GSBS Student Publications
Title
Epigenetic landscape during osteoblastogenesis defines a differentiation-dependent Runx2 promoter region
GSBS Program
Cell Biology
Publication Date
2014-10-15
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Cell Biology
Abstract
Runx2 is a developmentally regulated gene in vertebrates and is essential for bone formation and skeletal homeostasis. The induction of runx2-P1 isoform transcripts is a hallmark of early osteoblastogenesis. Although previous in vitro studies have defined a minimal Runx2-P1 promoter sequence with well-characterized functional elements, several lines of evidence suggest that transcription of the Runx2-P1 isoform relies on elements that extend beyond the previously defined P1 promoter boundaries. In this study, we examined Runx2-P1 transcriptional regulation in a cellular in vivo context during early osteoblastogenesis of MC3T3-E1 cultures and BMSCs induced towards the bone lineage by multi-layered analysis of the Runx2-P1 gene promoter using the following methodologies: 1) sequence homology among several mammalian species, 2) DNaseI hypersensitivity coupled with massively parallel sequencing (DNase-seq), and 3) chromatin immunoprecipitation of activating histone modifications coupled with massively parallel sequencing (ChIP-seq). These epigenetic features have allowed the demarcation of boundaries that redefine the minimal Runx2-P1 promoter to include a 336-bp sequence that mediates responsiveness to osteoblast differentiation. We also find that an additional level of control is contributed by a regulatory region in the 5'-UTR of Runx2-P1.
Keywords
DNase hypersensitivity, Gene regulation, Histone modification, Osteoblast differentiation, Runx2-P1
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.gene.2014.05.044
Source
Gene. 2014 Oct 15;550(1):1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2014.05.044. Epub 2014 Jun 2. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Gene
Related Resources
PubMed ID
24881813
Repository Citation
Tai PW, Wu H, Gordon JA, Whitfield TW, Barutcu AR, Van Wijnen AJ, Lian JB, Stein GS, Stein JL. (2014). Epigenetic landscape during osteoblastogenesis defines a differentiation-dependent Runx2 promoter region. GSBS Student Publications. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2014.05.044. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_sp/2008