration sites tested, We also find that, at a given integration site, the distance and the orientation of the LCR relative to the regulated gene contributes to the likelihood of variegating position effects, and can affect the magnitude of its transcriptional enhancement, DNase I hypersensitive site (HSS) formation varies with the proportion of expressing cells, not the level of gene expression, suggesting that silencing of the transgene is associated with a lack of HSS formation in the LCR region, We conclude that transcriptional enhancement and variegating position effects are caused by fundamentally different but interdependent mechanisms.
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