Transcriptional inhibition of the murine erythropoietin receptor gene by an upstream repetitive element.
AUTOR(ES)
Youssoufian, H
RESUMO
Transcription of the murine erythropoietin receptor (EpoR) gene is inhibited by a novel repetitive element that is located upstream of the EpoR promoter. Reporter gene studies reveal that the inhibitory effect is both distance and orientation dependent. This element is a member of a family of repetitive elements specific to rodents and is present at approximately 10(5) copies per mouse genome. It encodes approximately 500- to 900-bp-long transcripts in both erythroid and nonerythroid cells. RNase protection analysis with a probe from the 5' flanking murine EpoR gene reveals that the direction of transcription is in the sense orientation, relative to the downstream EpoR gene. We suggest that transcriptional inhibition of the EpoR promoter is mediated by read-through transcripts originating in the upstream repetitive element and that this effect may contribute to the basal level of transcription of the murine EpoR gene in erythroid cells.
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