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Nagel, J.* ; Gross, B.* ; Meggendorfer, M. ; Preiss, C.* ; Grez, M.* ; Brack-Werner, R. ; Dietzel, S.*

Stably integrated and expressed retroviral sequences can influence nuclear location and chromatin condensation of the integration locus.

Chromosoma 121, 353-367 (2012)
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The large-scale chromatin organization of retrovirus and retroviral gene vector integration loci has attracted little attention so far. We compared the nuclear organization of transcribed integration loci with the corresponding loci on the homologous chromosomes. Loci containing gamma-retroviral gene transfer vectors in mouse hematopoietic precursor cells showed small but significant repositioning of the integration loci towards the nuclear interior. HIV integration loci in human cells showed a significant repositioning towards the nuclear interior in two out of five cases. Notably, repositioned HIV integration loci also showed chromatin decondensation. Transcriptional activation of HIV by sodium butyrate treatment did not lead to a further enhancement of the differences between integration and homologous loci. The positioning relative to splicing speckles was indistinguishable for integration and homologous control loci. Our data show that stable retroviral integration can lead to alterations of the nuclear chromatin organization, and has the potential to modulate chromatin structure of the host cell. We thus present an example where a few kb of exogenous DNA are sufficient to significantly alter the large-scale chromatin organization of an endogenous locus.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
Keywords In-Situ Hybridization; Chronic Granulomatous-Disease; Virus Type-1 Rnas; Human Cell-Nuclei; Gene-Therapy; Hematopoietic-Cells; Chromosome Territories; HIV-1; Activation; EVI1
Language english
Publication Year 2012
HGF-reported in Year 2012
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0009-5915
e-ISSN 1432-0886
Journal Chromosoma
Quellenangaben Volume: 121, Issue: 4, Pages: 353-367 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher Springer
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
POF-Topic(s) 30203 - Molecular Targets and Therapies
Research field(s) Immune Response and Infection
PSP Element(s) G-502700-001
PubMed ID 22415776
Scopus ID 84864880316
Erfassungsdatum 2012-08-23