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Regulation of alphaA-crystallin via Pax6, c-Maf, CREB and a broad domain of lens-specific chromatin.


ABSTRACT: Pax6 and c-Maf regulate multiple stages of mammalian lens development. Here, we identified novel distal control regions (DCRs) of the alphaA-crystallin gene, a marker of lens fiber cell differentiation induced by FGF-signaling. DCR1 stimulated reporter gene expression in primary lens explants treated with FGF2 linking FGF-signaling with alphaA-crystallin synthesis. A DCR1/alphaA-crystallin promoter (including DCR2) coupled with EGFP virtually recapitulated the expression pattern of alphaA-crystallin in lens epithelium and fibers. In contrast, the DCR3/alphaA/EGFP reporter was expressed only in 'late' lens fibers. Chromatin immunoprecipitations showed binding of Pax6 to DCR1 and the alphaA-crystallin promoter in lens chromatin and demonstrated that high levels of alphaA-crystallin expression correlate with increased binding of c-Maf and CREB to the promoter and of CREB to DCR3, a broad domain of histone H3K9-hyperacetylation extending from DCR1 to DCR3, and increased abundance of chromatin remodeling enzymes Brg1 and Snf2h at the alphaA-crystallin locus. Our data demonstrate a novel mechanism of Pax6, c-Maf and CREB function, through regulation of chromatin-remodeling enzymes, and suggest a multistage model for the activation of alphaA-crystallin during lens differentiation.

SUBMITTER: Yang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1462985 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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