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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-11-24
pubmed:abstractText
Nucleosomes positioned over promoters are usually inhibitory to protein binding and activity. We analyzed at the nucleotide level of resolution the nucleosomal organization of a distal, liver-specific enhancer in various mouse tissues and found that the enhancer exists in an array of three precisely positioned nucleosomes only in liver chromatin, where the enhancer is active. In vivo footprinting reveals that essential transcription factor-binding sites are occupied on apparent nucleosome surfaces, in one case leading to a perturbed nucleosomal structure. A similar nucleosomal array is generated with an in vitro chromatin assembly system in which nucleosome positioning is dependent upon binding to the enhancer of proteins related to hepatocyte nuclear factor 3. We suggest that certain transcription factors can organize nucleosomal structures that define an active enhancer element.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0092-8674
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
22
pubmed:volume
75
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
387-98
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Chromatin, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-DNA Modification Methylases, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Deoxyribonuclease I, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Drosophila, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Enhancer Elements, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Liver, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Macromolecular Substances, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Methylation, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Mice, Inbred C3H, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Micrococcal Nuclease, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Movement, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Nucleosomes, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Organ Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Serum Albumin, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Transcription, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:8402920-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
An active tissue-specific enhancer and bound transcription factors existing in a precisely positioned nucleosomal array.
pubmed:affiliation
Section of Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't