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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-6-4
pubmed:abstractText
The transcription of individual genes is determined by combinatorial interactions between DNA-binding transcription factors. The current challenge is to understand how such combinatorial interactions regulate broad genetic programs that underlie cellular functions and disease. The transcription factors Hnf1alpha and Hnf4alpha control pancreatic islet beta-cell function and growth, and mutations in their genes cause closely related forms of diabetes. We have now exploited genetic epistasis to examine how Hnf1alpha and Hnf4alpha functionally interact in pancreatic islets. Expression profiling in islets from either Hnf1a(+/-) or pancreas-specific Hnf4a mutant mice showed that the two transcription factors regulate a strikingly similar set of genes. We integrated expression and genomic binding studies and show that the shared transcriptional phenotype of these two mutant models is linked to common direct targets, rather than to known effects of Hnf1alpha on Hnf4a gene transcription. Epistasis analysis with transcriptomes of single- and double-mutant islets revealed that Hnf1alpha and Hnf4alpha regulate common targets synergistically. Hnf1alpha binding in Hnf4a-deficient islets was decreased in selected targets, but remained unaltered in others, thus suggesting that the mechanisms for synergistic regulation are gene-specific. These findings provide an in vivo strategy to study combinatorial gene regulation and reveal how Hnf1alpha and Hnf4alpha control a common islet-cell regulatory program that is defective in human monogenic diabetes.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1553-7404
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
e1000970
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-3-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Epistasis of transcriptomes reveals synergism between transcriptional activators Hnf1alpha and Hnf4alpha.
pubmed:affiliation
Genomic Programming of Beta-Cells Laboratory, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't