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Fan C, Yan J, Qian Y, Wo X, Gao L. Regulation of Lipoprotein Lipase Expression by Effect of Hawthorn Flavonoids on Peroxisome Proliferator Response Element Pathway. J Pharmacol Sci 2006; 100:51-8. [PMID: 16404131 DOI: 10.1254/jphs.fp0050748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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To investigate the possibility that natural medicines affect lipid metabolism by regulating lipoprotein lipase (LPL) expression, a green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene was constructed downstream of the peroxisome proliferator response element (PPRE) and the constructed plasmid was microinjected into Xenopus oocytes to establish a PPRE regulatory reporter system. Using this system, hawthorn flavonoids were quickly selected from a panel of natural medicines and found to up-regulate GFP expression by an effect on PPRE. To confirm the effect of hawthorn flavonoids, we treated mice orally with water (control), hawthorn flavonoids, and pioglitazone and measured the LPL levels in serum, adipose tissue, and muscle by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The serum LPL levels were no different from the controls after treatment with either hawthorn flavonoids or pioglitazone, but LPL increased significantly in muscular tissues and decreased in adipose tissues. These results demonstrate that hawthorn flavonoids meditate LPL expression in mice with tissue-specific differences. A novel PPRE regulatory report system was established for rapid and effective selection and evaluation of LPL-mediating drugs.
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- Chunlei Fan
- Life Science Department, Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
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The oocyte is a highly differentiated cell. It makes organelles specialized to its unique functions and progresses through a series of developmental stages to acquire a fertilization competent phenotype. This review will integrate the biology of the oocyte with what is known about oocyte-specific gene regulation and transcription factors involved in oocyte development. We propose that oogenesis is reliant on a dynamic gene regulatory network that includes oocyte-specific transcriptional regulators.
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- Jia L Song
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University, 69 Brown Street, Box G-J4, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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Ghose R, Malik M, Huber PW. Restricted specificity of Xenopus TFIIIA for transcription of somatic 5S rRNA genes. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:2467-77. [PMID: 14993284 PMCID: PMC355861 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.6.2467-2477.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Xenopus transcription factor IIIA (TFIIIA) is phosphorylated on serine-16 by CK2. Replacements with alanine or glutamic acid were made at this position in order to address the question of whether phosphorylation possibly influences the function of this factor. Neither substitution has an effect on the DNA or RNA binding activity of TFIIIA. The wild-type factor and the alanine variant activate transcription of somatic- and oocyte-type 5S rRNA genes in nuclear extract immunodepleted of endogenous TFIIIA. The glutamic acid variant (S16E) supports the transcription of somatic-type genes at levels comparable to those of wild-type TFIIIA; however, there is no transcription of the oocyte-type genes. This differential behavior of the phosphomimetic mutant protein is also observed in vivo when using early-stage embryos, where this mutant failed to activate transcription of the endogenous oocyte-type genes. Template exclusion assays establish that the S16E mutant binds to the oocyte-type 5S rRNA genes and recruits at least one other polymerase III transcription factor into an inactive complex. Phosphorylation of TFIIIA by CK2 may allow the factor to continue to act as a positive activator of the somatic-type genes and simultaneously as a repressor of the oocyte-type 5S rRNA genes, indicating that there is a mechanism that actively promotes repression of the oocyte-type genes at the end of oogenesis.
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- Romi Ghose
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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A protein responsible for enhanced transcription by RNA polymerase III was identified in extracts from Xenopus oocytes. This protein, called EP3, interacts with a specific DNA sequence adjacent to the 3'-end of a Xenopus somatic 5S RNA gene and forms a distinct band shift complex with a unique DNase I footprint. Enhanced transcription was observed from both 5S RNA and tRNA reporter genes when EP3 binding sites were inserted at different locations and orientations. Removal of the EP3 protein from an oocyte extract abolished this enhanced transcription. In addition, EP3 was shown to stimulate transcription by increasing the rate of transcription complex assembly. EP3 directly discriminates between the somatic and oocyte 5S RNA gene families and may play a significant role in their differential expression during early Xenopus development.
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- M R Sturges
- California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology, 147-75, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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Westmark CJ, Ghose R, Huber PW. Inhibition of RNA polymerase III transcription by a ribosome-associated kinase activity. Nucleic Acids Res 1998; 26:4758-64. [PMID: 9753746 PMCID: PMC147894 DOI: 10.1093/nar/26.20.4758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Ribosomes prepared from somatic tissue of Xenopus laevis inhibit transcription by RNA polymerase III. This observation parallels an earlier report that a high speed fraction from activated egg extract, which is enrichedin ribosomes, inhibits RNA polymerase III activityand destabilizes putative transcription complexes assembled on oocyte 5S rRNA genes. Transcription of somatic- and oocyte-type 5S rRNA genes and a tRNA gene are all repressed in the present experiments. We find that 5S rRNA genes incubated in S150 extract prepared from immature oocytes exhibit an extensive DNase I protection pattern that is nearly identical to that of the ternary complex of TFIIIA and TFIIIC bound to a somatic 5S rRNA gene. The complexes formed in this extract are stable at concentrations of ribosomes that completely repress transcription, indicating that formation of the TFIII(A+C) complex is not the target of inhibition. Ribosomes taken through a high salt treatment no longer repress transcription of class III genes, establishing that the inhibition is due to an associated factor and not the particle itself. The inhibitory activity released from ribosomes is inactivated by treatment with proteinase K, but not micrococcal nuclease. Preincubation of ribosomes with a general protein kinase inhibitor, 6-dimethylaminopurine, eliminates repression of transcription. Western blot analysis demonstrates that p34(cdc2), which is known to mediate repression of transcription by RNA polymerase III, is present in these preparations of ribosomes and can be released from the particles upon extraction with high salt. These results establish that a kinase activity, possibly p34(cdc2), is the actual agent responsible for the observed inhibition of transcription by ribosomes.
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- C J Westmark
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, 251 Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame,IN 46556-5670, USA
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Sera T, Wolffe AP. Role of histone H1 as an architectural determinant of chromatin structure and as a specific repressor of transcription on Xenopus oocyte 5S rRNA genes. Mol Cell Biol 1998; 18:3668-80. [PMID: 9632749 PMCID: PMC108949 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.7.3668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/1998] [Accepted: 04/09/1998] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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We explore the role of histone H1 as a DNA sequence-dependent architectural determinant of chromatin structure and of transcriptional activity in chromatin. The Xenopus laevis oocyte- and somatic-type 5S rRNA genes are differentially transcribed in embryonic chromosomes in vivo depending on the incorporation of somatic histone H1 into chromatin. We establish that this effect can be reconstructed at the level of a single nucleosome. H1 selectively represses oocyte-type 5S rRNA genes by directing the stable positioning of a nucleosome such that transcription factors cannot bind to the gene. This effect does not occur on the somatic-type genes. Histone H1 binds to the 5' end of the nucleosome core on the somatic 5S rRNA gene, leaving key regulatory elements in the promoter accessible, while histone H1 binds to the 3' end of the nucleosome core on the oocyte 5S rRNA genes, specifically blocking access to a key promoter element (the C box). TFIIIA can bind to the somatic 5S rRNA gene assembled into a nucleosome in the presence of H1. Because H1 binds with equivalent affinities to nucleosomes containing either gene, we establish that it is the sequence-selective assembly of a specific repressive chromatin structure on the oocyte 5S rRNA genes that accounts for differential transcriptional repression. Thus, general components of chromatin can determine the assembly of specific regulatory nucleoprotein complexes.
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- T Sera
- Laboratory of Molecular Embryology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-5431, USA
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Oettel S, Härtel F, Kober I, Iben S, Seifart KH. Human transcription factors IIIC2 , IIIC1 and a novel component IIIC0 fulfil different aspects of DNA binding to various pol III genes. Nucleic Acids Res 1997; 25:2440-7. [PMID: 9171097 PMCID: PMC146769 DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.12.2440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Human transcription factor IIIC2 interacts with the TFIIIA-5S DNA complex and forms a ternary TFIIIA/IIIC2-5S DNA complex. Formation of this complex does not preclude simultaneous binding of TFIIIC2to the B-box sequence of a second template. This suggests that the domain(s) or subunit(s) required for indirect recognition of the 5S promoter by TFIIIC2 are different from those necessary for direct binding of TFIIIC2 to B-box-containing pol III promoters. Whereas TFIIIC2 is only required for transcription of the 'classical' pol III genes, TFIIIC1 is generally required for transcription of all pol III genes, including that of the U6 gene. The activity of TFIIIC1 strongly enhances specific binding of basal pol III factors TFIIIA, TFIIIC2 and the PSE binding protein (PBP) to their cognate promoter elements and it acts independently of the corresponding termination regions. Moreover, we characterize an activity, TFIIIC0, purified from phosphocellulose fraction C, which shows strong DNase I protection of the termination region of several pol III genes and which is functionally and chromatographically distinct from TFIIIC1 and TFIIIC2.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Binding, Competitive
- Cell Line
- Cell Nucleus/metabolism
- Chromatography, Ion Exchange
- Cytoplasm/metabolism
- DNA Footprinting
- DNA Polymerase III/biosynthesis
- DNA Polymerase III/genetics
- DNA, Ribosomal/metabolism
- Deoxyribonuclease I
- Genes, Synthetic
- Humans
- Mice
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- RNA, Ribosomal, 5S/biosynthesis
- RNA, Ribosomal, 5S/genetics
- Templates, Genetic
- Terminator Regions, Genetic
- Transcription Factor TFIIA
- Transcription Factors/isolation & purification
- Transcription Factors/metabolism
- Transcription Factors, TFIII
- Transcription, Genetic
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Affiliation(s)
- S Oettel
- Institut für Molekularbiologie und Tumorforschung, Philipps Universität Marburg, Lahnstrasse 3, D-35037 Marburg, Germany
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Huet J, Manaud N, Dieci G, Peyroche G, Conesa C, Lefebvre O, Ruet A, Riva M, Sentenac A. RNA polymerase III and class III transcription factors from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Methods Enzymol 1996; 273:249-67. [PMID: 8791617 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(96)73024-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- J Huet
- Service de Biochimie et de Génétique Moléculaire, Commissariat á l'Energie Atomique, Gif sur Yvette, France
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Lefebvre O, Rüth J, Sentenac A. A mutation in the largest subunit of yeast TFIIIC affects tRNA and 5 S RNA synthesis. Identification of two classes of suppressors. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)31663-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Wolffe AP. The role of transcription factors, chromatin structure and DNA replication in 5 S RNA gene regulation. J Cell Sci 1994; 107 ( Pt 8):2055-63. [PMID: 7983167 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.107.8.2055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Differential expression of the oocyte and somatic 5 S RNA genes during Xenopus development can be explained by changes in transcription factor and histone interactions with the two types of gene. Both factors and histones bind 5 S RNA genes with specificity. Protein-protein interactions determine the stability of potentially transcriptionally active or repressed nucleoprotein complexes. A decline in transcription factor abundance, differential binding of transcription factors to oocyte and somatic 5 S genes, and increased competition with the histones for association with DNA during early embryogenesis, can account for the developmental decision to selectively repress the oocyte genes, while retaining the somatic genes in the transcriptionally active state. The 5 S ribosomal genes of Xenopus are perhaps the simplest eukaryotic genes to show regulated expression during development. A large multigene family (oocyte 5 S DNA) is transcriptionally active in oocytes but is repressed in somatic cells, whereas a small multigene family (somatic 5 S DNA) is active in both cell types. A potential molecular mechanism to explain the developmental switch that turns off oocyte 5 S DNA transcription has been experimentally reconstructed in vitro and more recently tested in vivo. Central to this mechanism is the specific association of both transcription factors and histones with 5 S RNA genes. How the interplay of histones and transcription factors is thought to affect transcription, and how their respective contributions might change during development from an oocyte, to an embryo and eventually to a somatic cell is the focus of this review.
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- A P Wolffe
- Laboratory of Molecular Embryology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Moorefield B, Roeder R. Purification and characterization of human transcription factor IIIA. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)31901-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Bouvet P, Dimitrov S, Wolffe AP. Specific regulation of Xenopus chromosomal 5S rRNA gene transcription in vivo by histone H1. Genes Dev 1994; 8:1147-59. [PMID: 7926720 DOI: 10.1101/gad.8.10.1147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The incorporation of histone H1 into chromatin during embryogenesis directs the specific repression of the Xenopus oocyte 5S rRNA genes. An increase in histone H1 content specifically restricts TFIIIA-activated transcription, and a decrease in histone H1 within chromatin facilitates the activation of the oocyte 5S rRNA genes by TFIIIA. Variation in the amount of histone H1 in chromatin does not significantly influence somatic 5S rRNA gene transcription. Thus, the regulated expression of histone H1 during Xenopus development has a specific and dominant role in mediating the differential expression of the oocyte and somatic 5S rRNA genes. This example demonstrates that histones can exert dominant repressive effects on the transcription of a gene in vivo in spite of an abundance of transcription factors for that gene.
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- P Bouvet
- Laboratory of Molecular Embryology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Bukenberger M, Dingermann T, Meissner W, Seifart KH, Winckler T. Isolation of transcription factor IIIC from Dictyostelium discoideum. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1994; 220:839-46. [PMID: 8143738 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1994.tb18686.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Transcription factor IIIC (TFIIIC) binds in a sequence-specific manner to RNA-polymerase-III-transcribed genes (e.g. tRNA genes). It sequesters other transcription factors into the preformed complex, thereby activating transcription by RNA polymerase III. The Dictyostelium discoideum homologue of TFIIIC was highly purified by affinity chromatography based on its tDNA-binding activity. This TFIIIC homologue is a multicomponent factor (molecular mass 380 kDa), which binds to the B-box element of the internal tRNA gene promoter without significant A-box interaction. Partially purified D. discoideum TFIIIC is able to functionally complement a human RNA polymerase III in vitro transcription system depleted of human TFIIIC. We provide evidence that partially purified D. discoideum TFIIIC interacts in vitro with gene-external B-box elements present down-stream of many D. discoideum tRNA genes.
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- M Bukenberger
- Institut für Pharmazeutische Biologie, Universität Frankfurt/Main (Biozentrum), Germany
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Gottesfeld JM, Wolf VJ, Dang T, Forbes DJ, Hartl P. Mitotic repression of RNA polymerase III transcription in vitro mediated by phosphorylation of a TFIIIB component. Science 1994; 263:81-4. [PMID: 8272869 DOI: 10.1126/science.8272869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Interphase cytosol extracts prepared from Xenopus laevis eggs are active in RNA polymerase III (Pol III) transcription. Addition of recombinant B1 cyclin to these extracts activates mitotic protein kinases that repress transcription. Affinity-purified p34cdc2-cyclin B kinase (mitosis-promoting factor) is sufficient to effect this repression in a simplified Pol III transcription system. This mitotic repression involves the direct phosphorylation of a component of the Pol III transcription initiation factor TFIIIB, which consists of the TATA box-binding protein (TBP) and associated Pol III-specific factors. The transcriptional activity of the TFIIIB-TBP fraction can be modulated in vitro by phosphorylation with mitotic kinases and by dephosphorylation with immobilized alkaline phosphatase.
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- J M Gottesfeld
- Department of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037
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