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- Title
Corepressor-dependent silencing of chromosomal regions encoding neuronal genes.
- Authors
Lunyak, Victoria V; Burgess, Robert; Prefontaine, Gratien G; Nelson, Charles; Sze, Sing-Hoi; Chenoweth, Josh; Schwartz, Phillip; Pevzner, Pavel A; Glass, Christopher; Mandel, Gail; Rosenfeld, Michael G
- Abstract
The molecular mechanisms by which central nervous system-specific genes are expressed only in the nervous system and repressed in other tissues remain a central issue in developmental and regulatory biology. Here, we report that the zinc-finger gene-specific repressor element RE-1 silencing transcription factor/neuronal restricted silencing factor (REST/NRSF) can mediate extraneuronal restriction by imposing either active repression via histone deacetylase recruitment or long-term gene silencing using a distinct functional complex. Silencing of neuronal-specific genes requires the recruitment of an associated corepressor, CoREST, that serves as a functional molecular beacon for the recruitment of molecular machinery that imposes silencing across a chromosomal interval, including transcriptional units that do not themselves contain REST/NRSF response elements.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2002, Vol 298, Issue 5599, p1747
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.1076469