PUBLICATION
Transcriptional regulation of the stem cell leukemia gene (SCL) - comparative analysis of five vertebrate SCL loci
- Authors
- Gottgens, B., Barton, L.M., Chapman, M.A., Sinclair, A.M., Knudsen, B., Grafham, D., Gilbert, J.G., Rogers, J., Bentley, D.R., and Green, A.R.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-020514-2
- Date
- 2002
- Source
- Genome research 12(5): 749-759 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Rogers, Jane
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- 5' Untranslated Regions/genetics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors
- Cell Line
- Chickens
- Chromosomes, Artificial, P1 Bacteriophage/genetics
- Cloning, Molecular
- Conserved Sequence
- DNA-Binding Proteins/biosynthesis
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics*
- DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Exons/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/genetics*
- Genetic Markers/genetics
- Genetic Markers/physiology
- Humans
- Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell/genetics*
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Poly A/metabolism
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins*
- Rats
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Tetraodontiformes
- Transcription Factors/biosynthesis
- Transcription Factors/chemistry
- Transcription Factors/genetics*
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins*
- PubMed
- 11997341 Full text @ Genome Res.
Citation
Gottgens, B., Barton, L.M., Chapman, M.A., Sinclair, A.M., Knudsen, B., Grafham, D., Gilbert, J.G., Rogers, J., Bentley, D.R., and Green, A.R. (2002) Transcriptional regulation of the stem cell leukemia gene (SCL) - comparative analysis of five vertebrate SCL loci. Genome research. 12(5):749-759.
Abstract
The stem cell leukemia (SCL) gene encodes a bHLH transcription factor with a pivotal role in hematopoiesis and vasculogenesis and a pattern of expression that is highly conserved between mammals and zebrafish. Here we report the isolation and characterization of the zebrafish SCL locus together with the identification of three neighboring genes, IER5, MAP17, and MUPP1. This region spans 68 kb and comprises the longest zebrafish genomic sequence currently available for comparison with mammalian, chicken, and pufferfish sequences. Our data show conserved synteny between zebrafish and mammalian SCL and MAP17 loci, thus suggesting the likely genomic domain necessary for the conserved pattern of SCL expression. Long-range comparative sequence analysis/phylogenetic footprinting was used to identify noncoding conserved sequences representing candidate transcriptional regulatory elements. The SCL promoter/enhancer, exon 1, and the poly(A) region were highly conserved, but no homology to other known mouse SCL enhancers was detected in the zebrafish sequence. A combined homology/structure analysis of the poly(A) region predicted consistent structural features, suggesting a conserved functional role in mRNA regulation. Analysis of the SCL promoter/enhancer revealed five motifs, which were conserved from zebrafish to mammals, and each of which is essential for the appropriate pattern or level of SCL transcription
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping