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Schwartz ML, Bruce J, Shneidman PS, Schlaepfer WW. Deletion of 3'-untranslated region alters the level of mRNA expression of a neurofilament light subunit transgene. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:26364-9. [PMID: 7592849 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.44.26364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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High levels of neurofilament (NF) mRNA expression are attained during early postnatal development and are a major determinant of axonal size. High level NF expression is also dependent upon axonal continuity since NF mRNA levels are down-regulated after nerve transection. This study shows that both postnatal up-regulation and axotomy-induced down-regulation are altered by deletion of 3'-UTR from the mouse light NF subunit (NF-L). Transgenes with (NF-L+) or without (NF-L-) 3'-UTR display similar patterns of neuron-specific expression but differ in their respective levels of expression. Whereas changes in the level of NF-L+ mRNA parallel those of the endogenous mouse NF-L mRNA, changes in the level of NF-L- mRNA differ from the pattern of endogenous NF-L expression during postnatal up-regulation and axotomy-induced down-regulation. Specifically, the NF-L- transgene undergoes a 3-fold aberrant up-regulation between embryonic days 15 (E15) and 18 (E18) and has lost its susceptibility to axotomy-induced down-regulation. Studies of transfected P19 cells show that 3'-UTR deletion leads to a severalfold stabilization of NF-L mRNA and an increase in steady-state mRNA level. The findings support the working hypothesis that the 3'-UTR contains determinants that alter stability and that stabilization of NF-L mRNA regulates the levels of NF-L mRNA in neuronal tissues and cells.
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- M L Schwartz
- Division of Neuropathology, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia 19104-6079, USA
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Twyman RM, Jones EA. The regulation of neuron-specific gene expression in the mammalian nervous system. J Neurogenet 1995; 10:67-101. [PMID: 8592273 DOI: 10.3109/01677069509083457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- R M Twyman
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, England
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Cohen-Salmon M, Tronche F, del Castillo I, Petit C. Characterization of the promoter of the human KAL gene, responsible for the X-chromosome-linked Kallmann syndrome. Gene X 1995; 164:235-42. [PMID: 7590336 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00481-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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We report on the first characterization of the human KAL promoter (pKAL), based on the analysis of a 2-kb fragment of the 5' flanking region. As determined by primer extension, transcription of the human KAL gene is initiated at two different sites in the quail embryonic neuroretina QNR/D cell line. The promoter region is G+C rich and contains a CCAAT box, two binding sites for the SP1 transcription factor and two AP2-binding sites, but no TATA box. It also shares a motif with several neural-specific genes. The ability of four deletion mutants to drive transcription of the heterologous chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT)-encoding gene was determined in transfection experiments. The mutant containing the KAL sequence from nt +2 to -435 demonstrated a tissue-specific, although weak, transcriptional activity only in the quail embryonic neuroretina K2 and QNR/D cell lines. Longer constructs did not confer any activity. Therefore, we suggest that this 437-bp segment of pKAL constitutes a neural-specific promoter which could be negatively controlled by upstream sequences.
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- M Cohen-Salmon
- Unité de Génétique Moléculaire Humaine, CNRS URA 1968, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Ryabinin AE, Sato TN, Morris PJ, Latchman DS, Wilson MC. Immediate upstream promoter regions required for neurospecific expression of SNAP-25. J Mol Neurosci 1995; 6:201-10. [PMID: 8672402 DOI: 10.1007/bf02736765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The promoter structure and regulation of Snap, a gene encoding the presynaptic t-SNARE SNAP-25 implicated in synaptic vesicle docking and fusion, was studied. Transcription start-site analysis revealed two major start sites located 42 nucleotides apart. Nucleotide sequence of a promoter region 2073 nucleotides upstream of the first transcription site contains three AP-1, one CRE sequence, and three Sp1-like sites close to the TATA box. Further upstream of these sites two TG repeats were found. The ability of regions within the 5' upstream sequence to promote basal neural-specific expression in tissue culture cells was evaluated using a series of constructs containing both Snap gene start sites with progressively restricted 5' sequence linked to the chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (CAT) reporter gene. CAT expression was maximal in neuron-like undifferentiated ND7 and PC12 cells transfected with constructs containing Snap sequences up to 127 bp from the start site. In contrast, nonneuronal fibroblast cell lines did not express significant amounts of CAT, suggesting that this short 127-bp sequence is sufficient to drive neural specific expression of SNAP-25. Band shift analysis of oligonucleotides spanning from -127 to -41 bp of the Snap promoter revealed three distinct DNA-protein complexes generated by brain nuclear extracts and one by liver nuclear extracts, indicating that transcription factors that bind to this 86-bp sequence located just upstream of the TATA box are involved in regulation of basal neurospecific expression of this gene.
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- A E Ryabinin
- Department of Neuropharmacology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Adams AD, Choate DM, Thompson MA. NF1-L is the DNA-binding component of the protein complex at the peripherin negative regulatory element. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:6975-83. [PMID: 7896848 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.12.6975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The peripherin gene, which encodes a neuronal-specific intermediate filament protein, is transcriptionally induced with a late time course when nerve growth factor stimulates PC12 cells to differentiate into neurons. We have defined a negative regulatory element (NRE) that has a functional role in repressing peripherin expression in undifferentiate and nonneuronal cells. Nerve growth factor-induced derepression of peripherin gene expression is associated with alterations in proteins binding to a GC-rich DNA sequence in the NRE as detected by the DNA electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA). We have utilized DNA affinity chromatography to purify from rat liver a 33-kDa DNA-binding protein that specifically recognizes the NRE. Microsequencing reveals identity with NF1-L, a member of the CTF/NF-1 transcription factor family. This protein forms a single complex when incubated with the NRE probe using EMSA analysis. The more slowly migrating complexes characteristic of crude undifferentiated PC12 cell extract are reconstituted by mixing the purified protein with the flow-through from the DNA affinity column, thereby demonstrating that protein-protein interactions are involved in complex formation. Supershift experiments incubating anti-CTF-1 antibody with undifferentiated PC12 cell extract prior to EMSA analysis confirm that NF1-L, or a closely related family member, is the DNA-binding protein component of the multiprotein complex at the NRE.
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- A D Adams
- Department of Cell Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232
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Chong JA, Tapia-Ramírez J, Kim S, Toledo-Aral JJ, Zheng Y, Boutros MC, Altshuller YM, Frohman MA, Kraner SD, Mandel G. REST: a mammalian silencer protein that restricts sodium channel gene expression to neurons. Cell 1995; 80:949-57. [PMID: 7697725 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(95)90298-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 893] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Expression of the type II voltage-dependent sodium channel gene is restricted to neurons by a silencer element active in nonneuronal cells. We have cloned cDNA coding for a transcription factor (REST) that binds to this silencer element. Expression of a recombinant REST protein confers the ability to silence type II reporter genes in neuronal cell types lacking the native REST protein, whereas expression of a dominant negative form of REST in nonneuronal cells relieves silencing mediated by the native protein. REST transcripts in developing mouse embryos are detected ubiquitously outside of the nervous system. We propose that expression of the type II sodium channel gene in neurons reflects a default pathway that is blocked in nonneuronal cells by the presence of REST.
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- J A Chong
- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, State University of New York at Stony Brook 11794-5230
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Hernandez MC, Erkman L, Matter-Sadzinski L, Roztocil T, Ballivet M, Matter JM. Characterization of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor beta 3 gene. Its regulation within the avian nervous system is effected by a promoter 143 base pairs in length. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:3224-33. [PMID: 7852408 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.7.3224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Genomic and cDNA clones encoding the chicken neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor beta 3 subunit were isolated and sequenced. The beta 3 gene consists of six protein-encoding exons and the deduced protein has the structural features found in all other members of the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit family. Although they are undetectable in most brain compartments, beta 3 mRNAs are relatively abundant in the developing retina and in the trigeminal ganglion. In situ hybridization and immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated that in retina, beta 3 transcripts and protein are confined to subpopulations of cells in the inner nuclear and ganglion cell layers. Beta 3 is expressed in the proximal and distal regions of the developing trigeminal ganglion, i.e. in both placode- and neural crest-derived neurons. Transient transfection assays in cells freshly dissociated from selected regions of the central nervous system at different developmental stages allowed the identification of genetic elements involved in the neuronal-selective expression of the beta 3 gene. A promoter fragment 143 base pairs in length and containing TATA, CAAT, and other consensus sequences is sufficient to restrict reporter gene expression to a subpopulation of retinal neurons. This promoter is totally inactive upon transfection into neuronal and non-neuronal cells from other regions of the central nervous system.
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- M C Hernandez
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Pierani A, Pouponnot C, Calothy G. Developmental control of transcription of a retina-specific gene, QR1, during differentiation: involvement of factors from the POU family. Mol Cell Biol 1995; 15:642-52. [PMID: 7823933 PMCID: PMC231922 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.15.2.642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Developmental control of gene expression often results from the coupling of growth arrest with the establishment of differentiation programs. QR1 is a gene specifically expressed in retinas during the late phase of embryogenesis. At this stage neuroectodermal precursors have reached terminal mitosis and are undergoing differentiation into distinct cell types. Transcription of the QR1 gene is tightly regulated during retinal development: this gene is expressed between embryonic day 9 (ED9) and ED17 and is completely repressed at hatching in quail. Moreover, QR1 transcription is downregulated when postmitotic neural retina cells are induced to proliferate by pp60v-src. We studied the stage-dependent transcriptional control of this gene during quail neural retina (QNR) cell development. Transient transfection experiments with QR1/CAT constructs at various stages of development showed that a region located between -935 and -1265 bp upstream of the transcription start site is necessary to promote transcription in retina cells during the late phase of embryonal development (QNR9, corresponding to ED9). By in vivo footprinting assays we identified at least two elements that are occupied by DNA-protein complexes in QNR cells: the A and B boxes. The A box allows formation of several biochemically distinct complexes: C1, C2, C3, and C4. Formation of the C2 complex mainly during early stages (ED7) and of C2, C3, and C4 complexes during postnatal life correlates with repression of QR1 transcription, whereas the C1 complex is strongly induced at ED11 when the QR1 gene is expressed. We previously showed that C1 was involved in downregulation of QR1 transcription by pp60v-src. Several complexes are also formed on the B box. We show that these complexes are exclusively present in neural tissues and that they involve members of the POU family of transcription factors. Mutations of each one of the two regions which abolish the binding of the C1 factor(s) on the A box and of the POU factor(s) on the B box also prevent stimulation of QR1 transcription in QNR9. Therefore, both elements appear to be required for the stage-specific transcription of the QR1 gene. We also show that the regulatory region from position -1265 to position -935 is able to confer stage-specific transcription upon a heterologous promoter (thymidine kinase). Indeed, this region stimulates transcription in differentiating retinas (QNR9) and represses transcription in terminally differentiated retinas (QNR17, corresponding to postnatal life). Our results suggest that cell growth regulation and developmental control are coordinated through the A and B boxes in regulating QR1 transcription during retinal differentiation.
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- A Pierani
- Unité de Recherche Associée 1443 du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Curie, Centre Universitaire, Orsay, France
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Faraonio R, Minopoli G, Porcellini A, Costanzo F, Cimino F, Russo T. The DNA sequence encompassing the transcription start site of a TATA-less promoter contains enough information to drive neuron-specific transcription. Nucleic Acids Res 1994; 22:4876-83. [PMID: 7800475 PMCID: PMC523751 DOI: 10.1093/nar/22.23.4876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The FE65 gene encodes a nuclear protein of unknown function that is expressed in several areas of the rat nervous system during development and in the adult animal, particularly in somatic and visceral ganglia. FE65 mRNA is abundant in neuronal cell lines, whereas it is barely detectable in non-neuronal cells. We identified the two transcription start sites of the FE65 gene and we isolated the rat genomic fragment containing one of these two transcriptional start sites. We demonstrate that this fragment contains a promoter able to direct an efficient transcription of a reporter gene in PC12 cells and in NTERA2 cells upon their differentiation with retinoic acid, whereas it functions poorly in non-neuronal cells, such as Rat2 fibroblasts and BRL hepatocytes. This promoter is composed of two regions. The first includes a cis-element whose removal greatly decreases the transcriptional efficiency in all cells examined and which forms similar complexes with proteins from PC12 and Rat2 cells. This cis-element binds Sp1 or another GC-binding factor. The second cis-element encompasses the transcription start site and is still able to direct transcription only in neuronal cells. The DNA-protein complexes formed by this cis-element in neuronal cells differ from those formed in non-neuronal cells. The analysis of point mutations in this region indicates that the proteins that bind to this cis-element interact with both overlapping and distinct nucleotide sequences.
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- R Faraonio
- Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
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Reinhard E, Nedivi E, Wegner J, Skene JH, Westerfield M. Neural selective activation and temporal regulation of a mammalian GAP-43 promoter in zebrafish. Development 1994; 120:1767-75. [PMID: 7924984 DOI: 10.1242/dev.120.7.1767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Neurons throughout the vertebrate nervous system selectively activate the gene for a growth cone component, GAP-43, during embryonic development, and then decrease its expression abruptly as they form synapses. Distal interruption of mature axons in the central nervous system (CNS) of fish and amphibians, but not in the mammalian CNS reverses the developmental down-regulation of GAP-43 expression. To explore functional conservation and divergence of cis-acting elements that regulate expression of the GAP-43 gene, we studied activation, in transgenic zebrafish embryos, of mammalian GAP-43 genomic sequences fused to a marker gene. The DNA fragments containing the GAP-43 promoter, including a short fragment of 386 base pairs, were preferentially activated in the embryonic fish nervous system at times when extensive neuronal differentiation and neurite outgrowth take place. After 2 days of development, expression of the mammalian transgenes was specifically downregulated in the fish spinal cord but increased in more rostral regions of the CNS. This expression pattern was well correlated with the regulation of the endogenous fish GAP-43 gene revealed by in situ hybridization. Elements of the mammalian gene located a substantial distance upstream of the minimal promoter directed additional expression of the marker gene in a specific set of non-neural cells in zebrafish embryos. Our results indicate that cis-acting elements of the GAP-43 gene, and signaling pathways controlling these elements during embryonic development, have been functionally conserved in vertebrate evolution.
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- E Reinhard
- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Wu H, Rozansky DJ, Webster NJ, O'Connor DT. Cell type-specific gene expression in the neuroendocrine system. A neuroendocrine-specific regulatory element in the promoter of chromogranin A, a ubiquitous secretory granule core protein. J Clin Invest 1994; 94:118-29. [PMID: 8040254 PMCID: PMC296289 DOI: 10.1172/jci117297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The acidic secretory protein chromogranin A universally occurs in amine and peptide hormone and neurotransmitter storage granules throughout the neuroendocrine system. What factors govern the activity of the chromogranin A gene, to yield such a widespread yet neuroendocrine-selective pattern of expression? To address this question, we isolated the mouse chromogranin A gene promoter. The promoter conferred cell type-specific expression in several neuroendocrine cell types (adrenal medullary chromaffin cells, anterior pituitary corticotropes, and anterior pituitary somatolactotropes) but not in control (fibroblast or kidney) cells. In neuroendocrine cells, analysis of promoter deletions established both positive and negative transcriptional regulatory domains. A distal positive domain (-4.8/-2.2 kbp) was discovered, as well as negative (-258/-181 bp) and positive (-147/-61 bp) domains in the proximate promoter. The proximate promoter contained a minimal neuroendocrine-specific element between -77 and -61 bp. Sequence alignment of the mouse promoter with corresponding regions in rat and bovine clones indicated that the mouse sequence shares over 85% homology with rat and 52% with bovine promoters. DNaseI footprinting and electrophoretic gel mobility shift assays demonstrated the presence of nuclear factors in neuroendocrine cells that recognized the proximate promoter. We conclude that the chromogranin A promoter contains both positive and negative domains governing its cell type-specific pattern of transcription, and that a small proximate region of the promoter, containing novel as well as previously described elements, interacts specifically with neuroendocrine nuclear proteins, and is thereby sufficient to ensure widespread neuroendocrine expression of the gene.
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- H Wu
- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego 92161
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Schwartz M, Katagi C, Bruce J, Schlaepfer W. Brain-specific enhancement of the mouse neurofilament heavy gene promoter in vitro. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)36852-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Bradley DJ, Towle HC, Young WS. Alpha and beta thyroid hormone receptor (TR) gene expression during auditory neurogenesis: evidence for TR isoform-specific transcriptional regulation in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:439-43. [PMID: 8290545 PMCID: PMC42964 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.2.439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Clinicians have long recognized that congenital deficiency of iodine (a component of thyroid hormone) somehow damages the human embryonic nervous system, causing sensori-neural deafness. Recently, a deletion encompassing most of the human beta thyroid hormone receptor (TR beta) gene has been found in children who are neurologically normal except for one striking defect: profound sensori-neural deafness. We now show that the TR beta gene is prominently expressed very early in rat inner ear development. This expression is remarkable because both TR beta 1 and TR beta 2 mRNAs are restricted, as early as embryonic day 12.5, to that portion of the embryonic inner ear that gives rise to the cochlea, the structure responsible for converting sound into neural impulses. The timing of this expression, when correlated with human inner ear development, raises the possibility that TRs may act in human ontogenesis earlier than previously suspected. These results provide a rare correlation between a specific human neurologic deficit (deafness) and transcription factor expression in a highly discrete embryonic cell population (ventral otocyst). TR alpha gene expression is also prominent in the developing cochlea, but, in contrast to the restricted pattern of TR beta gene expression, TR alpha 1 and TR alpha 2 transcripts are also found in inner ear structures responsible for balance. Deafness in children homozygous for a large deletion in the TR beta gene suggests that cochlear alpha 1 TRs cannot functionally compensate for the absence of TR beta 1 and TR beta 2. The developing inner ear may, therefore, represent an example of TR isoform-specific transcriptional regulation in vivo.
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- D J Bradley
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Chireux M, Raynal JF, Le Van Thai A, Cadas H, Bernard C, Martinou I, Martinou JC, Weber MJ. Multiple promoters of human choline acetyltransferase and aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase genes. JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY, PARIS 1994; 88:215-27. [PMID: 7874082 DOI: 10.1016/0928-4257(94)90084-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The promoter regions of human choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) genes have been analyzed by transient transfection assays. AADC gene is transcribed from two alternative noncoding first exons, 1N and 1NN, expressed in pheochomocytoma and hepatoma cells, respectively. 5' flanking sequences of exon 1 N (from 9000 to 147 bp) display promoter activity in SK-N-BE neuroblastoma cells, but not in MC-I-XC cholinergic neuroepithelioma cells, and in AADC-rich non-neuronal cells. On the contrary, 5' flanking sequences of exon 1 NN (from 1117 to 119 bp) display high promoter activity in human hepatoma cells HepG2, but not in SK-N-BE cells, suggesting high degrees of specificity of promoters N and NN for AADC-expressing neuronal and non-neuronal cells, respectively. Preliminary evidence suggests that leukemia inhibitory factor suppresses the activity of the neuronal promoter in cultured sympathetic neurons. Two alternative first exons, R and M, have been localized in human ChAT gene, and the corresponding promoters characterized in cholinergic PC12 and NG-108-15 cells, and in non-cholinergic neuro2A cells. Several positively or negatively acting cis elements have been localized in the two promoters, as well as a cAMP-inducible, enhancer-like element in the second intron. Among the various cell lines studied, there was no correlation between promoter activities and the expression of the endogenous ChAT gene, suggesting that the fine-tuning of ChAT gene expression is controlled by silencer elements which remain to be localized.
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- M Chireux
- Laboratorie de Biologie Moléculaire Eucaryote, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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Mandel G. Sodium channel regulation in the nervous system: how the action potential keeps in shape. Curr Opin Neurobiol 1993; 3:278-82. [PMID: 8396473 DOI: 10.1016/0959-4388(93)90118-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Multiple Na+ channel types, differing in functional properties, have been identified in the nervous system. The role of distinct alpha subunits in generating this functional diversity is discussed in light of the recent finding that the beta 1 subunit modulates Na+ channel function. Possible mechanisms involved in the regulation of the genes coding for the different subunits are also discussed.
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- G Mandel
- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11794
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