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In Vitro | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Mouse mammary tumor virus chromatin in human breast cancer cells is constitutively hypersensitive and exhibits steroid hormone-independent loading of transcription factors in vivo.

J S Mymryk, D Berard, G L Hager, T K Archer
J S Mymryk
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
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D Berard
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
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G L Hager
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
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T K Archer
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DOI: 10.1128/MCB.15.1.26
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We have stably introduced a reporter gene under the control of the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) long terminal repeat (LTR) into human T47D breast cancer cells to study the action of the progesterone receptor (PR) on transcription from a chromatin template. Unexpectedly, the chromatin organization of the MMTV LTR in these human breast cancer cells differed markedly from what we have observed previously. The region adjacent to the transcription start site (-221 to -75) was found to be constitutively hypersensitive to restriction enzyme cleavage in the absence of hormone. This region is normally encompassed within the second nucleosome of a phased array of six nucleosomes that is assembled when the MMTV LTR is stably maintained in mouse cells. Characteristically, in these rodent cells, the identical DNA sequences show increased restriction enzyme cleavage only in the presence of glucocorticoid. The increased access of restriction enzymes observed in the human PR+ cells was not observed in adjacent nucleosomes and was unaffected by treatment with the progesterone antagonist RU486. In addition, exonuclease III-dependent stops corresponding to the binding sites for nuclear factor 1 and the PR were observed before and after hormone treatment. These results indicate that MMTV chromatin replicated in these cells is organized into a constitutively open architecture and that this open chromatin state is accompanied by hormone-independent loading of a transcription factor complex that is normally excluded from uninduced chromatin.

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Mouse mammary tumor virus chromatin in human breast cancer cells is constitutively hypersensitive and exhibits steroid hormone-independent loading of transcription factors in vivo.
J S Mymryk, D Berard, G L Hager, T K Archer
Molecular and Cellular Biology Jan 1995, 15 (1) 26-34; DOI: 10.1128/MCB.15.1.26

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Mouse mammary tumor virus chromatin in human breast cancer cells is constitutively hypersensitive and exhibits steroid hormone-independent loading of transcription factors in vivo.
J S Mymryk, D Berard, G L Hager, T K Archer
Molecular and Cellular Biology Jan 1995, 15 (1) 26-34; DOI: 10.1128/MCB.15.1.26
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