Imprinted Silencing of Slc22a2 and Slc22a3 Does Not Need Transcriptional Overlap Between Igf2r and Air

Overview

Journal EMBO J

Specialties Biotechnology
Molecular Biology

Date 2003 Jul 11

PMID 12853484

Citations 33

Authors

Frank Sleutels

Grace Tjon

Thomas Ludwig

Denise P Barlow

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Abstract

Silencing of the paternal allele of three imprinted genes (Igf2r, Slc22a2 and Slc22a3) requires cis expression of the Air RNA that overlaps the promoter of one of them (Igf2r). Air is a non-coding RNA whose mode of action is unknown. We tested the role of the Igf2r promoter and the role of transcriptional overlap between Igf2r and Air in silencing in this cluster. We analyzed imprinted expression in mice in which the Igf2r promoter is replaced by a thymidine kinase promoter that preserves a transcription overlap with Air, and in mice with a deleted Igf2r promoter that lack any transcriptional overlap with Air. Imprinted silencing of Air, Slc22a2 and Slc22a3 is maintained by the replacement promoter and also in the absence of transcriptional overlap with Air. These results exclude a role for the Igf2r promoter and for transcriptional overlap between Igf2r and Air in silencing Air, Slc22a2 and Slc22a3. Although these results do not completely exclude a role for a double-stranded RNA silencing mechanism, they do allow the possibility that the Air RNA has intrinsic cis silencing properties.

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