Retinoic acid activates HOXB4 chromatin

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R-HSA-5617859
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Reaction [omitted]
Species
Homo sapiens
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nucleoplasm
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Retinoic acid activates HOXB4 chromatin
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As inferred from mouse embryos, retinoic acid activates the HOXB4 gene in rhombomere 7 (r7) by binding retinoic acid receptor RARB (Folberg et al. 1999) and perhaps RARA in RAR:RXR dimers bound to retinoic acid response elements (RAREs) located in the 3' flanking region of the HOXB4 gene, causing dissociation of corepressors and recruitment of coactivators. HOXB4 maintains its own expression by binding and activating its own promoter.
In human fibroblasts activation of chromatin at the HOXB4 gene accompanied by loss of methylation of lysine-27 at histone H3 (H3K27me3, Lan et al. 2007). Based on observations from mouse embryonic stem cells, Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2), which binds H3K27me3, is anticipated to be lost while methylation of H3K4 is gained, possibly through the action of the histone demethylase KDM6A (UTX) which, in human fibroblasts, binds HOXB4 (Lan et al. 2007). Other factors may be involved in demethylating H3K27me3. KDM6A can form complexes containing the histone methyltransferases KMT2C,D (MLL2,3) which may participate in methylating H3K4 (Lee et al. 2007).
Literature References
PubMed ID Title Journal Year
17851529 A histone H3 lysine 27 demethylase regulates animal posterior development

Rinn, JL, Wang, JK, Lan, F, Shi, Y, Issaeva, I, Chang, HY, Whetstine, JR, Alpatov, R, Iwase, S, Chen, S, Bayliss, PE, Roberts, TM, Canaani, E

Nature 2007
17761849 Demethylation of H3K27 regulates polycomb recruitment and H2A ubiquitination

Di Croce, L, Trojer, P, Reinberg, D, Lee, MG, Villa, R, Yan, KP, Shiekhattar, R, Norman, J

Science 2007
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Retinoic acid activates Hoxb4 chromatin (Mus musculus)
Authored
Rezsohazy, R  (2015-11-15)
May, B  (2014-08-08)
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Blasi, F  (2015-05-13)
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May, B  (2014-08-15)
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