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Mol. Cell. Biol., 03 1997, 1607-1614, Vol 17, No. 3
Copyright © 1997, American Society for Microbiology

A globin enhancer acts by increasing the proportion of erythrocytes expressing a linked transgene

HG Sutherland, DI Martin and E Whitelaw
Department of Biochemistry, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Enhancer elements have been shown to affect the probability of a gene establishing an active transcriptional state and suppress the silencing of reporter genes in cell lines, but their effect in transgenic mice has been obscured by the use of assays that do not assess expression on a cell-by-cell basis. We have examined the effect of a globin enhancer on the variegation of lacZ expression in erythrocytes of transgenic mice. Mice carrying lacZ driven by the alpha-globin promoter exhibit beta-galactosidase (beta-Gal) expression in only a very small proportion of embryonic erythrocytes. When the transgenic construct also contains the (alphaHS-40 enhancer, which controls expression of the alpha-globin gene, expression is seen in a high proportion of embryonic erythrocytes, although there are variations between transgenic lines which can be attributed to different sites of integration. Analysis of beta-Gal expression levels suggests that expressing cells in lines carrying only the alpha-globin promoter express as much beta-Gal as those in which the transgene also contains alphaHS-40. A marked decline in transgene expression occurs as mice age, which is mainly due to a decrease in the proportion of cells expressing the transgene. Thus, a globin enhancer can act to suppress variegation of a linked transgene; this result is consistent with a model in which enhancers act to establish and maintain an active domain without directly affecting the transcriptional rate.


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