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Promoters Of The Murine Embryonic Β-Like Globin Genes Ey And Βh1 Do Not Compete For Interaction With The Β-Globin Locus Control Region, Xiao Hu, Michael Bulger, Julia N. Roach, Susan K. Eszterhas, Emmanuel Olivier, Eric Bouhassira, Mark Groudine, Steven Fiering Feb 2003

Promoters Of The Murine Embryonic Β-Like Globin Genes Ey And Βh1 Do Not Compete For Interaction With The Β-Globin Locus Control Region, Xiao Hu, Michael Bulger, Julia N. Roach, Susan K. Eszterhas, Emmanuel Olivier, Eric Bouhassira, Mark Groudine, Steven Fiering

Dartmouth Scholarship

Mammalian β-globin loci contain multiple β-like genes that are expressed at different times during development. The murine β-globin locus contains two genes expressed during the embryo stage, Ey and βh1, and two genes expressed at both the fetal and postnatal stages, β-major and β-minor. Studies of transgenic human β-like globin loci in mice have suggested that expression of one gene at the locus will suppress expression of other genes at the locus. To test this hypothesis we produced mouse lines with deletions of either the Ey or βh1 promoter in the endogenous murine β-globin locus. Promoter deletion eliminated expression of …


Sart, A Repressor Of Α-Hemolysin In Staphylococcus Aureus, Katherine A. Schmidt, Adhar C. Manna, Steven Gill, Ambrose L. Cheung Aug 2001

Sart, A Repressor Of Α-Hemolysin In Staphylococcus Aureus, Katherine A. Schmidt, Adhar C. Manna, Steven Gill, Ambrose L. Cheung

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In searching the Staphylococcus aureus genome, we found several homologs to SarA. One of these genes, sarT, codes for a basic protein with 118 residues and a predicted molecular size of 16,096 Da. Northern blot analysis revealed that the expression of sarT was repressed by sarA and agr. An insertion sarT mutant generated in S. aureus RN6390 and 8325-4 backgrounds revealed minimal effect on the expression of sarR and sarA. The RNAIII level was notably increased in the sarT mutant, particularly in postexponential-phase cells, while the augmentative effect on RNAII was less. SarT repressed the expression of alpha-hemolysin, as determined …