Transcription Enhancer Factor 1 Binds Multiple Muscle MEF2 and A/T-Rich Elements during Fast-to-Slow Skeletal Muscle Fiber Type Transitions

Autor: Juan Ji, Richard W. Tsika, Aijing Zhang, Natalia G. Karasseva, Gretchen L. Tsika, Xiaoqing Mao
Rok vydání: 2003
Předmět:
Oligonucleotides
Mice
Cytosol
Genes
Reporter

Protein Isoforms
Luciferases
Promoter Regions
Genetic

MEF2 Transcription Factors
Myogenesis
Nuclear Proteins
TEA Domain Transcription Factors
DNA-Binding Proteins
Muscle Fibers
Slow-Twitch

medicine.anatomical_structure
Myogenic Regulatory Factors
Muscle Fibers
Fast-Twitch

Plasmids
Protein Binding
Transcriptional Activation
Mef2
Gene isoform
DNA
Complementary

Blotting
Western

Molecular Sequence Data
Biology
Transfection
Thymidine Kinase
Cell Line
Two-Hybrid System Techniques
medicine
Animals
Humans
Electrophoretic mobility shift assay
Muscle
Skeletal

Enhancer
Molecular Biology
Transcription factor
Gene Library
Cell Nucleus
Transcriptional Regulation
Binding Sites
Base Sequence
Models
Genetic

Skeletal muscle
Cell Biology
Blotting
Northern

Molecular biology
Rats
Mutagenesis
Desmin
Transcription Factors
Zdroj: Molecular and Cellular Biology. 23:5143-5164
ISSN: 1098-5549
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.15.5143-5164.2003
Popis: In adult mouse skeletal muscle, beta-myosin heavy chain (betaMyHC) gene expression is primarily restricted to slow type I fibers; however, its expression can be induced in fast type II fibers in response to a sustained increase in load-bearing work (mechanical overload [MOV]). Our previous betaMyHC transgenic and protein-DNA interaction studies have identified an A/T-rich element (betaA/T-rich -269/-258) that is required for slow muscle expression and which potentiates MOV responsiveness of a 293-bp betaMyHC promoter (beta293wt). Despite the GATA/MEF2-like homology of this element, we found binding of two unknown proteins that were antigenically distinct from GATA and MEF2 isoforms. By using the betaA/T-rich element as bait in a yeast one-hybrid screen of an MOV-plantaris cDNA library, we identified nominal transcription enhancer factor 1 (NTEF-1) as the specific betaA/T-rich binding factor. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay analysis confirmed that NTEF-1 represents the enriched binding activity obtained only when the betaA/T-rich element is reacted with MOV-plantaris nuclear extract. Moreover, we show that TEF proteins bind MEF2 elements located in the control region of a select set of muscle genes. In transient-coexpression assays using mouse C2C12 myotubes, TEF proteins transcriptionally activated a 293-bp betaMyHC promoter devoid of any muscle CAT (MCAT) sites, as well as a minimal thymidine kinase promoter-luciferase reporter gene driven by three tandem copies of the desmin MEF2 or palindromic Mt elements or four tandem betaA/T-rich elements. These novel findings suggest that in addition to exerting a regulatory effect by binding MCAT elements, TEF proteins likely contribute to regulation of skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle gene networks by binding select A/T-rich and MEF2 elements under basal and hypertrophic conditions.
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