The chicken lysozyme chromatin domain contains a second, widely expressed gene

AUTOR(ES)

Chong, Suyinn

FONTE

Oxford University Press

RESUMO

The chicken lysozyme (cLys) locus has been shown to contain all of the cis-elements necessary for position-independent and tissue-specific expression entirely within a 24-kb region defined by general DNase I sensitivity and flanked by matrix attachment regions. As such, it has been viewed as an example of a functional chromatin domain, which is structurally and functionally isolated from neighbouring chromatin. We report here the identification and characterisation of the chicken glioma-amplified sequence (cGas41) locus, which though widely expressed, is contained entirely within the lysozyme chromatin domain. The cGas41 transcript encodes a putative transcription factor, starts 207 bp downstream of the cLys polyadenylation site and is preceded by a CpG island with proposed dual promoter/origin function. The location and differential expression of cGas41 compels re-evaluation of the accumulated literature on the lysozyme domain, and represents an example of two unrelated, differentially expressed vertebrate genes coexisting in the same functional chromatin domain.

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