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PLoS One ; 6(7): e22001, 2011.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21760943

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BACKGROUND: Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is the most common form of hereditary ataxia characterized by the presence of a GAA trinucleotide repeat expansion within the first intron of the FXN gene. The expansion inhibits FXN gene expression resulting in an insufficiency of frataxin protein. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDING: In this study, computational analyses were performed on the 21.3 kb region upstream of exon 1 of the human FXN gene and orthologs from other species in order to identify conserved non-coding DNA sequences with potential regulatory functions. The conserved non-coding regions identified were individually analyzed in two complementing assay systems, a conventional luciferase reporter system and a novel Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC)-based genomic reporter. The BAC system allows the evaluation of gene expression to be made in the context of its entire genomic locus and preserves the normal location and spacing of many regulatory elements which may be positioned over large distances from the initiation codon of the gene. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: The two approaches were used to identify a region of 17 bp located approximately 4.9 kb upstream of the first exon of the FXN gene that plays an important role in FXN gene expression. Modulation of FXN gene expression was found to be mediated by the action of the Oct-1 transcription factor at this site. A better understanding of cis-acting regulatory elements that control FXN gene expression has the potential to develop new strategies for the upregulation of the FXN gene as a therapy for FRDA.


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Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Proteínas de Ligação ao Ferro/genética , Pareamento de Bases/genética , Sequência de Bases , Sítios de Ligação , Cromossomos Artificiais Bacterianos/genética , Biologia Computacional , Sequência Conservada/genética , DNA/genética , DNA Intergênico , Genes Reporter/genética , Humanos , Proteínas de Ligação ao Ferro/metabolismo , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Fator 1 de Transcrição de Octâmero/metabolismo , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas/genética , Deleção de Sequência/genética , Frataxina
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