PUBLICATION
Identification of distal cis-regulatory elements at the mouse mitoferrin loci using zebrafish transgenesis
- Authors
- Amigo, J.D., Yu, M., Troadec, M.B., Gwynn, B., Cooney, J.D., Lambert, A.J., Chi, N.C., Weiss, M.J., Peters, L.L., Kaplan, J., Cantor, A.B., and Paw, B.H.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-110124-10
- Date
- 2011
- Source
- Molecular and cellular biology 31(7): 1344-56 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Amigo, Julio, Paw, Barry
- Keywords
- blood, erythropoiesis, GATA-factors, heart, slc25 solute carriers
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- GATA1 Transcription Factor/metabolism
- Genome/genetics
- Transcription Factors/metabolism
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Genetic Loci/genetics*
- Erythropoiesis/genetics
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics*
- Binding Sites
- Transcription, Genetic
- Membrane Transport Proteins/genetics*
- Membrane Transport Proteins/metabolism
- Base Sequence
- Gene Transfer Techniques*
- Mice
- Protein Binding
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic/genetics
- Base Pairing/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Chromatin Immunoprecipitation
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism
- Heart/embryology
- Genes, Reporter
- PubMed
- 21248200 Full text @ Mol. Cell. Biol.
Citation
Amigo, J.D., Yu, M., Troadec, M.B., Gwynn, B., Cooney, J.D., Lambert, A.J., Chi, N.C., Weiss, M.J., Peters, L.L., Kaplan, J., Cantor, A.B., and Paw, B.H. (2011) Identification of distal cis-regulatory elements at the mouse mitoferrin loci using zebrafish transgenesis. Molecular and cellular biology. 31(7):1344-56.
Abstract
Mitoferrin1 (Mfrn1, Slc25a37) and Mitoferrin2 (Mfrn2, Slc25a28) function as essential mitochondrial iron importers for heme and Fe/S cluster biogenesis. A genetic deficiency of Mfrn1 results in a profound hypochromic anemia in vertebrate species. To map the cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) that control expression of the Mfrn genes, we utilized genome-wide chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) datasets for the major erythroid transcription factor GATA-1. We identified the CRMs that faithfully drive the expression of Mfrn1 during blood and heart development and Mfrn2 ubiquitously. Through in vivo analyses of the Mfrn-CRMs in zebrafish and mouse, we demonstrate their functional and evolutionary conservation. Using knockdowns with morpholinos and cell sorting analysis in transgenic zebrafish embryos, we show that GATA-1 directly regulates the expression of Mfrn1. Mutagenesis of individual GATA-1 Binding cis-Elements (GBE) demonstrated that at least two of the three GBE within this CRM are functionally required for GATA-mediated transcription of Mfrn1. Furthermore, ChIP assays demonstrate switching from GATA-2 to GATA-1 at these elements during erythroid maturation. Our results provide new insights into the genetic regulation of mitochondrial function and iron homeostasis and more generally, illustrate the utility of genome-wide ChIP analysis combined with zebrafish transgenesis for identifying long-range transcriptional enhancers that regulate tissue development.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping