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F8a  -  factor 8-associated gene A

Mus musculus

Synonyms: AI852759, CpG island protein, DXUcsf1, F8a1, Factor VIII intron 22 protein
 
 
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Disease relevance of F8a

 

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Chemical compound and disease context of F8a

 

Biological context of F8a

 

Anatomical context of F8a

  • Hypermethylation of a CpG island in the noncoding exon 1 was associated with silencing of this gene in malignant B cells [16].
  • It was found that HpaII site H-7 in the CpG island of the X-chromosome-linked Pgk-1 gene is less than or equal to 10% methylated in oocytes and male embryos but becomes 40% methylated in female embryos at 6.5 days; about the time of X-chromosome inactivation of the inner cell mass [17].
  • We have found that this CpG island includes a novel intronic promoter that is active in embryonic and germ cells [18].
  • In the mouse preimplantation embryo, most genes are unmethylated but a wave of de novo methylation prior to gastrulation generates a bimodal pattern characterized by unmethylated CpG island-containing housekeeping genes and fully modified tissue-specific genes [19].
  • The CpG island-like pVHCk plasmid containing the bacterial chloramphenicol acyltransferase (CAT) gene under the control of SV40 early promoter was transfected in L929 mouse fibroblast cells [20].
 

Associations of F8a with chemical compounds

 

Physical interactions of F8a

 

Regulatory relationships of F8a

 

Other interactions of F8a

  • Lambda G28, a mouse genomic clone homologous to the human P3 gene and associated with a CpG island, also hybridizes to human probes for the neighboring GdX gene [28].
  • We show that a CpG island associated with Gatm is unmethylated, as is a large CpG island associated with a neighboring gene [29].
  • These findings show a link between inactivation of the pRb pathway and induction of DNA hypermethylation of CpG island-containing genes in tumorigenesis [30].
  • Here we describe a novel gene, Enox (expressed neighbor of Xist), that maps to an unmethylated CpG island 10 kb upstream of Xist [31].
  • Because there is a 283-bp CpG island region in the HO-1 promoter, we hypothesized that methylation of the island is responsible for the age-related HO-1 down-regulation in the cortex [32].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of F8a

  • Gene silencing by CpG island promoter hypermethylation has awakened the interest for DNA demethylating agents as chemotherapy drugs [33].
  • In this method, referred to as CpG-selected and amplified binding, fragments derived from the CpG island fraction of the murine genome are selected by a gel mobility shift assay using in vitro-transcribed and -translated RXR-RAR [24].
  • Methylation status was assessed using regular and quantitative methylation-specific PCR and the CpG island was found to be hypomethylated at all ages [32].
  • Using pulsed field gel electrophoresis and Southern hybridization, we determined the approximate location of each probe with respect to the CpG island in both the DM and the chromosome [34].
  • Analysis of the 5' upstream region by DNA sequencing and Southern blotting suggested that it contained a CpG island, and a major site of transcription initiation 201 bp upstream of the translation start site was found by RNase protection and primer extension [35].

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