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Regulation of gene expression
Fall, 2015
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Gene Expression Regulation in Prokaryotes
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Control of transcription , little on translation
How much mRNA is formed
How many times it is translated
How stable a protein after being made
Amount of functional protein which is made
Operon
• Structure that is unique to prok. cells
• Grouping of genes with common function on
the same location on DNA
• One promoter make single mRNA that
encodes more than one gene
• More than one gene encoded on the mRNA
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Lac operon
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Inducible gene
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No lactose
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In the presence of lactose: allolactose
as inducer
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Promoter seq. of lac operon: No TATA
box like
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CAP: helps RNA pol. to bind
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X-gal: artificial indicator
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IPTG: Confuses lac repressor which will bind to it
and prevent repressor to bind to operator
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Tryptophan operon
Attenuation: for amino acid synthesis operon, 10 genes for Trp
operon.
Red seq: antiterminator
blue seq: terminator
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Plenty of Trp
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Very little of Trp
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Several operon regions of different
amino acids
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Eukaryotic gene expression
• Complex process
• Governed by differentiation and histones
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Nucleosomal core particle
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Side view
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schematic
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Histones
conservation of structure, similar structures, between and within
organisims
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supercoiling
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DNA binding protein domain
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Zinc fingers: portion of prot binding to
DNA
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Mediator: bridge the gap between TF and RNA plo.
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Enhancers: sequences bound by proteins that
affect transcription in a tissue specific manner
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Transgenic chicken transformed with muscle
enhancers, gene expression during development
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Covalent modification to DNA: methylation if happened
in promoter or regulatory sequence tends to silence
the gene, methylation is an example of epigenetic
transmitting to generations
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Hormones could affect gene expression.
Esradiol affects expression of many genes
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Mechanism of action of estradiol: interacts with Nuclear
Domain Receptor protein which has 2 domains; DNA binding
domain and ligand binding domain which estradiol
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Tamoxifen interferes with the action of estradiol, it binds the
nuclear receptor and thus inhibit binding of coactivator
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Coactivators are enzymes that acetylate
histones(Histone acetylases)
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Bromo domain proteins will recognize acetyllysine, so these
bromodomain proteins will bind to histones; remodeling engine
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Remodeling engine opens up access to promoter to all
other proteins and transcription factors
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Control of expression at translation level:
-ferritin: binds to iron
-transferrin receptor: controls how much iron gets in.
control at translation and stability of mRNA
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mRNA for ferritin
-iron response element: This structure is a target to a protein that recognize it- iron
response protein (IRP), IRP could bind iron at high iron level.
-At low iron level: IRP bind IRE and prevents translation of ferr. mRNA
-if high iron level: translation will go a head?
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mRNA transferrin receptor:
-low iron: IRP binds and stabilizes the mRNA high translation
-high iron: IRP will not bind IRE, mRNA will be degraded no translation
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Micro RNA:
Regulation at the level of mRNA stability
700 human genes are regulated by this mechanism
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