Repression mediates cell-type-specific expression of the rat growth hormone gene.
AUTOR(ES)
Larsen, P R
RESUMO
A plasmid containing 1.8 kilobase pairs of rat growth hormone (rGH) promoter and upstream flanking sequences fused to the bacterial gene for chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) was transiently introduced into pituitary, fibroblast, and kidney cell lines. Significant CAT activity was detectable only in the pituitary cell lines, demonstrating that this relatively large fragment directs strongly cell-type-specific expression. However, plasmids containing only 200-300 bases of rGH promoter and flanking sequences directed expression of CAT in all three cell types, suggesting that upstream sequences directly repress the activity of a minimal rGH promoter in nonpituitary cell types. S1 nuclease analysis showed that the RNA synthesis directed by one of the short rGH promoter fragments in fibroblasts initiated from the site used by the natural promoter in pituitary cells. Insertion of rGH upstream sequences in their natural orientation upstream of the mouse metallothionein I promoter caused a decrease in its activity in fibroblasts by a factor of 4, but there was a 2.5-fold increase in its activity in pituitary cells. Insertion of the rGH fragment upstream of the thymidine kinase promoter in either orientation lowered its activity in both fibroblasts and pituitary cells. Thus, the negatively acting rGH flanking sequences can act on a heterologous promoter and have at least some of the properties of positively acting enhancers.
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