An insulator loop resides between the synthetically interacting elements of the human/rat conserved breast cancer susceptibility locus MCS5A/Mcs5a

Many low-penetrance breast cancer susceptibility loci are found to be located in non-protein-coding regions, suggesting their involvement in gene expression regulation. We identified the human/rat-conserved breast cancer susceptibility locus MCS5A/Mcs5a. This locus has been shown to act in a non-mam...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nucleic acids research 2012-01, Vol.40 (1), p.132-147
Hauptverfasser: Smits, Bart M. G., Traun, Benjamin D., Devries, Thomas L., Tran, Ann, Samuelson, David, Haag, Jill D., Gould, Michael
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Zusammenfassung:Many low-penetrance breast cancer susceptibility loci are found to be located in non-protein-coding regions, suggesting their involvement in gene expression regulation. We identified the human/rat-conserved breast cancer susceptibility locus MCS5A/Mcs5a. This locus has been shown to act in a non-mammary cell-autonomous fashion through the immune system. The resistant Mcs5a allele from the Wistar-Kyoto (WKy) rat strain consists of two non-protein-coding genetic elements that must be located on the same chromosome to elicit the phenotype. In this study, we show the presence of a conserved higher order chromatin structure in MCS5A/Mcs5a located in between the synthetically interacting genetic elements. The looped elements are shown to be bound by CTCF and cohesin. We identify the downregulation of Fbxo10 expression in T cells as a strong candidate mechanism through which the interacting genetic elements of the resistant Mcs5a allele modulate mammary carcinoma susceptibility. Finally, we show that the human MCS5A polymorphisms associated with breast cancer risk are located at both sides of the looped structure and functionally interact to downregulate transcriptional activity, similar to rat Mcs5a. We propose a mechanistic model for MCS5a/Mcs5a in which a CTCF-mediated insulator loop encompassing the TOMM5/Tomm5 gene, resides in between and brings into closer physical proximity the synthetically and functionally interacting resistant genetic variants.
ISSN:0305-1048
1362-4962
DOI:10.1093/nar/gkr610