Structures of regulatory regions in the human cytochrome P‐450scc (desmolase) gene
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- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 195 (2), 563-569
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1991.tb15738.x
Abstract
The mechanism of regulatory expression of human cytochrome P-450scc gene by cAMP was investigated in a transient expression system using Y-1 cells (mouse adrenal tumor cell line) and a chimeric DNA composed of the structural gene for bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase and the 5′ flanking upstream sequence of the cytochrome P-450scc (cholesterol desmolase) gene which was revealed to contain a DNA element(s) responsive to cAMP [Inoue, H. et al. (1988) Eur. J. Biochem. 171, 435–440]. Introduction of deletions and point mutations in the upstream regulatory sequence demonstrated that three regions were mainly required for response to cAMP. These regions contained a short similar sequence. All of them have a 5-bp motif GTCAT (or ATGAC) in common, and have at least two motifs which conserve four out of five base pairs of the consensus sequence of the cAMP-responsive element (CRE), CGTCA (or TGACG). They are all apparently necessary for regulation by cAMP. Gel mobility shift assays suggested that a binding factor(s) to these regions was present in the nuclear extracts of Y-1 cells and adrenal cortex tissues and appeared to be different from the somatostatin CRE-binding protein. Deletion analysis also suggested that the region around -44 was essential to the basal transcriptional activity. This region shows some similarity to the CTF/NF-1 binding site [Johnson and McKnight (1989) Annu. Rev. Biochem. 58, 799–839].Keywords
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