期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1988
卷号：85
期号：8
页码：2738-2742
DOI：10.1073/pnas.85.8.2738
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Class II major histocompatibility complex molecules are integral membrane glycoproteins whose distribution is limited to certain tissues. To identify the molecular basis for such specificity, the chromatin configuration of the class II A alpha gene was examined in intact nuclei from various cell types. We show that there are three DNase I-hypersensitive sites in the A alpha gene. One of these sites, located near the promoter region, is specific to cells that normally express class II molecules at some stage of differentiation. Furthermore, this tissue-specific site appears to be under trans-regulatory control.
