Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor-3α Binding at P Sequences of the Human Growth Hormone Locus Is Associated with Pituitary Repressor Function
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Abstract
The human GH family consists of five genes, including the placental chorionic somatomammotropins (CS), within a single locus on chromosome 17. Based on nuclease sensitivity, the entire GH/CS locus is accessible in pituitary chromatin, yet only GH-N is expressed. Previously, we reported a P sequence element (263P) capable of repressing placental CS-A promoter activity in transfected pituitary (GC) cells, and our data indicated a possible role for nuclear factor-1 (NF-1) and regulatory factor X1 in this repression. In this study we show the formation of two independent pituitary complexes in vitro: a repressor complex containing NF-1 and a nonfunctional complex containing regulatory factor X1. In vitro repressor function is stabilized by the presence of P sequence element C (PSE-C), downstream of the previously characterized PSE-A and PSE-B. Repressor function is also dependent on an intact Pit-1 binding site in the CS-A promoter. EMSAs with PSE-C reveal binding of the hepatocyte nuclear factor-3/forkhead (HNF-3/fkh) family of transcription factors in rat pituitary GC cells. This observation is extended to human pituitary tissue, where HNF-3alpha's association with P sequences is confirmed by chromatin immunoprecipitation. Furthermore, protein-protein interactions between HNF-3alpha and NF-1 family members are demonstrated. These results identify HNF-3alpha as an additional member of the pituitary P sequence regulatory complex, implicating it in tissue-specific expression of the human GH/CS family.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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