期刊
EMBO JOURNAL
卷 27, 期 21, 页码 2839-2850出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2008.214
关键词
cell cycle; chromatin; CTCF; nuclear organization; T cells
资金
- Dutch Cancer Society (KWF)
- European Science Foundation EUROCORES Programme EuroDYNA [ERAS-CT-2003-980409]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia
- Association for International Cancer Research (AICR)
The 11-zinc finger protein CCCTC-binding factor ( CTCF) is a highly conserved protein, involved in imprinting, longrange chromatin interactions and transcription. To investigate its function in vivo, we generated mice with a conditional Ctcf knockout allele. Consistent with a previous report, we find that ubiquitous ablation of the Ctcf gene results in early embryonic lethality. Tissue-specific inactivation of CTCF in thymocytes specifically hampers the differentiation of ab T cells and causes accumulation of late double-negative and immature single-positive cells in the thymus of mice. These cells are normally large and actively cycling, and contain elevated amounts of CTCF. In Ctcf knockout animals, however, these cells are small and blocked in the cell cycle due to increased expression of the cyclin-CDK inhibitors p21 and p27. Taken together, our results show that CTCF is required in a dose-dependent manner and is involved in cell cycle progression of ab T cells in the thymus. We propose that CTCF positively regulates cell growth in rapidly dividing thymocytes so that appropriate number of cells are generated before positive and negative selection in the thymus.
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