Ullrich, Simon; Leidescher, Susanne; Feodorova, Yana; Thanisch, Katharina; Fini, Jean-Baptiste; Kaspers, Bernd; Weber, Frank; Markova, Boyka; Führer, Dagmar; Romitti, Mirian; Krebs, Stefan; Blum, Helmut; Leonhardt, Heinrich; Costagliola, Sabine; Heuer, Heike; Solovei, Irina (2023): The highly and perpetually upregulated thyroglobulin gene is a hallmark of functional thyrocytes. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 11: 1265407. ISSN 2296-634X
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Abstract
Abnormalities are indispensable for studying normal biological processes and mechanisms. In the present work, we draw attention to the remarkable phenomenon of a perpetually and robustly upregulated gene, the thyroglobulin gene ( Tg ). The gene is expressed in the thyroid gland and, as it has been recently demonstrated, forms so-called transcription loops, easily observable by light microscopy. Using this feature, we show that Tg is expressed at a high level from the moment a thyroid cell acquires its identity and both alleles remain highly active over the entire life of the cell, i.e., for months or years depending on the species. We demonstrate that this high upregulation is characteristic of thyroglobulin genes in all major vertebrate groups. We provide evidence that Tg is not influenced by the thyroid hormone status, does not oscillate round the clock and is expressed during both the exocrine and endocrine phases of thyrocyte activity. We conclude that the thyroglobulin gene represents a unique and valuable model to study the maintenance of a high transcriptional upregulation.
Doc-Type: | Article (LMU) |
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Organisational unit (Faculties): | 19 Biology |
DFG subject classification of scientific disciplines: | Life sciences |
Date Deposited: | 03. Nov 2023 11:57 |
Last Modified: | 07. Dec 2023 12:19 |
URI: | https://oa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/990 |
DFG: | Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - 422388934 |
DFG: | Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - 422857584 |
DFG: | Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - 213249687 |
DFG: | Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - 491502892 |