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Wu Q, Qi Y, Wang S, Liu J, Geng P, Zhou Q, Zhang W, Cai J, Hu B, Dai D, Li H. Polymorphic mutations in the
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gene promoter and their impact on transcriptional activity. Thorac Cancer 2022; 13:853-857. [PMID: 35128818 PMCID: PMC8930491 DOI: 10.1111/1759-7714.14337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Revised: 01/14/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
Background DNA polymerase β is one of the key enzymes involved in DNA damage repair and its proper expression is strictly controlled within different cells. We previously reported that three genetic mutations in the promoter region of the polb gene are prevalent in the Chinese Han population and two types of mutation are associated with thymic hyperplasia. The purpose of this study was to explore whether other mutated sites exist within the promoter region of the polb gene. Methods Genomic DNAs of 421 healthy Chinese Han individuals were extracted from whole blood samples and used for gene amplification of the promoter region of the polb gene. After gel purification, PCR amplicons were sequenced by the Sanger sequencing method and used for sequence alignment with the Lasergene program. PCR products with novel mutations were then subcloned into luciferase reporter plasmid pGL4.10 and transfected into 293T cells for dual‐luciferase activity analysis. Results In total, 11 mutated sites were detected in the Chinese Han population and eight of these were reported for the first time. Using a dual luciferase reporter system, it was found that one novel mutation −142 C > G could decrease the transcription activity of the polb gene, whereas two novel mutations, −152_−151insC and −218 C > G, could significantly increase the transcription activity of the polb gene. Conclusions High polymorphic sites could be found in the promoter region of polb gene and approximately half of them could influence its transcription activity.
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- Qingjun Wu
- Department of Thoracic Surgery Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine and Beijing Chao‐Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University Beijing China
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- The Key laboratory of Geriatrics Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing Hospital/National Center of Gerontology of National Health Commission Beijing China
- Peking University Fifth School of Clinical Medicine Beijing China
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- Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacy The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, The People's Hospital of Lishui Lishui China
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- The Key laboratory of Geriatrics Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing Hospital/National Center of Gerontology of National Health Commission Beijing China
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- Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacy The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, The People's Hospital of Lishui Lishui China
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- Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacy The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, The People's Hospital of Lishui Lishui China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine and Beijing Chao‐Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University Beijing China
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- The Key laboratory of Geriatrics Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing Hospital/National Center of Gerontology of National Health Commission Beijing China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine and Beijing Chao‐Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University Beijing China
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- The Key laboratory of Geriatrics Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing Hospital/National Center of Gerontology of National Health Commission Beijing China
- Peking University Fifth School of Clinical Medicine Beijing China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine and Beijing Chao‐Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University Beijing China
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Wu Q, Tian W, Yu H, Huang C, Jiao P, Ma C, Wang Y, Huang W, Sun Y, Ai B, Tong H. [Genetic Mutation Screening of DNA Polymerase in Human Lung Cancer]. ZHONGGUO FEI AI ZA ZHI = CHINESE JOURNAL OF LUNG CANCER 2019; 22:427-432. [PMID: 31315781 PMCID: PMC6712269 DOI: 10.3779/j.issn.1009-3419.2019.07.04] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND DNA polymerase β is one of the key enzymes for DNA repair and it was reported that about 30 percent of different types of cancers carried mutations in its coding gene Polb. However, it is still controversial whether it is true or false because of the small sample size in these studies. In current study, we performed genetic screening of promoter and coding regions of Polb gene in 69 Chinese lung cancer patients using Sanger sequencing method, so as to elucidate real mutation frequency of Polb mutations in Chinese Han population. METHODS Salting out extraction method was used to get the genome DNAs from tumor and normal matched tissues of 69 lung cancer patients. The promoter and 14 coding regions of Polb gene were then amplified using these DNAs as the template. After purification, amplicons were sequenced and aligned to the wild type Polb gene in NCBI database, in order to find out the mutated sites of Polb gene in Chinese lung cancer patients. RESULTS In this study, we totally found only 5 mutated sites in Polb gene. In detail, 3 mutations (-196G>T, -188_-187insCGCCC, -168C>A) were located in the promoter region; 2 mutations (587C>G, 612A>T) were found in coding regions. Specially, mutations of -188_-187insCGCCC and 587C>G (resulting to the amino acid substitution of Thr to Ser at position 196) had never been reported by other groups before. However, all these 5 mutated sites could be detected in both tumor and matched normal tissues, which inferred that they are not lung tumor specific mutations. CONCLUSIONS No lung tumor specific mutations of Polb gene could be found in Chinese lung cancer patients and Polb gene mutation might not be a molecular marker for Chinese lung cancer patients.
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- Qingjun Wu
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology,
Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology,
Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology,
Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology,
Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology,
Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology,
Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology,
Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology,
Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology,
Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology,
Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology,
Beijing 100730, China
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Kumari S, Ware D. Genome-wide computational prediction and analysis of core promoter elements across plant monocots and dicots. PLoS One 2013; 8:e79011. [PMID: 24205361 PMCID: PMC3812177 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2013] [Accepted: 09/18/2013] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Transcription initiation, essential to gene expression regulation, involves recruitment of basal transcription factors to the core promoter elements (CPEs). The distribution of currently known CPEs across plant genomes is largely unknown. This is the first large scale genome-wide report on the computational prediction of CPEs across eight plant genomes to help better understand the transcription initiation complex assembly. The distribution of thirteen known CPEs across four monocots (Brachypodium distachyon, Oryza sativa ssp. japonica, Sorghum bicolor, Zea mays) and four dicots (Arabidopsis thaliana, Populus trichocarpa, Vitis vinifera, Glycine max) reveals the structural organization of the core promoter in relation to the TATA-box as well as with respect to other CPEs. The distribution of known CPE motifs with respect to transcription start site (TSS) exhibited positional conservation within monocots and dicots with slight differences across all eight genomes. Further, a more refined subset of annotated genes based on orthologs of the model monocot (O. sativa ssp. japonica) and dicot (A. thaliana) genomes supported the positional distribution of these thirteen known CPEs. DNA free energy profiles provided evidence that the structural properties of promoter regions are distinctly different from that of the non-regulatory genome sequence. It also showed that monocot core promoters have lower DNA free energy than dicot core promoters. The comparison of monocot and dicot promoter sequences highlights both the similarities and differences in the core promoter architecture irrespective of the species-specific nucleotide bias. This study will be useful for future work related to genome annotation projects and can inspire research efforts aimed to better understand regulatory mechanisms of transcription.
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- Sunita Kumari
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America,
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America,
- United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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Faumont N, Le Clorennec C, Teira P, Goormachtigh G, Coll J, Canitrot Y, Cazaux C, Hoffmann JS, Brousset P, Delsol G, Feuillard J, Meggetto F. Regulation of DNA polymerase beta by the LMP1 oncoprotein of EBV through the nuclear factor-kappaB pathway. Cancer Res 2009; 69:5177-85. [PMID: 19491276 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-08-2866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The repair DNA polymerase beta (Polbeta), when overexpressed, plays a critical role in generating genetic instability via its interference with the genomic replication program. Up-regulation of Polbeta has been reported in many tumor types that exhibit genetic aberrations, including EBV-related B-cell lymphomas. However, the mechanisms responsible for its overexpression have never been examined. Here, we report that both expression and activity of Polbeta, in EBV-immortalized B cells, are induced by several natural genetic variants of LMP1, an oncoprotein associated with the vast majority of EBV-related tumors. Conversely, we found that the expression of Polbeta decreased when LMP1 signaling was down-regulated by a dominant negative of LMP1 or an inhibitor of the nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) pathway, the main transduction pathway activated by LMP1, strongly supporting a role of NF-kappaB in the LMP1-mediated Polbeta regulation. Using electrophoretic mobility shift assay experiments from several EBV-immortalized B-cell nuclear extracts, we identified an LMP1-dependent p50/c-Rel heterodimer on a proximal kappaB binding site (-211 to -199nt) of the Polbeta promoter. This result was correlated with a specific Polbeta kappaB transcriptional activity. Taken together, our data enlighten a new mechanism responsible for Polbeta overexpression in EBV-infected cells, mediated by LMP1 and dependent on NF-kappaB activation.
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- Nathalie Faumont
- Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale-U563, CPTP
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Chyan YJ, Rawson TY, Wilson SH. Cloning and characterization of a novel member of the human ATF/CREB family: ATF2 deletion, a potential regulator of the human DNA polymerase beta promoter. Gene 2003; 312:117-24. [PMID: 12909347 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(03)00607-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The solitary cAMP response element (CRE)1 in the human DNA polymerase beta (beta-pol) core promoter plays a key role in both basal expression and the DNA-alkylating agent response of the promoter. To further understand the role of the CRE in the regulation of this promoter, we searched for novel CRE-binding proteins by using a 32P-labeled beta-pol CRE oligodeoxynucleotide and a human cDNA expression library constructed in phage lambda. A total of fourteen phage clones were isolated, corresponding to various members of the CRE-binding protein family. One of these clones, termed ATF2 deletion (ATF2d), encodes a novel ATF2 isoform and was chosen for further characterization in this study. Relative to ATF2 mRNA, this clone contains an internal 97-nt deletion and a unique 3' region. The 97-nt deletion causes a frame shift, resulting in a ATF2-like polypeptide of approximately 60 kDa. ATF2d retains the bZIP domain of ATF2, lacks the N-terminal zinc-finger region, and includes novel characteristics in its N- and C-terminal regions.
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- Yau-Jan Chyan
- Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-0851, USA
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He F, Yang XP, Srivastava DK, Wilson SH. DNA polymerase beta gene expression: the promoter activator CREB-1 is upregulated in Chinese hamster ovary cells by DNA alkylating agent-induced stress. Biol Chem 2003; 384:19-23. [PMID: 12674496 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2003.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The DNA alkylating agent N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) upregulates the level of the base excision DNA repair enzyme DNA polymerase beta (beta-pol) in several mammalian cell types. Previous studies suggested that beta-pol expression is upregulated via a transcriptional mechanism that requires: the specific cAMP response element (CRE) in the beta-pol core promoter; a phosphorylated form of CRE-binding protein-1 (CREB-1); and cellular protein kinase A activity. A large family of CRE-binding proteins, ie., the ATF/CREB factors, has been identified in various cell types. This study further examines the role of CRE-binding proteins in regulating beta-pol expression through study of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. In CHO cell nuclear extract, CREB-1 and ATF-1 are the predominant CRE-binding protein family members recognizing the CRE in the beta-pol core promoter. The concentration of CREB-1 increases strongly in CHO cells after exposure to MNNG. In contrast, the level of ATF-1 does not change after MNNG treatment. Recombinant expression of CREB-1 in CHO cells is sufficient to increase expression of the endogenous beta-pol gene, even in the absence of MNNG exposure. These results indicate that beta-pol gene expression in CHO cells can be upregulated by CREB-1 and that the activation of beta-pol gene expression in response to DNA alkylating agent exposure involves a strong increase in the level of CREB-1.
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- Feng He
- Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-1068, USA
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The basic premise of this investigation was that local hormonal control of stockpiling of the base excision repair polymerase (poly) beta within oocytes of preovulatory follicles occurs as a function of cytoplasmic maturation. There was an increase in immunoreactive poly beta in sectioned oocytes of preovulatory ovine follicles during a 12-36-hour interval following the onset of prostaglandin (PG) F2alpha-induced (Day 14 of the estrous cycle) luteal regression; this response was not observed in subordinate (nonovulatory) follicles. Accumulation of poly beta in oocytes at 36 hr after PGF2alpha was negated by treatment of ewes at 12 hr with the aromatase inhibitor Arimidex or an ovulatory dose of GnRH (which, via surge gonadotropin stimulation, acutely downregulates the proestrous rise in follicular estrogen biosynthesis). Estradiol-17beta stimulated poly beta expression (transcriptional control) in oocytes of explanted (12 hr after PGF2alpha) follicles (24-hour incubation). We suggest that a critical period of estrogen amplification in the preovulatory follicle underscores the capacity of its oocyte to efficiently repair DNA and therefore reconcile spontaneous infidelities in genomic integrity that inevitably occur during preimplantation embryogenesis.
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- W J Murdoch
- Department of Animal Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming
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Hu Y, Su L, Snow ET. Arsenic toxicity is enzyme specific and its affects on ligation are not caused by the direct inhibition of DNA repair enzymes. Mutat Res 1998; 408:203-18. [PMID: 9806419 DOI: 10.1016/s0921-8777(98)00035-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The molecular mechanism of arsenic toxicity is believed to be due to the ability of arsenite [As(III)] to bind protein thiols. Numerous studies have shown that arsenic is cytotoxic at micromolar concentrations. Micromolar As can also induce chromosomal damage and inhibit DNA repair. The mechanism of arsenic-induced genotoxicity is very important because arsenic is a human carcinogen, but not a mutagen, and there is a need to establish recommendations for safe levels of As in the environment. We have measured the dose-response for arsenic inhibition of several purified human DNA repair enzymes, including DNA polymerase beta, DNA ligase I and DNA ligase III and have found that most enzymes, even those with critical SH groups, are very insensitive to As. Many repair enzymes are activated by millimolar concentrations of As(III) and/or As(V). Only pyruvate dehydrogenase, one of eight purified enzymes examined so far, is inhibited by micromolar arsenic. In contrast to the purified enzymes, treatment of human cells in culture with micromolar arsenic produces a significant dose-dependent decrease in DNA ligase activity in nuclear extracts from the treated cells. However, the ligase activity in extracts from untreated cells is no more sensitive to arsenic than the purified enzymes. Our results show that direct enzyme inhibition is not a common toxic effect of As and that only a few sensitive enzymes are responsible for arsenic-induced cellular toxicity. Thus, arsenic-induced co-mutagenesis and inhibition of DNA repair is probably not the result of direct enzyme inhibition, but may be an indirect effect caused by As-induced changes in cellular redox levels or alterations in signal transduction pathways and consequent changes in gene expression.
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- Y Hu
- Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine and Kaplan Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York University Medical Center, Tuxedo 10987, USA
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Zhou ZQ, Walter CA. Cloning and characterization of the promoter of baboon XRCC1, a gene involved in DNA strand-break repair. SOMATIC CELL AND MOLECULAR GENETICS 1998; 24:23-39. [PMID: 9776979 DOI: 10.1007/bf02677493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The DNA repair gene XRCC1 was the first cloned human DNA repair gene involved in resistance to ionizing radiation. Previous studies have shown that rodent and baboon homologs of XRCC1 are expressed in all tested tissues with significantly higher levels in testis. Furthermore, expression of murine XRCC1 is most abundant in pachytene spermatocytes and round spermatids. To begin to study regulation of XRCC1 expression, the 5' region of baboon XRCC1 was cloned and characterized. 400 bp of 5'-flanking region showed the greatest promoter activity, while -194 to -8 bp of the 5'-flanking region displayed core promoter activity in transient transfection assays. A comparison between baboon and human 5'-flanking sequences in the core promoter region revealed a potential CAAT-box, an imperfect CREB-binding site and two putative Sp1-binding sites. Results from transient transfection assays in which each putative binding site was individually mutated, indicated that the distal Sp1-binding site has a functional role in transcription. In comparison, both putative Sp1-binding sites bound protein(s) from HeLa cell nuclear extracts in vitro. In vitro binding was lost when mutated Sp1 sites were used in gel mobility shift assays. Finally, anti-Sp1 antibodies produced mobility supershifts, thereby indicating Sp1 or an Sp1-like protein bound to the DNA fragment in vitro.
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- Z Q Zhou
- Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 78240-7762, USA
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Kobayashi M, Kawakami K. Synergism of the ATF/CRE site and GC box in the housekeeping Na,K-ATPase alpha1 subunit gene is essential for constitutive expression. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 241:169-74. [PMID: 9405252 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.7781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Na,K-ATPase alpha1 subunit gene is constitutively expressed in a wide variety of tissues. Our previous studies revealed that the promoter region between -77 and +17 of the transcription initiation site of the rat Na,K-ATPase alpha1 subunit gene (Atp1a1) is sufficient for the promoter activity. In this region, an ATF/CRE site with an adjacent GC box exists. To elucidate how these sites are involved in the promoter activity, we analyzed effects of point mutations at these sites on transcription by in vitro transcription assays using nuclear extracts prepared from various rat tissues. Mutation at either site resulted in dramatic reduction of the promoter activity in all nuclear extracts, while mutation at both sites did not lead to further reduction. These results indicate that the ATF/CRE site and GC box are both essential for promoter activity and show synergistic activation. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay indicated that Sp1 and/or Sp3 bind to the GC box, and ATF1-CREB heterodimer binds to the ATF/CRE site. Since an element, ATF/CRE site-GC box, is conserved in mammalian Na,K-ATPase alpha1 subunit genes and in other constitutive promoters, we propose that this element is a critical unit for constitutive expression.
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- M Kobayashi
- Department of Biology, Jichi Medical School, Minamikawachi, Tochigi, Kawachi, 329-0498, Japan
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Yang XP, He F, Rawson T, Wilson S. Human DNA Polymerase-beta Promoter: Phorbol Ester Activation Is Mediated through the cAMP Response Element and cAMP-Response-Element-Binding Protein. J Biomed Sci 1997; 4:279-288. [PMID: 12386374 DOI: 10.1007/bf02258351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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That mammalian DNA polymerase-beta (beta-pol) gene transcription is upregulated by activated ras and also by phorbol ester (TPA) treatment suggests the involvement of protein kinase C in the gene expression control for this DNA repair enzyme. Yet, the core promoters of the human, bovine and rodent beta-pol genes do not have a TPA response element or other binding site for the transcriptional activator AP-1. Instead, these beta-pol promoters appear to be regulated mainly by proteins binding to the cAMP response element (CRE) centered within 50 bp 5' of the transcriptional start site. In this study, the CRE in the human beta-pol promoter was found to mediate TPA upregulation of the cloned promoter in HeLa cell transient expression experiments. To further examine the role of this CRE in TPA stimulation, we used several mutated promoters that were either deficient in protein binding to the CRE or contained extra CRE sites arranged as tandem repeats. All constructs with at least one functional CRE were upregulated by TPA, whereas mutants lacking CRE protein-binding function were not TPA upregulated. Analyses of HeLa nuclear extract DNA-binding proteins indicated that the beta-pol CRE was bound by CRE-binding protein (CREB) family members CREB-1 and activating transcription factor-1, but not by AP-1 or complexes containg AP-1 subunits. These results suggest that CREB, rather than AP-1 proteins, are required for the CRE-mediated TPA activation of the beta-pol promoter.
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- X.-P. Yang
- Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Tex., USA
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Narayan S, He F, Wilson SH. Activation of the human DNA polymerase beta promoter by a DNA-alkylating agent through induced phosphorylation of cAMP response element-binding protein-1. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:18508-13. [PMID: 8702497 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.31.18508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Treatment of cells with the DNA-alkylating agent N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) induces expression of the endogenous mammalian DNA polymerase beta (beta-pol) gene and of the cloned promoter in transient expression studies. The lone cAMP response element (CRE) in the core promoter, along with functional protein kinase A, is critical for the MNNG-induced up-regulation. Recently, we described a kinetic mechanism for transcriptional regulation of the beta-pol promoter in vitro and found that CRE-binding protein (CREB) from MNNG-treated cells differentially up-regulates the promoter by stimulating formation of closed preinitiation complex (RPc). Here, using a CRE-dependent chimeric beta-pol promoter, we purified the RPc assembled with nuclear extract from MNNG-treated and control HeLa cells. Comparison of proteins in the purified RPc samples revealed that the MNNG induction is associated with a strong increase in the Ser133-phosphorylated form of recombinant CREB (CREB-1). CREB depletion of the nuclear extracts diminished transcriptional activity, and addition of purified Ser133-phosphorylated CREB-1 restored activity, whereas unphosphorylated CREB-1 did not. Addition of phosphorylated CREB-1 to the control cell extract mimicked the MNNG-induced up-regulation of transcriptional activity. These results indicate that phosphorylation of CREB-1 is the probable mechanism of activation of the beta-pol promoter after treatment of cells with the DNA-alkylating agent MNNG.
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- S Narayan
- Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555, USA
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