Two regions of the mouse mammary tumor virus long terminal repeat regulate the activity of its promoter in mammary cell lines.

AUTOR(ES)

Lefebvre, P

RESUMO

In vivo expression of the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is restricted to a few organs, with the highest rate of transcription found in the mammary gland. Using a series of mammary and nonmammary murine cell lines, we have identified two regulatory elements, located upstream of the hormone responsive element, that specifically regulate the MMTV promoter. The first element displays an enhancerlike activity and is coincident with the binding of a nuclear factor (designated MP4; position -1078 to -1052 in the long terminal repeat) whose presence is apparently restricted to mammary cell lines. The second regulatory region mediates a repressive activity and is mapped to the long terminal repeat segment from -415 to -483. This repression is specific for a particular subtype of mammary cells (RAC cells) able to grow under two differentiation states (A. Sonnenberg, H. Daams, J. Calafat, and J. Hilgers, Cancer Res. 46:5913-5922, 1986). The MMTV promoter in mammary cell lines thus appears to be modulated by two cis-acting elements that are likely to be involved in tissue-specific expression in vivo.

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