Tbx2 Represses Expression of Connexin43 in Osteoblastic-like Cells
| Autor: | James L. Borke, Cecilia W. Lo, Jung Ren Chen, Margaret L. Kirby, C. M. Isales, Roni J. Bollag, Jack C. Yu, B. Chatterjee, R. Meyer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Genetic Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Transgene Molecular Sequence Data Down-Regulation lac operon Cell Cycle Proteins Mice Transgenic Biology Transfection Mice Endocrinology Transcription (biology) Cell Line Tumor Consensus sequence Animals Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Binding site Gene Osteosarcoma Osteoblasts Base Sequence Molecular biology Rats T-box Connexin 43 NIH 3T3 Cells cardiovascular system sense organs biological phenomena cell phenomena and immunity T-Box Domain Proteins Sequence Alignment |
| Zdroj: | Calcified Tissue International. 74:561-573 |
| ISSN: | 1432-0827 0171-967X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00223-003-0106-5 |
| Popis: | Tbx2 belongs to a family of developmental transcription regulatory factors. We evaluated whether the gap junction protein Connexin43 (Cx43), an important regulator of osteoblast function and bone development, may be a downstream target gene regulated by Tbx2. The Cx43 promoter contains direct repeats of the consensus T-box binding motif, TCACAC, and moreover, Tbx2 and Cx43 show overlapping expression domains in precursors to bone and in osteoblasts. In vitro analysis showed that the Cx43 promoter contains two Tbx2 binding sites, and this binding was dependent on the TCACAC consensus sequence. Transient transfection analysis with a Cx43 promoter-driven lacZ reporter construct revealed negative regulation mediated by these two Tbx2 binding sites in osteoblast-like cells. Thus, downregulation of Tbx2 led to de-repression of wild-type Cx43 promoter activity, whereas a promoter construct with mutated binding sites showed no de-repression. In stably transfected osteosarcoma cells in which expression of the endogenous Tbx2 gene was downregulated with a Tbx2 antisense construct, a marked de-repression of the endogenous Cx43 gene was observed. This was accompanied by a marked increase in the abundance of Cx43 gap junctions and increased functional gap junction-mediated cell-cell communication. Analysis of lacZ expression in transgenic mice containing the mutated Cx43 promoter-driven lacZ construct further suggested de-repression of the Cx43 promoter in limb buds, a region destined to give rise to long bones of the limbs. Taken together, these findings indicate that the promoter of Cx43 is repressible by Tbx2, both in cultured osteoblast-like cells in vitro and likely in the developing embryo. |
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