Regulation of c-myc and immunoglobulin kappa gene transcription by promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II.
Curr Top Microbiol Immunol
; 246: 225-31, 1999.
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in En
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| ID: mdl-10396060
ABSTRACT
In normal cells, the proto-oncogene c-myc is regulated by promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II (pol II). In Burkitt lymphoma cells, c-myc is chromosomally translocated to one of the three immunoglobulin (Ig) gene loci and its transcription is driven constitutively by Ig enhancers. Promoter-proximal pausing of pol II is abolished on the translocated c-myc allele. This raised the question whether induction of Ig gene transcription also involves activation of promoter-proximal paused pol II. Here we have studied the transcriptional activation of a functionally rearranged Ig kappa gene in the mouse pre B cell line 70Z/3. We show that pol II pauses approximately 50 bp downstream of the transcriptional start site of the uninduced Ig kappa gene.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
RNA Polymerase II
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Genes, myc
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Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains
Limits:
Animals
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Curr Top Microbiol Immunol
Year:
1999
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Germany