Oocyte-specific factors bind a conserved upstream sequence required for mouse zona pellucida promoter activity.
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Millar, S E
RESUMO
The zona pellucida of mouse oocytes, composed of three major glycoproteins (ZP1, ZP2, and ZP3), performs crucial functions at fertilization and in early development. The transcripts encoding mouse ZP2 and ZP3 are coordinately expressed and accumulate in oocytes during a 2-week growth phase prior to ovulation. The 5'-flanking regions of mouse Zp-2 and Zp-3 genes and their human homologs contain five short DNA sequences (4 to 12 bp) that are 60 to 100% identical and are approximately equidistant upstream of the TATAA box in the four genes. Mutation of these five elements (I, IIA, IIB, III, and IV) in Zp-luciferase constructs demonstrates that the 12-bp element IV, positioned approximately 200 bp upstream from the TATAA box, is necessary for high-level expression from the mouse Zp-2 and Zp-3 promoters after microinjection into the nuclei of 50-microns-diameter oocytes. Injection of minimal Zp-3 promoter constructs containing element IV in either orientation also resulted in high levels of reporter gene activity, suggesting that the element is not only necessary but also sufficient for expression from zona pellucida promoters. Oligonucleotides containing the conserved element from either Zp-2 or Zp-3 form DNA-protein complexes of identical mobility in gel retardation assays using extracts of oocytes but not other tissues. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that common factors binding to conserved element IV are involved in coordinate expression of the oocyte-specific Zp-2 and Zp-3 zona pellucida genes.
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