Publication Date:
2011-09-13
Description:
Immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) variable region exons are assembled from V(H), D and J(H) gene segments in developing B lymphocytes. Within the 2.7-megabase mouse Igh locus, V(D)J recombination is regulated to ensure specific and diverse antibody repertoires. Here we report in mice a key Igh V(D)J recombination regulatory region, termed intergenic control region 1 (IGCR1), which lies between the V(H) and D clusters. Functionally, IGCR1 uses CTCF looping/insulator factor-binding elements and, correspondingly, mediates Igh loops containing distant enhancers. IGCR1 promotes normal B-cell development and balances antibody repertoires by inhibiting transcription and rearrangement of D(H)-proximal V(H) gene segments and promoting rearrangement of distal V(H) segments. IGCR1 maintains ordered and lineage-specific V(H)(D)J(H) recombination by suppressing V(H) joining to D segments not joined to J(H) segments, and V(H) to DJ(H) joins in thymocytes, respectively. IGCR1 is also required for feedback regulation and allelic exclusion of proximal V(H)-to-DJ(H) recombination. Our studies elucidate a long-sought Igh V(D)J recombination control region and indicate a new role for the generally expressed CTCF protein.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3342812/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3342812/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Guo, Chunguang -- Yoon, Hye Suk -- Franklin, Andrew -- Jain, Suvi -- Ebert, Anja -- Cheng, Hwei-Ling -- Hansen, Erica -- Despo, Orion -- Bossen, Claudia -- Vettermann, Christian -- Bates, Jamie G -- Richards, Nicholas -- Myers, Darienne -- Patel, Harin -- Gallagher, Michael -- Schlissel, Mark S -- Murre, Cornelis -- Busslinger, Meinrad -- Giallourakis, Cosmas C -- Alt, Frederick W -- AI40227/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- CA054198-20/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- K08 AI070839/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P30 DK043351/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI020047/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI020047-27/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI020047-28/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI020047-29/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI20047/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL48702/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R37 AI040227/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- T32 CA009151/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Sep 11;477(7365):424-30. doi: 10.1038/nature10495.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Children's Hospital, The Immune Disease Institute, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21909113" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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B-Lymphocytes/cytology/metabolism
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Cell Lineage/genetics
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Chromosomes, Mammalian/genetics/metabolism
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DNA, Intergenic/*genetics
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Enhancer Elements, Genetic/genetics
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Feedback, Physiological
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Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Heavy Chain/*genetics
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Germ Cells/metabolism
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Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/genetics
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Immunoglobulin Variable Region/genetics
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Mice
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Mutation/genetics
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Recombination, Genetic/*genetics
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Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid/*genetics
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Repressor Proteins/*metabolism
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Thymus Gland/cytology
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Transcription, Genetic/genetics
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VDJ Exons/*genetics
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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