The alpha 5 beta 1 fibronectin receptor. Characterization of the alpha 5 gene promoter.

Autor: Birkenmeier TM; Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110., McQuillan JJ, Boedeker ED, Argraves WS, Ruoslahti E, Dean DC
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of biological chemistry [J Biol Chem] 1991 Oct 25; Vol. 266 (30), pp. 20544-9.
Abstrakt: A genomic clone containing the gene for the alpha 5 subunit of the human alpha 5 beta 1 integrin complex was isolated by screening a human genomic library with the previously described alpha 5 cDNA (Argraves, W. S., Suzuki, S., Arai, H., Thompson, K., Pierschbacher, M. D., and Ruoslahti, E. (1987) J. Cell Biol 105, 1183-1190). The alpha 5 gene 5'-flanking region lacks both TATA and CCAAT boxes, and it is located in a CpG island. This region was an active promoter in transfection assays using the HT-1080 cell line (fibrosarcoma), which expresses alpha 5, but was inactive in the Raji cell line (B cell), which does not express alpha 5. These results indicate that the alpha 5 gene 5'-flanking region acts as a promoter that exhibits the expected cell-type specificity. Deletion of alpha 5 promoter sequences from position -657 to -178 caused transcription stimulation, suggesting that a silencer is located between these sites. Successive 5' deletions from position -178 decreased promoter activity until activity was essentially eliminated on deletion to position -27. Isolation of a functional promoter for the alpha 5 gene is a first step in understanding how expression of this gene is controlled at the molecular level.
Databáze: MEDLINE