Genes activated in the presence of an immunoglobulin enhancer or promoter are negatively regulated by a T-lymphoma cell line.

AUTOR(ES)

Zaller, D M

RESUMO

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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