Regulation of human histone gene expression: transcriptional and posttranscriptional control in the coupling of histone messenger RNA stability with DNA replication

Biochemistry ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 26 (19) ◽  
pp. 6178-6187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa L. Baumbach ◽  
Gary S. Stein ◽  
Janet L. Stein
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Dna Replication ◽  
Messenger Rna ◽  
Rna Stability ◽  
Histone Gene ◽  
Posttranscriptional Control ◽  
Histone Gene Expression

The relationship between human histone gene expression and DNA replication

BioEssays ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 202-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary S. Stein ◽  
Janet L. Stein
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Dna Replication ◽  
Histone Gene ◽  
Histone Gene Expression ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Modelling Robust Feedback Control Mechanisms That Ensure Reliable Coordination of Histone Gene Expression with DNA Replication

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. e0165848
Author(s):  
Andrea Christopher ◽  
Heike Hameister ◽  
Holly Corrigall ◽  
Oliver Ebenhöh ◽  
Berndt Müller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Dna Replication ◽  
Feedback Control ◽  
Histone Gene ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Histone Gene Expression

scholarly journals Monocistronic transcription is the physiological mechanism of sea urchin embryonic histone gene expression.

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 661-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Mauron ◽  
S Levy ◽  
G Childs ◽  
L Kedes
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Sea Urchin ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Messenger Rna ◽  
Physiological Mechanism ◽  
Histone Gene ◽  
Histone Genes ◽  
Histone Gene Expression

We have examined histone gene expression during the early stages of sea urchin embryogenesis. The five histone genes expressed at that time are contained in tandem repetitive segments. It has been suggested that adjacent coding regions and their intervening spacer sequences are transcribed into large polycistronic messenger ribonucleic acid (RNA) precursors. We have subcloned into pBR322 deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences mapping either in the coding region, the 5' spacer, or the 3' spacer of the H2B histone gene. These clones were used to produce radioiodinated hybridization probes. We measured the steady-state quantity of H2B messenger RNA as well as spacer-specific RNA in the total RNA from embryos taken at various stages of development from fertilization to hatching of blastulae (0 to 22 h post-fertilization). Small amounts of RNA hybridizing to both spacer probes could be found. However, we show that these RNAs form mismatched hybrids with the spacer DNA and therefore cannot originate from the spacers present in the histone genes. We conclude that there is no detectable transcription of the spacer regions on either side of the H2B histone gene. The detection limit for RNA complementary to the 5' spacer sequence corresponds to a maximum of about three RNA molecules per cell, an amount shown to be far less than the projected steady-state pool size of a putative polycistronic transcript, if such a precursor were to be the obligatory transcript of the histone genes. (This conclusion was derived by using the known rates of production of H2B mRNA throughout early development [R. E. Maxson and F. H. Wilt, Dev. Biol., in press].) The physiologically relevant transcript of the histone genes in early development is therefore monocistronic and probably identical to the messenger RNA itself.

Are multiple checkpoint mediators involved in a checkpoint linking histone gene expression with DNA replication?

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 1369-1371 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Müller ◽  
J. Blackburn ◽  
C. Feijoo ◽  
X. Zhao ◽  
C. Smythe
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Dna Replication ◽  
Transcriptional Control ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
S Phase ◽  
Histone Gene ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Histone Genes ◽  
Checkpoint Kinases ◽  
Histone Gene Expression

In metazoans, accurate replication of chromosomes is ensured by the coupling of DNA synthesis to the synthesis of histone proteins. Expression of replication-dependent histone genes is restricted to S-phase by a combination of cell cycle-regulated transcriptional and post-transcriptional control mechanisms and is linked to DNA replication by a poorly understood mechanism involving checkpoint kinases [Su, Gao, Schneider, Helt, Weiss, O'Reilly, Bohmann and Zhao (2004) EMBO J. 23, 1133–1143; Kaygun and Marzluff (2005) Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 12, 794–800]. Here we propose a model for the molecular mechanisms that link these two important processes within S-phase, and propose roles for multiple checkpoints in this mechanism.

The control of histone gene expression

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 880-885 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander M.J. Rattray ◽  
Berndt Müller
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Cell Cycle ◽  
Dna Replication ◽  
Histone Gene ◽  
Transcriptional Level ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Histone Proteins ◽  
Histone Gene Expression ◽  
Replication Control

Histone proteins are essential for the packaging of DNA into chromosomes. Histone gene expression is cell-cycle-regulated and coupled to DNA replication. Control of histone gene expression occurs at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level and ensures that a fine balance between histone abundance and DNA replication is maintained for the correct packaging of newly replicated DNA into chromosomes. In the present paper, we review histone gene expression, highlighting the control mechanisms and key molecules involved in this process.

scholarly journals Monocistronic transcription is the physiological mechanism of sea urchin embryonic histone gene expression

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 661-671
Author(s):  
A Mauron ◽  
S Levy ◽  
G Childs ◽  
L Kedes
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Sea Urchin ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Messenger Rna ◽  
Physiological Mechanism ◽  
Histone Gene ◽  
Histone Genes ◽  
Histone Gene Expression

We have examined histone gene expression during the early stages of sea urchin embryogenesis. The five histone genes expressed at that time are contained in tandem repetitive segments. It has been suggested that adjacent coding regions and their intervening spacer sequences are transcribed into large polycistronic messenger ribonucleic acid (RNA) precursors. We have subcloned into pBR322 deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences mapping either in the coding region, the 5' spacer, or the 3' spacer of the H2B histone gene. These clones were used to produce radioiodinated hybridization probes. We measured the steady-state quantity of H2B messenger RNA as well as spacer-specific RNA in the total RNA from embryos taken at various stages of development from fertilization to hatching of blastulae (0 to 22 h post-fertilization). Small amounts of RNA hybridizing to both spacer probes could be found. However, we show that these RNAs form mismatched hybrids with the spacer DNA and therefore cannot originate from the spacers present in the histone genes. We conclude that there is no detectable transcription of the spacer regions on either side of the H2B histone gene. The detection limit for RNA complementary to the 5' spacer sequence corresponds to a maximum of about three RNA molecules per cell, an amount shown to be far less than the projected steady-state pool size of a putative polycistronic transcript, if such a precursor were to be the obligatory transcript of the histone genes. (This conclusion was derived by using the known rates of production of H2B mRNA throughout early development [R. E. Maxson and F. H. Wilt, Dev. Biol., in press].) The physiologically relevant transcript of the histone genes in early development is therefore monocistronic and probably identical to the messenger RNA itself.

scholarly journals Distinct replication-independent and -dependent phases of histone gene expression during the Physarum cell cycle.

1987 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 1933-1937 ◽  
Author(s):  
J J Carrino ◽  
V Kueng ◽  
R Braun ◽  
T G Laffler
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Cell Cycle ◽  
Dna Replication ◽  
Dna Synthesis ◽  
S Phase ◽  
Histone Gene ◽  
Histone Mrna ◽  
Histone Gene Expression ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
G2 Phase

During the S phase of the cell cycle, histone gene expression and DNA replication are tightly coupled. In mitotically synchronous plasmodia of the myxomycete Physarum polycephalum, which has no G1 phase, histone mRNA synthesis begins in mid-G2 phase. Although histone gene transcription is activated in the absence of significant DNA synthesis, our data demonstrate that histone gene expression became tightly coupled to DNA replication once the S phase began. There was a transition from the replication-independent phase to the replication-dependent phase of histone gene expression. During the first phase, histone mRNA synthesis appears to be under direct cell cycle control; it was not coupled to DNA replication. This allowed a pool of histone mRNA to accumulate in late G2 phase, in anticipation of future demand. The second phase began at the end of mitosis, when the S phase began, and expression became homeostatically coupled to DNA replication. This homeostatic control required continuing protein synthesis, since cycloheximide uncoupled transcription from DNA synthesis. Nuclear run-on assays suggest that in P. polycephalum this coupling occurs at the level of transcription. While histone gene transcription appears to be directly switched on in mid-G2 phase and off at the end of the S phase by cell cycle regulators, only during the S phase was the level of transcription balanced with the rate of DNA synthesis.

Distinct replication-independent and -dependent phases of histone gene expression during the Physarum cell cycle

1987 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 1933-1937
Author(s):  
J J Carrino ◽  
V Kueng ◽  
R Braun ◽  
T G Laffler
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Cell Cycle ◽  
Dna Replication ◽  
Dna Synthesis ◽  
S Phase ◽  
Histone Gene ◽  
Histone Mrna ◽  
Histone Gene Expression ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
G2 Phase

During the S phase of the cell cycle, histone gene expression and DNA replication are tightly coupled. In mitotically synchronous plasmodia of the myxomycete Physarum polycephalum, which has no G1 phase, histone mRNA synthesis begins in mid-G2 phase. Although histone gene transcription is activated in the absence of significant DNA synthesis, our data demonstrate that histone gene expression became tightly coupled to DNA replication once the S phase began. There was a transition from the replication-independent phase to the replication-dependent phase of histone gene expression. During the first phase, histone mRNA synthesis appears to be under direct cell cycle control; it was not coupled to DNA replication. This allowed a pool of histone mRNA to accumulate in late G2 phase, in anticipation of future demand. The second phase began at the end of mitosis, when the S phase began, and expression became homeostatically coupled to DNA replication. This homeostatic control required continuing protein synthesis, since cycloheximide uncoupled transcription from DNA synthesis. Nuclear run-on assays suggest that in P. polycephalum this coupling occurs at the level of transcription. While histone gene transcription appears to be directly switched on in mid-G2 phase and off at the end of the S phase by cell cycle regulators, only during the S phase was the level of transcription balanced with the rate of DNA synthesis.

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