Takada S, Obinata M
Department of Cell Biology, Research Institute for Tuberculosis and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai.
Jpn J Cancer Res. 1991 Apr;82(4):376-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1991.tb01858.x.
To investigate the molecular mechanism of regulation of differentiation by c-Myc, we examined the acquisition of DNase I hypersensitivity by beta-globin chromatin in an MEL cell transformant (38-2) in which the c-myc gene was placed under the control of a metallothionein gene promoter. Of the three DNase I hypersensitive sites around the beta-globin gene which were detected in MEL cells after DMSO treatment, the appearance of a specific DNase I hypersensitive site near the promoter was greatly reduced by the overexpression of c-Myc. This result suggests that c-Myc regulates beta-globin expression by interfering with the establishment of an active chromatin conformation around the beta-globin gene.
为了研究c-Myc调控分化的分子机制,我们检测了金属硫蛋白基因启动子控制下的c-myc基因的MEL细胞转化体(38-2)中β-珠蛋白染色质对DNase I超敏性的获得情况。在DMSO处理后的MEL细胞中检测到的β-珠蛋白基因周围的三个DNase I超敏位点中,启动子附近一个特定的DNase I超敏位点的出现因c-Myc的过表达而大大减少。这一结果表明,c-Myc通过干扰β-珠蛋白基因周围活性染色质构象的建立来调控β-珠蛋白的表达。