GSBS Student Publications
Title
The osteocalcin gene: a model for multiple parameters of skeletal-specific transcriptional control
Publication Date
1997-08-01
UMMS Affiliation
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; Department of Cell Biology
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
Influences of promoter regulatory elements that are responsive to basal and tissue-restricted transactivation factors, steroid hormones, growth factors and other physiologic mediators has provided the basis for understanding regulatory mechanisms contributing to developmental expression of osteocalcin, tissue specificity and biological activity (reviewed in [1-3]). These regulatory elements and cognate transcription factors support postproliferative transcriptional activation and steroid hormone (e.g. vitamin D) enhancement at the onset of extracellular matrix mineralization during osteoblast differentiation. Three parameters of nuclear structure contribute to osteocalcin gene transcriptional control. The linear representation of promoter elements provides competency for physiological responsiveness within the contexts of developmental as well as phenotype-dependent regulation. Chromatin structure and nucleosome organization reduce distances between independent regulatory elements providing a basis for integrating components of transcriptional control. The nuclear matrix supports gene expression by imposing physical constraints on chromatin related to three dimensional genomic organization. In addition, the nuclear matrix facilitates gene localization as well as the concentration and targeting of transcription factors. Several lines of evidence are presented which are consistent with involvement of multiple levels of nuclear architecture in tissue-specific gene expression during differentiation. Growth factor and steroid hormone responsive modifications in chromatin structure, nucleosome organization and the nuclear matrix are considered which influence transcription of the bone tissue-specific osteocalcin gene during progressive expression of the osteoblast phenotype.
Source
Mol Biol Rep. 1997 Aug;24(3):185-96.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Molecular biology reports
Related Resources
PubMed ID
9291092
Repository Citation
Stein, Gary S.; Lian, Jane B.; Van Wijnen, Andre J.; and Stein, Janet L., "The osteocalcin gene: a model for multiple parameters of skeletal-specific transcriptional control" (1997). GSBS Student Publications. 1171.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_sp/1171