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High-level β-globin gene expression is dependent on the presence of the locus control region (LCR), a powerful regulatory element physically characterized by five DNase I-hypersensitive sites (HS), designated HS1–HS5. Of these, HS3 contains seven GT motifs that are essential for its activity. One of the motifs, GT6, has been shown by  in vivo  footprinting to display the largest difference in signal between fetal and adult globin expressing cells. We assessed the contribution of GT6 on the downstream globin gene expression by mutating this motif in a 248 kb β-globin locus yeast artificial chromosome and measuring the activity of β-globin genes in GT6 m  β-YAC transgenic mice. Seven transgenic lines were established, three of which contained at least one intact copy of the β-globin locus and were further investigated. The mutation of the GT6 motif reduced the expression of ε- and γ-globin genes during embryonic erythropoiesis. During definitive erythropoiesis, γ-globin gene expression was significantly reduced while β-globin gene expression was virtually indistinguishable from wild-type controls. We conclude that the GT6 motif of hypersensitive site 3 of the LCR is required for normal ε- and γ-globin gene expression during embryonic erythropoiesis and for γ-globin gene expression during definitive erythropoiesis in the fetal liver. Our results provide evidence that mutations of single transcriptional motifs of distant regulatory elements can have profound effects on gene expression.

Mutation of a transcriptional motif of a distant regulatory element reduces the expression of embryonic and fetal globin genes