Two adjacent C/EBP-binding sequences that participate in the cell-specific expression of the mouse serum amyloid A3 gene.

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Li, X X

RESUMO

Serum amyloid A (SAA) is a major acute-phase protein synthesized primarily in the liver. Its expression, very low in normal animals, is increased several hundredfold following acute inflammation. To examine DNA sequences involved in liver-specific expression, 5'-flanking regions of the mouse SAA3 gene were analyzed by transient transfection, band shift, and DNase I protection assays. We found that a 56-bp fragment immediately 5' to the TATA box spanning the region -93 to -38 relative to the transcription start site was sufficient to confer liver cell-specific transcriptional activation onto a heterologous promoter in a dose-dependent and orientation-independent manner. This DNA fragment could form DNA-protein complexes with heat-stable nuclear proteins, and the complexes formed could be specifically competed for by excess oligomers corresponding to the C/EBP- or DBP-binding sites but not by binding sites for three other liver-specific factors, HNF1, HNF3, and HNF4. Footprint analysis using Hep3B nuclear extracts revealed two adjacent footprint regions within this 56-bp fragment, the distal region having at least fivefold-greater affinity than the proximal region. Identical footprint patterns were observed when purified recombinant C/EBP protein was used. These results indicated that binding of C/EBP to this 56-bp fragment plays an important role in vivo in enhancing expression of the mouse SAA3 gene in hepatocytes.

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