Regulation of estrogen receptor alpha gene mediated by promoter B responsible for its enhanced expressionin human breast cancer.
AUTOR(ES)
Tanimoto, K
RESUMO
We have previously reported that transcription from a distal promoter (promoter B) of the estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha) gene is responsible for the increased expression of ERalpha in human breast carcinomas. This paper first characterized the promoter B region in terms of transient transfection experiments with luciferase using MCF-7 cells. Gradual deletions from the 5'-end of promoter B resulted in a decrease in promoter activity corresponding to the deleted lengths; a deletion of 39 bp in a non-coding exon 1a, drastically diminished the activity, indicating existence of an important cis -element. Furthermore, electrophoretic mobility shift assay and subsequent mutational analysis indicated that this element containing nucleotide sequence CTGGAAAG forms a specific DNA-protein complex. This element was capable of transactivating a heterogeneous SV40 promoter in MCF-7 cells, confirming that the element is a transcriptional enhancer; the trans -acting factor binding to the element was named ERBF-1 (estrogen receptor promoter B associated factor-1). The ERBF-1 was exclusively expressed in those cells expressing ERalpha mRNA transcribed from promoter B. Our findings indicate that ERBF-1 plays an important role in the expression of the ERalpha gene transcribed from promoter B, which is selectively utilized in breast cancer.
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