Regulation of inflammation in diabetes: From genetics to epigenomics evidence
Background: Diabetes is one of the greatest public health challenges worldwide, and we still lack complementary approaches to significantly enhance the efficacy of preventive and therapeutic approaches.
Marc Diedisheim +5 more
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Genetic elements that control inflammatory gene expression are not fully elucidated. Here the authors conduct a multi-species analysis of chromatin landscape and NF-κB binding in response to the proinflammatory cytokine TNFα, finding that conserved NF-κB
Azad Alizada +11 more
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Assessment of de novo copy-number variations in Italian patients with schizophrenia: Detection of putative mutations involving regulatory enhancer elements [PDF]
Objectives: Variants appearing de novo in genes regulating key neurodevelopmental processes and/or in non-coding cis-regulatory elements (CREs), as enhancers, may increase the risk for schizophrenia. However, CREs involvement in schizophrenia needs to be
Bellomo, Antonello +51 more
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Long-range evolutionary constraints reveal cis-regulatory interactions on the human X chromosome. [PDF]
Enhancers can regulate the transcription of genes over long genomic distances. This is thought to lead to selection against genomic rearrangements within such regions that may disrupt this functional linkage.
Rinkwitz, S +72 more
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An E box comprises a positional sensor for regional differences in skeletal muscle gene expression and methylation [PDF]
To dissect the molecular mechanisms conferring positional information in skeletal muscles, we characterized the control elements responsible for the positionally restricted expression patterns of a muscle-specific transgene reporter, driven by regulatory
Hughes, Stephen H. +13 more
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Cooperativity of Glucocorticoid Response Elements Located Far Upstream of the Tyrosine Aminotransferase Gene [PDF]
Two glucocorticoid response elements (GREs) located 2.5 kb upstream of the transcription initiation site of the tyrosine aminotransferase gene were identified by gene transfer experiments and shown to bind to purified glucocorticoid receptor.
Strähle, Uwe +7 more
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Highly conserved elements discovered in vertebrates are present in non-syntenic loci of tunicates, act as enhancers and can be transcribed during development [PDF]
Co-option of cis-regulatory modules has been suggested as a mechanism for the evolution of expression sites during development. However, the extent and mechanisms involved in mobilization of cisregulatory modules remains elusive.
Meola, Nicola +54 more
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Transcription factor complex formation and chromatin fine structure alterations at the murine c-fms (CSF-1 receptor) locus during maturation of myeloid precursor cells [PDF]
Expression of the gene for the macrophage colony stimulating factor receptor (CSF-1R), c-fms, has been viewed as a hallmark of the commitment of multipotent precursor cells to macrophages.
Bonifer, Constanze +29 more
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ObjectiveThe risk loci for juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) consist of extended haplotypes that include functional elements in addition to canonical coding genes.
Kaiyu Jiang +5 more
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Role of cyclic AMP in the control of cell-specific gene expression [PDF]
Genes have to be expressed in specific cell types at appropriate times of development dependent on external signals. cAMP signaling occurs in all cells, thus raising the question of how this signal transduction pattern is integrated into mechanisms ...
Boshart, Michael +3 more
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