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Analysis of cell cycle transcriptional regulation by mutation of promoter control elements in the mouse

ReferenceG18650
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Dr Roger Watson
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Co-Supervisors
Institution Imperial College London
DepartmentDept of Medicine
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 225,616
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 01/04/2003
End date 31/03/2006
Duration36 months

Abstract

The objective of this study is to develop animal and cell culture models to study the role of E2F complexes in suppression of cell cycle-regulated gene expression. The B-myb promoter E2F site has been mutated in the mouse genome by gene targetting in ES cells and chimaeric mice have been obtained. This system will now be developed to study the protein complexes which assemble on the B-myb E2F site and extinguish transcription in quiescent mouse embryo fibroblasts. These studies will then be extended to analyse the significance of the E2F site in suppression of B-myb expression that characterises withdrawal from the cell cycle in animal development and cellular replicative senescence and differentiation.

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Committee Closed Committee - Genes & Developmental Biology (GDB)
Research TopicsX – not assigned to a current Research Topic
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