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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7343
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-4-22
pubmed:abstractText
X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) in female mammals allows dosage compensation for X-linked gene products between the sexes. The developmental regulation of this process has been extensively investigated in mice, where the X chromosome of paternal origin (Xp) is silenced during early embryogenesis owing to imprinted expression of the regulatory RNA, Xist (X-inactive specific transcript). Paternal XCI is reversed in the inner cell mass of the blastocyst and random XCI subsequently occurs in epiblast cells. Here we show that other eutherian mammals have very different strategies for initiating XCI. In rabbits and humans, the Xist homologue is not subject to imprinting and XCI begins later than in mice. Furthermore, Xist is upregulated on both X chromosomes in a high proportion of rabbit and human embryo cells, even in the inner cell mass. In rabbits, this triggers XCI on both X chromosomes in some cells. In humans, chromosome-wide XCI has not initiated even by the blastocyst stage, despite the upregulation of XIST. The choice of which X chromosome will finally become inactive thus occurs downstream of Xist upregulation in both rabbits and humans, unlike in mice. Our study demonstrates the remarkable diversity in XCI regulation and highlights differences between mammals in their requirement for dosage compensation during early embryogenesis.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1476-4687
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
21
pubmed:volume
472
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
370-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-6-24
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Biological Evolution, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Blastocyst, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Chromosomes, Mammalian, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Dosage Compensation, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Embryo, Mammalian, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Female, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Genes, X-Linked, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Genomic Imprinting, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Histones, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Male, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Mammals, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Parthenogenesis, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-RNA, Untranslated, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Rabbits, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Species Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-Up-Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-X Chromosome, pubmed-meshheading:21471966-X Chromosome Inactivation
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Eutherian mammals use diverse strategies to initiate X-chromosome inactivation during development.
pubmed:affiliation
Mammalian Developmental Epigenetics Group, Institut Curie, CNRS UMR 3215, INSERM U934, Paris 75248, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't