Reizis Boris, Leder Philip
Department of Genetics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Genes Dev. 2002 Feb 1;16(3):295-300. doi: 10.1101/gad.960702.
The Notch signaling pathway regulates the commitment and early development of T lymphocytes. We studied Notch-mediated induction of the pre-T cell receptor alpha (pTa) gene, a T-cell-specific transcriptional target of Notch. The pTa enhancer was activated by Notch signaling and contained binding sites for its nuclear effector, CSL. Mutation of the CSL-binding sites abolished enhancer induction by Notch and delayed the up-regulation of pTa transgene expression during T cell lineage commitment. These results show a direct mechanism of stage- and tissue-specific gene induction by the mammalian Notch/CSL signaling pathway.
Notch信号通路调节T淋巴细胞的定向分化和早期发育。我们研究了Notch介导的前T细胞受体α(pTa)基因的诱导,pTa基因是Notch的T细胞特异性转录靶点。pTa增强子被Notch信号激活,并含有其核效应因子CSL的结合位点。CSL结合位点的突变消除了Notch对增强子的诱导作用,并延迟了T细胞谱系定向分化过程中pTa转基因表达的上调。这些结果显示了哺乳动物Notch/CSL信号通路对阶段和组织特异性基因诱导的直接机制。