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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-4
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-8-5
pubmed:abstractText
In female mammals, one of the two X chromosomes is inactivated to compensate for the difference in dosage of X-linked genes between males and females. X inactivation involves sequential alterations to the chromatin that ultimately lead to the transcriptional repression of genes on the X chromosome. Here, histone methylation and acetylation along X-linked genes are investigated by chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) of adult fibroblast cell lines. At PGK1 and HPRT, chromatin on the active X chromosome reveals H3 lysine 4 methylation and acetylation of histones H3 and H4. These modifications are absent on the repressed allele, which is marked by H3 lysine 9 methylation. On the expressed allele of XIST (on the inactive X chromosome), we found that H3 acetylation is confined to the promoter, whereas H3 lysine 4 methylation and H4 acetylation are present along the entire gene. On the repressed XIST allele, in contrast, the promoter and gene exhibit H3 lysine 9 methylation. At only 1.5 kb upstream of the XIST gene, chromatin on the inactive X chromosome has strongly reduced levels of H4 acetylation and is marked by both H3 lysine 9 and H3 lysine 4 methylation. These data demonstrate that patterns of histone methylation and acetylation are distinct along and upstream of XIST and suggest that the inactive X chromatin configuration occurs at a region close to the 5' end of the gene.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1424-859X
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2003 S. Karger AG, Basel
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
99
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
66-74
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Acetylation, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Alleles, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-DNA Methylation, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Dosage Compensation, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Genetic Linkage, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Histones, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Lysine, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Methylation, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Phosphoglycerate Kinase, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-RNA, Untranslated, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:12900547-X Chromosome
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Differential patterns of histone methylation and acetylation distinguish active and repressed alleles at X-linked genes.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Molecular Genetics, CNRS, Montpellier, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't