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The Journal of Immunology, 2006, 176: 2439-2447.
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Regulation of IgH Gene Assembly: Role of the Intronic Enhancer and 5'DQ52 Region in Targeting DHJH Recombination1

Roshi Afshar*, Steven Pierce*, Daniel J. Bolland{dagger}, Anne Corcoran{dagger} and Eugene M. Oltz2,*

* Department of Microbiology/Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, TN 37232; and {dagger} Laboratory of Chromatin and Gene Expression, The Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridge, United Kingdom

The assembly of Ag receptor genes by V(D)J recombination is regulated by transcriptional promoters and enhancers which control chromatin accessibility at Ig and TCR gene segments to the RAG-1/RAG-2 recombinase complex. Paradoxically, germline deletions of the IgH enhancer (Eµ) only modestly reduce DH->JH rearrangements when assessed in peripheral B cells. However, deletion of Eµ severely impairs recombination of VH gene segments, which are located over 100 kb away. We now test two alternative explanations for the minimal effect of Eµ deletions on primary DH->JH rearrangement: 1) Accessibility at the DHJH cluster is controlled by a redundant cis-element in the absence of Eµ. One candidate for this element lies 5' to DQ52 (PDQ52) and exhibits promoter/enhancer activity in pre-B cells. 2) In contrast to endpoint B cells, DH->JH recombination may be significantly impaired in pro-B cells from enhancer-deficient mice. To elucidate the roles of PDQ52 and Eµ in the regulation of IgH locus accessibility, we generated mice with targeted deletions of these elements. We report that the defined PDQ52 promoter is dispensable for germline transcription and recombination of the DHJH cluster. In contrast, we demonstrate that Eµ directly regulates accessibility of the DHJH region. These findings reveal a significant role for Eµ in the control mechanisms that activate IgH gene assembly and suggest that impaired VH->DHJH rearrangement in enhancer-deficient cells may be a downstream consequence of the primary block in DH->JH recombination.




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