Publication Date:
2000-11-10
Description:
Reciprocal gene activation and restriction during cell type differentiation from a common lineage is a hallmark of mammalian organogenesis. A key question, then, is whether a critical transcriptional activator of cell type-specific gene targets can also restrict expression of the same genes in other cell types. Here, we show that whereas the pituitary-specific POU domain factor Pit-1 activates growth hormone gene expression in one cell type, the somatotrope, it restricts its expression from a second cell type, the lactotrope. This distinction depends on a two-base pair spacing in accommodation of the bipartite POU domains on a conserved growth hormone promoter site. The allosteric effect on Pit-1, in combination with other DNA binding factors, results in the recruitment of a corepressor complex, including nuclear receptor corepressor N-CoR, which, unexpectedly, is required for active long-term repression of the growth hormone gene in lactotropes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Scully, K M -- Jacobson, E M -- Jepsen, K -- Lunyak, V -- Viadiu, H -- Carriere, C -- Rose, D W -- Hooshmand, F -- Aggarwal, A K -- Rosenfeld, M G -- R01 DK18477/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK54802/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM49327/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Nov 10;290(5494):1127-31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11073444" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Allosteric Regulation
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Animals
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Base Sequence
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Binding Sites
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Cell Line
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Conserved Sequence
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Crystallization
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DNA/*metabolism
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DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Female
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*Gene Expression Regulation
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Genes, Reporter
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Growth Hormone/*genetics
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Male
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Mice
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Mice, Transgenic
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Nuclear Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Nuclear Receptor Co-Repressor 1
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Pituitary Gland/cytology/*metabolism
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Prolactin/*genetics
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Promoter Regions, Genetic
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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Rats
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Repressor Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Transcription Factor Pit-1
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Transcription Factors/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Transcriptional Activation
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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