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Dukhanina EA, Portseva TN, Pankratova EV, Soshnikova NV, Stepchenko AG, Dukhanin AS, Georgieva SG. Oct-1 modifies S100A4 exchange between intra- and extracellular compartments in Namalwa cells and increases their sensitivity to glucocorticoids. Cell Cycle 2016; 15:1471-8. [PMID: 27096393 DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2016.1175260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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S100A4, a small intra- and extracellular Ca(2+)-binding protein, is involved in tumor progression and metastasis with S100A4 level shown to be correlated with tumor cells metastatic potential. Simultaneously, Octamer transcription factor 1 (Oct-1) regulates a wide range of genes and participates in tumor cell progression with high Oct-1 level associated with a poor prognosis for different tumors. In this study, following the establishment of Oct-1 binding site, we used Burkit lymphoma B cells (Namalwa cells) which express different isoforms of Oct-1 (Oct-1A, Oct-1L and Oct-1X) to investigate the role of Oct-1 in S100A4 expression and sustaining intra- and extra-cellular S100A4 levels. As antitumor agents, we used dexamethasone which effect is mediated by the activation of intracellular glucocorticoid receptors and camptothecin which molecular target is nuclear DNA topoisomerase I (TOP1). We established that, firstly, the most significant increase in S100A4 gene expression has been demonstrated in the cells transfected with Oct-1A. Secondly, we have established that high level of Oct-1 and decreased intracellular S100A4 level decline the survival of Namalwa cells under dexamethasone treatment. Thirdly, we have shown that the tumor cells transformation by different Oct-1 isoforms retained those cells' sensitivity to the antitumor effect of combined dexamethasone and camptothecin. In contrast, in the non-transformed Namalwa cells, dexamethasone decreased the camptothecin effect on the cells survivorship, thus, emphasizing Oct-1 role in the regulation of cell response to different antitumor agents. The results identify a necessity to consider Oct-1 level for combined chemotherapeutic drug treatment.
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- Elena A Dukhanina
- a Department of Transcription Factors , Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow , Russia
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- a Department of Transcription Factors , Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow , Russia
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- a Department of Transcription Factors , Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow , Russia
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- a Department of Transcription Factors , Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow , Russia
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- a Department of Transcription Factors , Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow , Russia
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- b Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Radiobiology , Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University , Moscow , Russia
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- a Department of Transcription Factors , Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow , Russia
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Mesplède T, Island ML, Christeff N, Petek F, Doly J, Navarro S. The POU transcription factor Oct-1 represses virus-induced interferon A gene expression. Mol Cell Biol 2005; 25:8717-31. [PMID: 16166650 PMCID: PMC1265735 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.25.19.8717-8731.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Alpha interferon (IFN-alpha) and IFN-beta are able to interfere with viral infection. They exert a vast array of biologic functions, including growth arrest, cell differentiation, and immune system regulation. This regulation extends from innate immunity to cellular and humoral adaptive immune responses. A strict control of expression is needed to prevent detrimental effects of unregulated IFN. Multiple IFN-A subtypes are coordinately induced in human and mouse cells infected by virus and exhibit differences in expression of their individual mRNAs. We demonstrated that the weakly expressed IFN-A11 gene is negatively regulated after viral infection, due to a distal negative regulatory element, binding homeoprotein pituitary homeobox 1 (Pitx1). Here we show that the POU protein Oct-1 binds in vitro and in vivo to the IFN-A11 promoter and represses IFN-A expression upon interferon regulatory factor overexpression. Furthermore, we show that Oct-1-deficient MEFs exhibit increased in vivo IFN-A gene expression and increased antiviral activity. Finally, the IFN-A expression pattern is modified in Oct-1-deficient MEFs. The broad representation of effective and potent octamer-like sequences within IFN-A promoters suggests an important role for Oct-1 in IFN-A regulation.
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- Thibault Mesplède
- Laboratoire de Régulation de la Transcription et Maladies Génétiques, CNRS, UPR 2228, UFR Biomédicale des Saints-Pères, Université René Descartes, 45 Rue des Saints-Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
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Zhao FQ, Zheng Y, Dong B, Oka T. Cloning, genomic organization, expression, and effect on beta-casein promoter activity of a novel isoform of the mouse Oct-1 transcription factor. Gene 2004; 326:175-87. [PMID: 14729276 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2003.10.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The ubiquitously expressed transcription factor Oct-1, a member of the POU domain factors, is involved in the regulation of expression of many tissue-specific and house-keeping genes. Multiple alternatively spliced isoforms of Oct-1 have been identified in human and mouse cells. The expression patterns of these isoforms and the analysis of their genomic organization and structure have suggested that the structural variation of Oct-1 isoforms may be important in conferring target and tissue specificity to its transcriptional activity. In this study, we have cloned and sequenced a new mouse Oct-1 isoform, named mOct-1Z. This novel isoform differs markedly at the C-terminus from the previously identified Oct-1 isoforms A, B, and C. It is generated by alternative splicing from the Oct-1 gene and its transcript exhibits a frameshift followed by an early stop codon, thus, its predicted protein has a distinct, much shorter C-terminal tail. However, this truncated isoform could still effectively bind to a consensus Oct-1 motif oligonucleotide and, like Oct-1B, activated the basal promoter activity of the mouse beta-casein gene. Oct-1Z is another ubiquitously expressed Oct-1 isoform, its transcript being detected in all mouse tissues examined, including the mammary gland, liver, lung, kidney, spleen, small intestine mucosa, uterus, and ovary.
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- Feng-Qi Zhao
- Lactation and Mammary Gland Biology Group, Department of Animal Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA.
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Wang VEH, Schmidt T, Chen J, Sharp PA, Tantin D. Embryonic lethality, decreased erythropoiesis, and defective octamer-dependent promoter activation in Oct-1-deficient mice. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:1022-32. [PMID: 14729950 PMCID: PMC321444 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.3.1022-1032.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Oct-1 is a sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factor that is believed to regulate a large group of tissue-specific and ubiquitous genes. Both Oct-1 and the related but tissue-restricted Oct-2 protein bind to a DNA sequence termed the octamer motif (5'-ATGCAAAT-3') with equal affinity in vitro. To address the role of Oct-1 in vivo, an Oct-1-deficient mouse strain was generated by gene targeting. Oct-1-deficient embryos died during gestation, frequently appeared anemic, and suffered from a lack of Ter-119-positive erythroid precursor cells. This defect was cell intrinsic. Fibroblasts derived from these embryos displayed a dramatic decrease in Oct-1 DNA binding activity and a lack of octamer-dependent promoter activity in transient transfection assays. Interestingly, several endogenous genes thought to be regulated by Oct-1 showed no change in expression. When crossed to Oct-2(+/-) animals, transheterozygotes were recovered at a very low frequency. These findings suggest a critical role for Oct-1 during development and a stringent gene dosage effect with Oct-2 in mediating postnatal survival.
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- Victoria E H Wang
- Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA
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Sebastian S, White JA, Wilson JE. Characterization of the rat type III hexokinase gene promoter. A functional octamer 1 motif is critical for basal promoter activity. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:31700-6. [PMID: 10531380 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.44.31700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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A 1532-base pair 5'-flanking region of the gene encoding rat type III hexokinase has been cloned and sequenced. The total sequence includes positions -1548 to -17 (A of the translational start ATG as position +1). Using luciferase reporter constructs transfected into PC12 (rat pheochromocytoma) and L2 (rat lung) cells, basal promoter activity has been associated with sequence between -182 and -89. This includes a single transcriptional start site, an adenine at position -134 identified by primer extension. Together with previously cloned cDNA sequence, this accounts for an mRNA of approximately 3.9 kilobases, found by Northern blotting of RNA from rat lung and kidney. Sequence upstream of the transcriptional start site was devoid of canonical TATA and CAAT elements. An octamer 1 (Oct-1) binding site, located between positions -166 and -159 was shown by deletion analysis and site-directed mutation to be critical for promoter activity. Nuclear extracts from PC12 cells contained a protein (or proteins) specifically binding the octamer sequence, and supershift experiments with anti-Oct-1 indicated involvement of this ubiquitously expressed transcription factor in the complex. Sequence including the Oct-1 site and immediately adjacent regions was protected from DNase I digestion in footprinting experiments with nuclear extracts from PC12 cells. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction indicated that levels of type III hexokinase mRNA in rat tissues increased in the order brain < liver < lung approximately kidney; immunoblotting indicated that type III hexokinase protein in these tissues increased in a similar manner.
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- S Sebastian
- Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1319, USA
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Bergstrom DE, Gagnon LH, Eicher EM. Genetic and physical mapping of the dreher locus on mouse chromosome 1. Genomics 1999; 59:291-9. [PMID: 10444330 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1999.5873] [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: 11/22/2022]
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Mutations in the mouse dreher (dr) gene cause skeletal defects, hyperactivity, abnormal gait, deafness, white belly spotting, and hypoplasia of Müllerian duct derivatives. To map dr to high resolution, we utilized two crosses. Initially, we analyzed an intersubspecific intercross to construct a detailed genetic map of simple sequence length polymorphism markers within a 6.3-cM region surrounding the dr locus. Subsequently, we analyzed a second intersubspecific intercross segregating for the dr(6J) allele, which positioned dr within a 0.13-cM region between Rxrg and D1Mit370. A physical contig of BAC clones spanning the dr critical region was constructed, and eight potential dr candidate genes were excluded by genetic or physical mapping. Together these results lay the foundation for positional cloning of the dr gene.
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- D E Bergstrom
- The Jackson Laboratory, 600 Main Street, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, USA
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Riss J, Laskov R. Expression of novel alternatively spliced isoforms of the oct-1 transcription factor. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1999; 1444:295-8. [PMID: 10023087 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(98)00280-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Analysis of the alternatively spliced isoforms of the human and mouse oct-1 genes, combined with their exon-intron structure, show a high level of evolutionary conservation between these two species. The differential expression of several oct-1 isoforms was examined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction performed on the 3' region of the murine oct-1 cDNA. Variations in the relative levels and patterns of expression of the isoforms were found among different tissues. Three novel isoforms originating from the 3'-distal region of oct-1, were isolated and sequenced: Two were derived from testis, and one from myeloma cells. Splicing out of different exons as revealed in the structure of these isoforms results in reading frameshifts that presumably lead to the expression of shortened Oct-1 proteins, with distinct C-terminal tails. Altogether, six out of the eight known murine oct-1 isoforms may have distinct C-termini, implying that these multiple tails have different functional roles in cellular differentiation and physiology.
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- J Riss
- The Hubert Humphrey Center for Experimental Medicine and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
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Lakich MM, Diagana TT, North DL, Whalen RG. MEF-2 and Oct-1 bind to two homologous promoter sequence elements and participate in the expression of a skeletal muscle-specific gene. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:15217-26. [PMID: 9614136 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.24.15217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The murine adult IIB myosin heavy chain (IIB MyHC) gene is expressed only in certain skeletal muscle fibers. Within the proximal promoter are two A + T-rich motifs, mAT1 and mAT2, which greatly enhance muscle-specific transcription; myogenic cells contain proteins that bind to these sequences. MEF-2 binds to both mAT1 and mAT2; a mutation abolishing its binding to mAT1 greatly diminishes the activity of the promoter. Both mAT motifs also form complexes with a protein requiring a target sequence typical of POU domain proteins, which migrate in electrophoretic mobility shift assays to the same position as a complex containing purified Oct-1 and which are supershifted by an antibody specific to Oct-1; this protein is therefore probably Oct-1. Footprinting experiments demonstrate that mAT1 is preferentially occupied by MEF-2 and mAT2 by Oct-1 and that these two proteins appear to bind cooperatively to their respective sites. Although the two mAT motifs have sequences that are very similar, they nonetheless exhibit distinct behaviors and perform differently in the activation of the promoter. The contribution of the IIB MyHC gene to specification of the myogenic phenotype is thus at least in part regulated by MEF-2 and Oct-1.
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- M M Lakich
- Unité de Biochimie, Département de Biologie Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, 28 rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France.
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Blanchard AD, Sinanan A, Parmantier E, Zwart R, Broos L, Meijer D, Meier C, Jessen KR, Mirsky R. Oct-6 (SCIP/Tst-1) is expressed in Schwann cell precursors, embryonic Schwann cells, and postnatal myelinating Schwann cells: comparison with Oct-1, Krox-20, and Pax-3. J Neurosci Res 1996; 46:630-40. [PMID: 8951674 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4547(19961201)46:5<630::aid-jnr11>3.0.co;2-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The POU domain transcription factor Oct-6 (SCIP/Tst-1) is likely to control important stages of Schwann cell development, including the initiation of myelination around birth. Here, we use immunocytochemical and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction techniques to examine Oct-6 earlier in nerve development, to test the idea that Oct-6 has an additional role in Schwann cell precursors or early embryonic Schwann cells, a possibility raised by previous studies on transgenic mice. Consistent with this, we find low but unambiguous levels of Oct-6 mRNA and protein in Schwann cell precursors of mouse and rat (nerves from 12- and 14-day-old embryos, respectively), with expression levels gradually increasing during early Schwann cell development and towards birth. Unexpectedly, Oct-6 immunoreactivity is clearly present in nuclei of most myelinating cells at least as late as postnatal day 12. Furthermore, many nonmyelinating Schwann cells express Oct-6 in adult life. A comparison of Oct-6 mRNA with other Schwann cell transcription factors-namely, Oct-1, Krox-20, and Pax-3-reveals that each factor exhibits strong developmental regulation and a unique expression pattern in embryonic nerves. Therefore, they are likely to play distinct regulatory roles in early development of the Schwann cell lineage.
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- A D Blanchard
- Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, England
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Clark ME, Mellon PL. The POU homeodomain transcription factor Oct-1 is essential for activity of the gonadotropin-releasing hormone neuron-specific enhancer. Mol Cell Biol 1995; 15:6169-77. [PMID: 7565769 PMCID: PMC230868 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.15.11.6169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The mechanisms of specification of gene expression in a complex tissue such as the brain remain poorly understood. To provide a model system for the study of gene regulation in a specific subpopulation of differentiated neurons, we have derived cell lines from tumors created in transgenic mice by targeting simian virus 40 T antigen expression by using the regulatory regions of the gene for gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), a decapeptide released from specialized neurons in the hypothalamus. Transfections into the cultured GnRH-secreting hypothalamic neuronal cell line GT1 have identified a neuron-specific enhancer, 1.5 kb upstream of the GnRH gene, which binds multiple GT1 nuclear proteins. In particular, one AT-rich protein-binding region, AT-a, is critical for enhancer activity. In this study, we used electrophoretic mobility shift assays to detect a GT1 nuclear protein complex that binds the AT-a region. Close inspection of the AT-a bottom-strand sequence revealed homology to the octamer motif, a sequence known to bind members of the POU homeodomain transcription factor family. Although we demonstrate expression of a number of POU homeodomain genes in GT1 cells, a supershift assay with Oct-1 antibody demonstrates that Oct-1 is the protein binding the enhancer. Finally, specific mutations in the AT-a region that affected Oct-1 binding were correlated with decreased transcription. Thus, Oct-1 binds to the GnRH enhancer in vitro, and this binding is critical to the transcriptional activity of this neuron-specific enhancer in GT1 cells.
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- M E Clark
- Department of Reproductive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0674, USA
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