Nuclear transcripts of mouse heavy chain immunoglobulin genes contain only the expressed class of C-region sequences

Science ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 204 (4397) ◽  
pp. 1087-1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Marcu ◽  
U Schibler ◽  
R. Perry
1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 733-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Galibert ◽  
Joelle van Dooren ◽  
Isabelle Durand ◽  
Françoise Rousset ◽  
Royston Jefferis ◽  
...  

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 1932-1939 ◽  
Author(s):  
D M Zaller ◽  
H Yu ◽  
L A Eckhardt

The tissue-specific expression of immunoglobulin genes can be partially explained by a requirement for activating factors found only in B lymphocytes and their derivatives. However, loss of immunoglobulin expression upon fusion of an immunoglobulin-producing myeloma cell with a T lymphoma cell (BW5147) or fibroblast (L cell) suggests that negatively acting factors also play a role in the tissue specificity of immunoglobulin genes. Expression of a cloned immunoglobulin heavy-chain gene introduced into myeloma cells was suppressed after fusion of the myeloma transformants with BW5147. The presence of either the immunoglobulin heavy-chain enhancer or promoter conferred suppression, under similar conditions, upon a heterologous gene that is normally expressed in both B and T lymphocytes. These immunoglobulin heavy-chain gene control regions, or gene modifications induced by them, are subject to negative control by T-lymphocyte-derived factors.


Nature ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 281 (5732) ◽  
pp. 600-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blas Frangione ◽  
Edward C. Franklin

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1547-1553 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Matthias ◽  
D Baltimore

The transcription of immunoglobulin genes is controlled by variable region promoters and by enhancers, both of which are lymphoid specific. Because immunoglobulin genes are subject to an extremely complex regulation, we anticipated that there might be additional control elements for these genes. We therefore sought additional enhancers and demonstrate here that there is indeed another weak transcriptional enhancer just 3' to the mouse alpha constant region. This novel immunoglobulin enhancer is lymphoid specific and at two positions can bind members of the Oct family of transcription factors.


1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. Rabbitts ◽  
P. H. Hamlyn ◽  
G. Matthyssens ◽  
B. A. Roe

The multiplicity of heavy-chain variable-region (VH) genes in mouse and human DNA has been estimated using a mouse heavy- (H) chain cDNA clone. We found about 10 hybridization components in mouse DNA and about 20 components in human DNA. Cross-hybridization studies of variable region (V) genes indicate that these components represent the numbers of genes within the VH subgroups of each of these species. The arrangement and rearrangement of the H-chain γ subclasses have been studied in order to assess possible mechanisms of the H-chain switch. Evidence has been found for rearrangement events involving the γ2a and γ2b constant-region (CH) genes in DNA from cells making IgG2a and IgG2b respectively. In addition we found that cells making IgG2a lack detectable genes for γ1 and γ2b. Both sets of observations are discussed in relation to H-chain diversity and the switch.


1979 ◽  
pp. 393-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Davis ◽  
P. Early ◽  
K. Calame ◽  
D. Livant ◽  
L. Hood

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 1932-1939
Author(s):  
D M Zaller ◽  
H Yu ◽  
L A Eckhardt

The tissue-specific expression of immunoglobulin genes can be partially explained by a requirement for activating factors found only in B lymphocytes and their derivatives. However, loss of immunoglobulin expression upon fusion of an immunoglobulin-producing myeloma cell with a T lymphoma cell (BW5147) or fibroblast (L cell) suggests that negatively acting factors also play a role in the tissue specificity of immunoglobulin genes. Expression of a cloned immunoglobulin heavy-chain gene introduced into myeloma cells was suppressed after fusion of the myeloma transformants with BW5147. The presence of either the immunoglobulin heavy-chain enhancer or promoter conferred suppression, under similar conditions, upon a heterologous gene that is normally expressed in both B and T lymphocytes. These immunoglobulin heavy-chain gene control regions, or gene modifications induced by them, are subject to negative control by T-lymphocyte-derived factors.


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