Promoter, enhancer and silencer elements regulate rearrangement of an immunoglobulin transgene.
AUTOR(ES)
Lauster, R
RESUMO
The chicken Ig lambda light chain locus is composed of a single V gene closely linked (1.8 kb) to a single J-C unit in its natural configuration. In mice transgenic for this locus, the transgene becomes rearranged in B cells and to a much lesser extent in T cells. Modifications were introduced in the transgene in order to characterize elements which target the recombinase to the Ig loci. In the absence of either the promoter or the enhancer located 3' of C lambda, rearrangement of the transgene is reduced 20- to 100-fold. Moreover, rearrangement is increased 5-fold when the DNA segment between V lambda and J lambda ('Uo segment'), which is deleted during the joining process, is replaced by a neutral DNA segment of equal length. The Uo segment behaved as a strong transcriptional silencer when tested in a CAT assay in vitro. Control transgenic mice harbouring only the two 3 bp mutations that introduced restriction sites at both ends of the Uo segment to allow for its replacement were also analysed. Rearrangement was reduced 10- to 100-fold in B cells from such transgenic lines. A model is proposed whereby the sites of these two mutations would function by counteracting transiently the repressing effect of the silencer, thus giving access of the chicken light chain locus to the recombinase.
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