Figure 3.
Identification of genes with compromised expression in the teeth of autophagy-deficient mice. (A) Schematic diagram of binding sites (BSs) for NRF2 in the promoter region (10 kb upstream from transcription start site) of each gene related to amelogenesis imperfecta. The conserved NRF2 BSs among 8 species were selected for experimental validation. (B) Quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction analyses for the indicated genes of upper incisors from wild-type (blue bars) and Atg7 cKO (green bars) mice. ***P < 0.001. n = 6 per group. (C) Chromatin immunoprecipitation analyses for each BS in Dlx3, Klk4, Nectin1, Bcl11c, Pax9, and Ltbp3. ***P < 0.001; ns, not significant. n = 6 per group.
