Serum response factor and protein-mediated DNA bending contribute to transcription of the dystrophin muscle-specific promoter.
AUTOR(ES)
Galvagni, F
RESUMO
The minimal muscle-specific dystrophin promoter contains the consensus sequence CC(A/T)6GG, or the CArG element, which can be found in serum-inducible or muscle-specific promoters. The serum response factor (SRF), which mediates the transcriptional activation of the c-fos gene in response to serum stimulation, can bind to different CArG box elements, suggesting that it could be involved in muscle-constitutive transcription. Here we show that SRF binds to the dystrophin promoter and regulates its muscle-specific transcription. In transient transfections, an altered-binding-specificity SRF mutant restores the muscle-constitutive transcription of a dystrophin promoter with a mutation in its CArG box element. The muscle-constitutive transcription of the dystrophin promoter also requires the sequence GAAACC immediately downstream of the CArG box. This sequence is recognized by a novel DNA bending factor which was named dystrophin promoter-bending factor (DPBF). Mutations of the CArG flanking sequence abolish both DPBF binding and the promoter activity in muscle cells. Its replacement with a p62/ternary complex factor binding site changes the promoter specificity from muscle constitutive to serum responsive. These results show that, on the dystrophin promoter, the transcriptional activation induced by SRF requires the DNA bending induced by DPBF. The bending, next to the CArG box, could promote interactions between SRF and other proteins in the transcriptional complex.
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