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Kuo DS, Labelle-Dumais C, Gould DB. COL4A1 and COL4A2 mutations and disease: insights into pathogenic mechanisms and potential therapeutic targets. Hum Mol Genet 2012; 21:R97-110. [PMID: 22914737 PMCID: PMC3459649 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/dds346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 202] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Heterotrimers composed of collagen type IV alpha 1 (COL4A1) and alpha 2 (COL4A2) constitute one of the most abundant components of nearly all basement membranes. Accordingly, mutations in COL4A1 or COL4A2 are pleiotropic and contribute to a broad spectrum of disorders, including myopathy, glaucoma and hemorrhagic stroke. Here, we summarize the contributions of COL4A1 and COL4A2 mutations in human disease, integrate knowledge gained from model organisms and evaluate the implications for pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic approaches.
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- Debbie S Kuo
- Department of Ophthalmology, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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Sumi E, Iehara N, Akiyama H, Matsubara T, Mima A, Kanamori H, Fukatsu A, Salant DJ, Kita T, Arai H, Doi T. SRY-related HMG box 9 regulates the expression of Col4a2 through transactivating its enhancer element in mesangial cells. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2007; 170:1854-64. [PMID: 17525254 PMCID: PMC1899455 DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2007.060899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Accumulation of alpha1(IV) and alpha2(IV) collagen is one of the characteristic pathological changes in glomerulosclerosis. Although the Col4a2 gene is known to have a 0.3-kb critical enhancer element with the GAACAAT motif, which transcription factor binds and transactivates this motif has not been identified. In this study, we found that SRY-related HMG box 9 (SOX9) was bound to the GAACAAT motif in the Col4a2 enhancer in vitro and in vivo in mesangial cells. SOX9 strongly activated this enhancer when cotransfected with Col4a2 enhancer-promoter construct in mesangial cells and Swiss/3T3 cells. Mutation in the GAACAAT motif eliminated the activation by SOX9. Furthermore, transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) treatment induced the expression of SOX9 and Col4a2, and a small interfering RNA against SOX9 reduced Col4a2 expression induced by TGF-beta treatment in mesangial cells. In vivo, we found that the expression of SOX9 was dramatically increased along with the expression of TGF-beta and Col4a2 in mouse nephrotoxic nephritis. These results indicate that SOX9 is essential for Col4a2 expression in mesangial cells and might be involved in the accumulation of alpha2(IV) collagen in experimental nephritis.
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- Eriko Sumi
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Kawahara-cho, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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Sund M, Maeshima Y, Kalluri R. Bifunctional promoter of type IV collagen COL4A5 and COL4A6 genes regulates the expression of alpha5 and alpha6 chains in a distinct cell-specific fashion. Biochem J 2006; 387:755-61. [PMID: 15598179 PMCID: PMC1135006 DOI: 10.1042/bj20041870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Type IV collagen is present ubiquitously in basement membranes. A bifunctional promoter regulates the expression of the alpha1/alpha2 genes, and the alpha3/alpha4 and the alpha5/alpha6 genes are also considered to be regulated by putative bifunctional promoters. Unlike the other type IV collagen chains, the alpha5(IV) and alpha6(IV) chains do not always co-localize and are present in distinct basement membranes. To address such dichotomy in the alpha5(IV) and alpha6(IV) gene regulation, we cloned a mouse genomic DNA fragment containing the promoter region between the two transcription start sites of these genes and we then placed this putative promoter sequence between the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase and Luciferase reporter genes, so that these genes would be transcribed in opposite directions in this unique construct. Glomerular endothelial cells and mesangial cells generate the kidney glomerular basement membrane, which always contains the alpha5(IV) chain but not the alpha6(IV) chain. In contrast, the basement membranes of Bowman's capsule and distal tubuli (produced by the tubular epithelial cells) contain the alpha6(IV) chain. We demonstrate that, in response to TGF-beta (transforming growth factor beta), epidermal growth factor, vascular endothelial growth factor and platelet-derived growth factor, expression from the alpha5(IV) gene is significantly enhanced in the glomerular endothelial cells and mesangial cells, but not expression from the alpha6(IV) gene. In contrast, the expression from the alpha6(IV) gene, and not that from the alpha5(IV) gene, was significantly enhanced in response to growth factors in the tubular epithelial cells. Our results demonstrate that the proximal bifunctional promoter regulates the expression of the alpha5(IV) and alpha6(IV) genes in a cell-specific manner and offers the first demonstration of the promoter plasticity in growth factor regulation of type IV collagen genes in different tissues of the body.
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- Malin Sund
- Center for Matrix Biology, Department of Medicine, DANA 514, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, U.S.A
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- Center for Matrix Biology, Department of Medicine, DANA 514, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, U.S.A
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- Center for Matrix Biology, Department of Medicine, DANA 514, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, U.S.A
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Cheng J, Grande JP. Transforming growth factor-beta signal transduction and progressive renal disease. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2002; 227:943-56. [PMID: 12486204 DOI: 10.1177/153537020222701102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) superfamily members are multifunctional growth factors that play pivotal roles in development and tissue homeostasis. Recent studies have underscored the importance of TGF-beta in regulation of cell proliferation and extracellular matrix synthesis and deposition. TGF-beta signaling is initiated by ligand binding to a membrane-associated receptor complex that has serine/threonine kinase activity. This receptor complex phosphorylates specific Smad proteins, which then transduce the ligand-activated signal to the nucleus. Smad complexes regulate target gene transcription either by directly binding DNA sequences, or by complexing with other transcription factors or co-activators. There is extensive crosstalk between the TGF-beta signaling pathway and other signaling systems, including the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways. The importance of TGF-beta in regulation of cell growth has been emphasized by recent observations that mutations of critical elements of the TGF-beta signaling system are associated with tumor progression in patients with many different types of epithelial neoplasms. TGF-beta has emerged as a predominant mediator of extracellular matrix production and deposition in progressive renal disease and in other forms of chronic tissue injury. In this overview, recent advances in our understanding of TGF-beta signaling, cell cycle regulation by TGF-beta, and the role of TGF-beta in progressive renal injury are highlighted.
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- Jingfei Cheng
- Renal Pathophysiology Laboratory, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Neugarten J, Acharya A, Lei J, Silbiger S. Selective estrogen receptor modulators suppress mesangial cell collagen synthesis. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2000; 279:F309-18. [PMID: 10919851 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.2000.279.2.f309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) are "designer drugs" that exert estrogen-like actions in some cells but not in others. We examined the effects of the SERMs LY-117018 (an analog of raloxifene) and tamoxifen on mesangial cells synthesis of type I and type IV collagen. We found that LY-117018 and tamoxifen suppressed mesangial cell type IV collagen gene transcription and type IV collagen protein synthesis in a dose-dependent manner, with a potency identical to that of estradiol. Type I collagen synthesis was also suppressed by LY-117018 in a dose-dependent manner with a potency identical to that of estradiol but greater than that of tamoxifen. Genistein, which selectively binds to estrogen receptor-beta in nanomolar concentrations, suppressed type I and type IV collagen synthesis, suggesting that estrogen receptor-beta mediates the effects of estrogen on collagen synthesis. Because matrix accumulation is central to the development of glomerulosclerosis, second-generation SERMs may prove clinically useful in ameliorating progressive renal disease without the adverse effects of estrogen on reproductive tissues.
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- J Neugarten
- Nephrology Division, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10467, USA
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Takeoka H, Iehara N, Uematsu-Yanagita M, Abe H, Sunamoto M, Yamada Y, Kita T, Doi T. A multifunctional transcription factor (A1p145) regulates the smooth muscle phenotype in mesangial cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1998; 252:290-5. [PMID: 9826522 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.9530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A1p145, a novel DNA binding protein for type IV collagen gene (COL4), has multiple functions including DNA replication factor C and DNA binding for several other genes. To elucidate the mechanisms underlying the differentiation process of mesangial cells (MCs), we investigated the effects of A1p145 on rat MCs. Cells in the early passages showed a smooth muscle-like phenotype such as low cell turnover, high levels of expression for COL4, and smooth muscle alpha-actin (SMA). Cells in the late passages lost their phenotype. The amount of binding activity to COL4 promoter was inversely correlated with the level of COL4 mRNA. Introduction of antisense for A1p145 into late passage cells enhanced the levels of mRNA for COL4 and SMA. The levels of proliferating cell nuclear antigen mRNA were also suppressed. These results suggest that A1p145 is a negative transcription factor for COL4 and may be a phenotypic modulator.
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- H Takeoka
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Division of Clinical Bio-regulatory Science, Division of Artificial Kidneys, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Kyoto, Sakyo-ku, 606, Japan
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Guo H, Majmudar G, Jensen TC, Biswas C, Toole BP, Gordon MK. Characterization of the gene for human EMMPRIN, a tumor cell surface inducer of matrix metalloproteinases. Gene 1998; 220:99-108. [PMID: 9767135 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(98)00400-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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EMMPRIN (extracellular matrix metalloproteinase inducer) also known as CD147 and basigin, is a member of the immunoglobulin family that is present on the surface of tumor cells and stimulates nearby fibroblasts to synthesize matrix metalloproteinases. Using our EMMPRIN cDNA, we have isolated a cosmid clone that contains the human EMMPRIN gene. S1 analysis with a fragment of the gene clone and primer extension of the mRNA was performed to determine the transcription start site. PCR and sequence analysis have defined the exon/intron organization of the gene and show that it is highly conserved with the mouse EMMPRIN/basigin gene. About 950 bases of the 5'-flanking region were examined for transcription factor consensus binding sites, locating three SP1 sites and two AP2 sites. The transcription start site was found to be located in a CpG island. Elements in the proximal promoter region were conserved in the human and mouse genes.
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- H Guo
- Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, Tufts Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Chen E, Yuan ZA, Collier PM, Greene SR, Abrams WR, Gibson CW. Comparison of upstream regions of X- and Y-chromosomal amelogenin genes. Gene 1998; 216:131-7. [PMID: 9714776 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(98)00300-x] [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: 11/15/2022]
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The amelogenin genes encode abundant enamel proteins that are required for the development of normal tooth enamel. These genes are active only in enamel-forming ameloblasts within the dental organ of the developing tooth, and are part of a small group of genes that are active on both sex chromosomes. The upstream regions of the bovine X- and Y-chromosomal and the sole murine X-chromosomal amelogenin genes have been cloned and sequenced, and conservation at nearly 60% is found in the 300 bp upstream of exon 1 for the 3 genes. A region of the bovine X-chromosomal gene that has inhibitory activity when assayed by gene transfer into heterologous cells includes motifs that have a silencing activity in other genes, and may be important to the mechanism that represses amelogenin expression in non-ameloblast cells in vivo. A comparison of sequences from three genes has led to the identification of several regions with conserved motifs that are strong candidates for having positive or negative regulatory functions, and these regions can now be tested further for interaction with nuclear proteins, and for their ability to regulate expression in vivo.
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- E Chen
- Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Silbiger S, Lei J, Ziyadeh FN, Neugarten J. Estradiol reverses TGF-beta1-stimulated type IV collagen gene transcription in murine mesangial cells. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 274:F1113-8. [PMID: 9841504 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1998.274.6.f1113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We have previously shown that estradiol suppresses types I and IV collagen synthesis by mesangial cells grown in the presence of serum. In the present study, we examined the interaction between estradiol and transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) on collagen IV synthesis. In a luciferase reporter gene construct containing the type IV collagen promoter and 1-chain regulatory sequences, we found that TGF-beta1 (2 ng/ml) stimulated alpha1-collagen IV gene transcription in serum-free media (140.5 +/- 6.2 relative luciferase units, expressed as a percent of control untreated cells, P < 0.001). Estradiol reversed the stimulatory effects of TGF-beta1 on reporter gene transcription in a dose-dependent manner [for 2.5 x 10(-9) M, 114.2 +/- 0.2, P < 0.002 vs. TGF-beta1; for 10(-7) M, 89.5 +/- 4.0, P < 0.001 vs. TGF-beta1 and P = not significant (NS) vs. control]. Using immunoprecipitation techniques, we found that estradiol (10(-7) M) reversed TGF-beta1-stimulated type IV collagen synthesis (175.3 +/- 14.7 vs. 111.6 +/- 7.1, expressed as a percent of control untreated cells, P < 0.001) but did not affect TGF-beta1-stimulated type I collagen synthesis (166.9 +/- 18.8 vs. 162.2 +/- 16.2, P = NS). These results were confirmed with Western blotting. Nuclear extracts from mesangial cells treated with TGF-beta1 showed increased binding to a Sp1 consensus binding sequence oligonucleotide and to an Sp1 binding site in the collagen IV promoter. Estradiol reversed this enhanced binding. These data suggest that estradiol antagonizes TGF-beta1-stimulated type IV collagen synthesis at a transcriptional level and that this effect may be mediated by interactions with the transcription factor Sp1.
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- S Silbiger
- Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10467, USA
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Porcellati F, Hlaing T, Togawa M, Stevens MJ, Larkin DD, Hosaka Y, Glover TW, Henry DN, Greene DA, Killen PD. Human Na(+)-myo-inositol cotransporter gene: alternate splicing generates diverse transcripts. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 274:C1215-25. [PMID: 9612208 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1998.274.5.c1215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Na(+)-myo-inositol cotransport activity generally maintains millimolar intracellular concentrations of myo-inositol and specifically promotes transepithelial myo-inositol transport in kidney, intestine, retina, and choroid plexus. Glucose-induced, tissue-specific myo-inositol depletion and impaired Na(+)-myo-inositol cotransport activity are implicated in the pathogenesis of diabetic complications, a process modeled in vitro in cultured human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells. To explore this process at the molecular level, a human RPE cDNA library was screened with a canine Na(+)-dependent myo-inositol cotransporter (SMIT) cDNA. Overlapping cDNAs spanning 3569 nt were cloned. The resulting cDNA sequence contained a 2154-nt open reading frame, 97% identical to the canine SMIT amino acid sequence. Genomic clones containing SMIT exons suggested that the cDNA is derived from at least five exons. Hypertonic stress induced a time-dependent increase, initially in a 16-kb transcript and subsequently in 11.5-, 9.8-, 8.5-, 3.8-, and approximately 1.2-kb SMIT transcripts, that was ascribed to alternate exon splicing using exon-specific probes and direct cDNA sequencing. The human SMIT gene is a complex multiexon transcriptional unit that by alternate exon splicing generates multiple SMIT transcripts that accumulate differentially in response to hypertonic stress.
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- F Porcellati
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
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Lei J, Silbiger S, Ziyadeh FN, Neugarten J. Serum-stimulated alpha 1 type IV collagen gene transcription is mediated by TGF-beta and inhibited by estradiol. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 274:F252-8. [PMID: 9486219 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.1998.274.2.f252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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We examined the hypothesis that fetal calf serum (FCS) stimulates murine mesangial cell alpha 1 type IV collagen (COL4A1) gene transcription by increasing autocrine production of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) through a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-dependent mechanisms. PDGF-stimulated COL4A1 gene transcription was inhibited by neutralizing antibody to TGF-beta (119.3 +/- 3.6 vs. 106.0 +/- 6.2 relative luciferase units, expressed as a percentage of control untreated cells, P < 0.003). FCS-stimulated gene transcription was inhibited by neutralizing antibody to PDGF (148.3 +/- 4.1 vs. 136.7 +/- 0.3 relative luciferase units, P < 0.002) and by neutralizing antibody to TGF-beta (148.3 +/- 4.1 vs. 127.1 +/- 3.4 relative luciferase units, P < 0.036). The inhibitory effect of combined treatment with anti-PDGF and anti-TGF-beta antibody on gene transcription was no greater than that of anti-TGF-beta antibody alone [129.5 +/- 0.53 vs. 127.1 +/- 3.4 relative luciferase units, P = not significant (NS)]. FCS-stimulated gene transcription was also inhibited by estradiol (10(-7) M) (148.4 +/- 3.1 vs. 119.4 +/- 8.1 relative luciferase units, P < 0.019). In the presence of estradiol, anti-TGF-beta antibody failed to further reduce serum-stimulated gene transcription (119.4 +/- 8.1 vs. 115.6 +/- 9.8, P = NS), suggesting that estradiol reverses FCS-stimulated COL4A1 gene transcription by antagonizing the actions of TGF-beta. Measurement of type IV collagen synthesis by Western blotting confirmed that the intact gene responded in a manner analogous to the promoter construct.
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- J Lei
- Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10467, USA
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Fukuda K, Hori H, Utani A, Burbelo PD, Yamada Y. Formation of recombinant triple-helical [alpha 1(IV)]2 alpha 2(IV) collagen molecules in CHO cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 231:178-82. [PMID: 9070244 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.6069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Collagen IV molecules represent a major structural component of basement membranes providing a network of support for the supramolecular structure. Like other collagens, collagen IV forms a triple-helical molecule composed of three alpha chains. Six different alpha chains exist for collagen IV, although the most common isoform consists of two alpha 1(IV) and one alpha 2(IV) chain. To understand the molecular mechanism of triple-helical formation of collagen IV, we expressed recombinant alpha 1(IV) and alpha 2(IV) mouse collagen chains in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. An expression vector containing the full length cDNA for the mouse alpha 1(IV) chain was stably transfected into CHO cells and a cell line, A222, which expressed recombinant alpha 1(IV) chains was selected. These A222 cells were then infected with a retroviral expression vector containing the mouse alpha 2(IV) chain and a cell line, A222-A2, stably expressing both recombinant alpha 1(IV) and alpha 2(IV) chains was obtained. Immunoprecipitation of A222 cell lysates revealed a high level of alpha 1(IV) chain monomer, which was unable to form a homotrimer. Analysis of A222-A2 cell lysates revealed the presence of both monomeric alpha 2(IV) and alpha 1(IV) chains as well as a higher molecular weight collagen IV species. Second dimensional SDS-PAGE analysis demonstrated that the high molecular weight species was a heterotrimer consisting of two alpha 1(IV) and one alpha 2(IV) chain. This heterotrimer collagen IV species was pepsin-resistant indicating the formation of a stable triple-helical structure. Pulse-chase experiments showed that the monomer alpha 1(IV) chain was secreted, but at a much slower rate than the heterotrimer. Together these results demonstrate that the alpha 1(IV) chain is not capable of forming homotrimers and suggest that the coexpression with the alpha 2(IV) chain is necessary to form a triple-helical structure.
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- K Fukuda
- Craniofacial Developmental Biology and Regeneration Branch, National Institute of Dental Research, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Grande JP, Melder DC, Kluge DL, Wieben ED. Structure of the rat collagen IV promoter. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1996; 1309:85-8. [PMID: 8950183 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(96)00134-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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We have isolated a 1.6 kb clone from a rat genomic library which contains the bidirectional collagen IV promoter, flanked by exons coding for the alpha 1 (IV) and alpha 2 (IV) collagen chains. There are at least two transcription start sites within both the alpha 1 (IV) and alpha 2 (IV) collagen genes. Rat mesangial cells were transfected with chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) reporter plasmids containing segments of the promoter and 5' flanking region, in both the alpha 1 (IV) and alpha 2 (IV) orientations. Our results suggest that transcriptional efficiency of the bidirectional promoter is more efficient in the alpha 2 (IV) direction than in the alpha 1 (IV) direction.
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- J P Grande
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Verma M, Murthy VV, Mathew S, Banerji D, Kurl RN, Olnes MJ, Yankaskas JR, Blass C, Davidson EA. Promoter of the canine tracheobronchial mucin gene. Glycoconj J 1996; 13:797-807. [PMID: 8910007 DOI: 10.1007/bf00702344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The mucin gene is up-regulated in diseases such as cystic fibrosis (CF) and asthma. To understand the mechanisms involved in transcriptional regulation of mucin gene expression we have characterized the region of the mucin gene up-stream of the transcriptional start site and analysed the cis-acting elements required for mucin promoter activity. We isolated clones from a dog genomic library containing the promoter region for the tracheobronchial mucin gene (TBM). The authenticity of the promoter was tested by nucleotide sequencing, primer extension analysis, electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) and reporter gene expression analysis. The canine TBM promoter is different from housekeeping gene promoters (as it is not rich in GC content and contains TATA- and CAAT-like sequences) and different from that of regulatory genes (because it contains many TATA- and CAAT-like sequences and multiple transcriptional initiation sites). Reporter gene analysis using canine TBM promoter-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) fusion plasmids established the regions responsible for promoter activity and verified the positions of the major mucin transcriptional initiation sites. Reporter gene analysis also established that a region of the canine TBM promoter and first exon containing all of the transcriptional initiation sites is more active in mucin expressing cells (e.g. CT1 cells-immortalized canine tracheal epithelial cells, human CFT1 cells-immortalized tracheal epithelial cells from a CF subject, or HBE1 cells-immortalized tracheal epithelial cells from non-CF subject) than in mucin non-expressing cells (COS7, 3T3), suggesting cell specificity. The promoter region contained cAMP response element (CRE) sequences, and the TBM gene transcription was enhanced when cAMP analogs were added to transfected cells. EMSA indicated the presence of at least two DNA binding proteins in CT1 cells. This is the first report describing the characterization of a TBM gene promoter. The information obtained in the present studies will be valuable in understanding mucin gene regulation in normal and pathological conditions.
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- M Verma
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
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Iehara N, Takeoka H, Yamada Y, Kita T, Doi T. Advanced glycation end products modulate transcriptional regulation in mesangial cells. Kidney Int 1996; 50:1166-72. [PMID: 8887274 DOI: 10.1038/ki.1996.424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) stimulate synthesis of extracellular matrix (ECM) in a receptor-mediated manner on mesangial cells. In the present study, we examined the transcriptional regulation of the gene for type IV collagen [(IV)collagen], which is one of the major components of mesangial sclerosis, after stimulation of AGEs on mesangial cells. The methylation pattern of the promoter/enhancer region of (IV)collagen gene was similar in AGE-treated and control cells. AGEs significantly increased the transcriptional activity of the (IV)collagen gene, as measured by transient transfection assays using the reporter gene construct containing (IV)collagen promoter/enhancer and the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene. AGEs also increased smooth muscle alpha-actin mRNA levels as well as its transcriptional activity. Nuclear factor binding of the promoter of (IV)collagen gene was stimulated by AGEs. Furthermore, AGEs dramatically decreased the mRNA levels of (IV)collagen promoter binding protein (MSW), a larger subunit of DNA replication complex, AP1. These results suggest that AGEs increase expression of (IV)collagen gene by modulating the levels of promoter binding proteins. These transcriptional events may play a critical role in ECM accumulation in response to AGEs.
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- N Iehara
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
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Iehara N, Takeoka H, Tsuji H, Imabayashi T, Foster DN, Strauch AR, Yamada Y, Kita T, Doi T. Differentiation of smooth muscle phenotypes in mouse mesangial cells. Kidney Int 1996; 49:1330-41. [PMID: 8731098 DOI: 10.1038/ki.1996.189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Smooth muscle alpha-actin (SMA) mRNA, a marker of vascular smooth muscle cells, was identified in the normal glomerular mesangium both in vivo and in vitro. Several populations of mesangial cells were studied to determine if SMA and basement membrane collagen were regulated together. The levels of SMA expression, which could be linked to the stage of differentiation, were different for the differing cell populations. One cell population had high SMA and type IV collagen levels at its early passages. The others expressed both interstitial and basement membrane collagens. The first population developed these phenotypic features at later passages. The levels of SMA and alpha 1(IV) collagen expression were regulated together in concert, whereas the alpha 2(I) collagen levels were expressed inversely to SMA and alpha 1(IV) collagen. Both SMA and type IV collagen were controlled by the methylation states of the cis-regulators; however, type I collagen was mainly regulated by the trans-acting regulators. Treatment with 5-azacytidine converted the cells of a fibroblast-phenotype to a smooth muscle cell-like phenotype. These cell lines may be useful for studying the differentiation process in vitro.
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- N Iehara
- Department of Clinical Bio-Regulatory Science, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
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Ziyadeh FN, Fumo P, Rodenberger CH, Kuncio GS, Neilson EG. Role of protein kinase C and cyclic AMP/protein kinase A in high glucose-stimulated transcriptional activation of collagen alpha 1 (IV) in glomerular mesangial cells. J Diabetes Complications 1995; 9:255-61. [PMID: 8573741 DOI: 10.1016/1056-8727(95)80016-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The elevated mRNA levels encoding matrix components in glomeruli isolated from streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats provide evidence that stimulation of matrix synthesis is important in early phases of diabetic glomerulopathy. We and others have demonstrated that high glucose stimulates collagen mRNA levels in short-term mesangial cell culture. To test whether transcriptional activation is operative and to gain insights into the underlying mechanisms, we studied a murine mesangial cell line stably transfected with a minigene expressing luciferase driven by 5'-flanking and first-intron regions of the alpha 1(IV) gene. High glucose stimulated luciferase activity dose and time dependently, with optimal stimulation (two-fold) achieved after 48 h in 450 mg/dL glucose (G450) versus 100 mg/dL (G100). We next tested the involvement of protein kinase C (PKC) because high glucose has been shown to stimulate de novo synthesis of diacylglycerol (DAG). Increasing PKC activity by treatment with a DAG analogue or active phorbol ester stimulated luciferase activity preferentially in G100; addition of the PKC inhibitors staurosporine or calphostin C markedly inhibited luciferase activity preferentially in G450. Thus high glucose promotes transcriptional activity of alpha 1(IV) gene through PKC activation. We also tested the involvement of protein kinase A (PKA). Intracellular cyclic AMP levels were increased two fold after 48 h in G450 versus G100, and addition of 8-Br-cAMP (0.1 mM) preferentially stimulated luciferase activity by almost three fold in G100 versus only 1.2-fold in G450. Hence, the signal-transduction mechanisms underlying the transcriptional activation of alpha 1(IV) gene in mesangial cells by high glucose are mediated by pathways involving the PKC system and possibly the cAMP/PKA system.
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- F N Ziyadeh
- Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104-6144, USA
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Savagner P, Krebsbach PH, Hatano O, Miyashita T, Liebman J, Yamada Y. Collagen II promoter and enhancer interact synergistically through Sp1 and distinct nuclear factors. DNA Cell Biol 1995; 14:501-10. [PMID: 7598805 DOI: 10.1089/dna.1995.14.501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The collagen II gene is expressed primarily in chondrocytes. Its transcription is activated through the interaction of cell type-specific regulatory elements located in the promoter region and in the first intron. In this study, we found that a short promoter sequence including two GC boxes was required for efficient enhancer-mediated transcription. Gel-shift analysis, site mutations, and footprint analysis showed that one of the GC boxes bound functionally to an Sp1-related factor and that an oligonucleotide containing this GC box did interact with an enhancer-nuclear factor complex. Additionally, an enhancer-derived oligonucleotide was found to complex CIIZFP, a zinc-finger protein that binds to the enhancer within the first intron and Sp1, but only in presence of CIIZFP. Antibodies against Sp1 specifically inhibited the formation of this complex. Western/Southwestern analysis also showed that a protein complex including Sp1 was able to bind the enhancer and the promoter regions in non-denaturing conditions. This complex was dissociated by denaturation. These results suggest that the formation of a nuclear protein-mediated loop structure between the promoter and enhancer may regulate transcription of the collagen II gene transcription.
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- P Savagner
- Laboratory of Developmental Biology, National Institute of Dental Research, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Leibiger IB, Walther R, Pett U, Leibiger B. Positive and negative regulatory elements are involved in transcriptional control of the rat glucokinase gene in the insulin producing cell line HIT M2.2.2. FEBS Lett 1994; 337:161-6. [PMID: 8287971 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)80265-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Nested deletion mutants of the 5' flanking region of the beta-cell transcription unit of the rat glucokinase gene (r beta GK) were fused to the CAT-reporter gene. Transient expression studies in HIT M2.2.2 and BHK21 cells revealed a distal (upstream of -359) and a proximal promoter region (between -278/-49) harbouring positive and negative regulatory elements. DNaseI footprinting revealed three protected areas between nucleotides -190 and -60. DNA-elements playing a crucial role in transcriptional control of the insulin genes (IEB- and CT-motifs) have been detected within the proximal promoter region and contribute to beta-cell specific gene regulation. 3' deletion analysis revealed that DNA-elements located downstream from transcription initiation sites (up to +123) contribute to transcriptional regulation.
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- I B Leibiger
- Institut für Biochemie, Klinikum, Medizinische Fakultät, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Germany
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Gow CH, Chang HY, Lih CJ, Chang TW, Hui CF. Analysis of the Drosophila gene for the laminin B1 chain. DNA Cell Biol 1993; 12:573-87. [PMID: 8397815 DOI: 10.1089/dna.1993.12.573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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We have isolated and sequenced a Drosophila genomic DNA that encodes the entire coding region of the laminin B1 chain. The genomic DNA sequenced spans 11,787 bp, including a 1.1-kb 5'-flanking region, 5 exons, 4 introns, and a 1.4-kb 3'-flanking region. The open reading frame is within the two largest exons, the exons 3 and 4, while the first two and the last exons are much smaller and are untranslated. The structure of the Drosophila laminin B1 gene is similar to the Drosophila laminin B2 gene. Their exon-intron lengths and Eco RI, Pst I restriction maps are quite conserved. Both of their open reading frames are very compact, and their first introns are much larger than all of the rest of the introns. These results are consistent with the suggestion that the B1 and B2 genes could be derived from an ancestral gene. The similarity of the proximal 5'-flanking regions of the Drosophila B1 and B2 genes is 46.6%. Also, similar sequences of transcriptional regulatory elements, even though not site conserved, are found in both proximal 5'-flanking regions of the B1 and B2 genes. When transfected into Drosophila SL-2 cells, pCAT plasmid containing 1,048 bp of 5'-flanking region shows a strong expression of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) activity. The deletion clones that contain sequences between nucleotides -462 to +150, and -282 to +150 all show strong CAT activity. These results suggest that this 5'-flanking promoter region may contain DNA sequences that can promote the expression of the laminin B1 gene.
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- C H Gow
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Chakravarti S, Hassell JR, Phillips SL. Perlecan gene expression precedes laminin gene expression during differentiation of F9 embryonal carcinoma cells. Dev Dyn 1993; 197:107-14. [PMID: 8219353 DOI: 10.1002/aja.1001970204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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F9 embryonal cells can be induced to differentiate and synthesize basement membrane proteins. Perlecan and laminin are two basement membrane constituents that have extensive regions of homology. Expression of perlecan and laminin B1 genes was followed during differentiation of F9 cells by measurements of transcription rate and mRNA abundance using nuclear run on assays and Northern hybridizations, respectively. The rate of precursor protein synthesis was determined by immunoprecipitation from lysates of pulse-labeled F9 cells. The results showed that perlecan gene expression responds more rapidly after induction than does laminin B1 gene expression but is ultimately expressed at a substantially lower level than laminin. Thus, the perlecan and laminin genes appear to be regulated by different mechanisms and their gene products are not made in stoichiometric amounts.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Bucladesine/pharmacology
- Carcinoma, Embryonal/chemistry
- Carcinoma, Embryonal/genetics
- Carcinoma, Embryonal/pathology
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/genetics
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/pathology
- Gene Expression/drug effects
- Gene Expression/genetics
- Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans
- Heparitin Sulfate/analysis
- Heparitin Sulfate/genetics
- Heparitin Sulfate/metabolism
- Laminin/analysis
- Laminin/genetics
- Laminin/metabolism
- Mice
- Proteoglycans/analysis
- Proteoglycans/genetics
- Proteoglycans/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Transcription, Genetic/genetics
- Tretinoin/pharmacology
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- S Chakravarti
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania
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Pogulis R, Freytag S. Contribution of specific cis-acting elements to activity of the mouse pro-alpha 2(I) collagen enhancer. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53803-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Henderson BR, Sleigh MJ. TATA box-independent transcription of the human tissue plasminogen activator gene initiates within a sequence conserved in related genes. FEBS Lett 1992; 309:130-4. [PMID: 1505676 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(92)81080-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Transcription of the human tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) gene has been reported to initiate from a single site proximal to a TATA box motif [1985, J. Biol. Chem. 260, 11223-11230]. In this study, we utilized primer extension analysis to evaluate the tPA mRNA start site in phorbol-12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) induced WI-38 human lung fibroblast cells. Whilst some tPA mRNA initiated from the predicted TATA-proximal location (+1), a 10-fold greater proportion of tPA mRNA transcripts initiated 110 bases downstream from a sequence conserved and utilized as the TATA-independent transcription start site in the rodent tPA genes. Moreover, the transfection and expression in different cell types of a cosmid containing the entire human tPA gene resulted in utilization of the same downstream (+110) start site. We propose that this, rather than the previously published position, is the major transcriptional initiation point for the human tPA gene. A core sequence (5'-CAGAGCTG-3') was identified which is common to the TATA-independent mRNA start sites of the human, mouse and rat tPA genes, and which demonstrates only partial similarity to sequences found at the initiation point of other TATA-independent genes.
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- B R Henderson
- Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, NSW, Australia
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Mariyama M, Zheng K, Yang-Feng TL, Reeders ST. Colocalization of the genes for the alpha 3(IV) and alpha 4(IV) chains of type IV collagen to chromosome 2 bands q35-q37. Genomics 1992; 13:809-13. [PMID: 1639407 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(92)90157-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Each type of basement membrane in man contains between two and five genetically distinct type IV collagens: alpha 1(IV)-alpha 5(IV). Genes for alpha 1(IV), alpha 2(IV), alpha 3(IV), and alpha 5(IV) have been isolated. We have recently isolated partial cDNAs for the fifth member of the family, designated alpha 4(IV). On the basis of comparison of the deduced peptide sequences of all five chains, the type IV collagens can be divided into two families: alpha 1-like, comprising alpha 1(IV), alpha 3(IV), and alpha 5(IV); and alpha 2-like, comprising alpha 2(IV) and alpha 4(IV). Genes encoding the alpha 1(IV) and alpha 2(IV) chains (COL4A1 and COL4A2) both map to human chromosome 13q34 and have been shown to be transcribed from opposite DNA strands using a common bidirectional promoter that allows coordinate regulation of the two chains. Indeed, these two chains are commonly found together in basement membrane and form [alpha 1]2.[alpha 2] heterotrimers. Whereas alpha 1(IV) and alpha 2(IV) have been found in all basement membranes studied hitherto, it has been shown that alpha 3(IV) and alpha 4(IV) are found in only a subset of basement membranes. In basement membranes where either of these molecules is present, however, they are found together. In view of this relationship and the structural similarities between alpha 1(IV) and alpha 3(IV) and between alpha 2(IV) and alpha 4(IV), we hypothesized that COL4A3 and COL4A4, the genes encoding alpha 3(IV) and alpha 4(IV), respectively, have a genomic organization similar to that of COL4A1 and COL4A2.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- M Mariyama
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06536-0812
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Chiang P, Burbelo P, Brugh S, Gordon R, Fukuda K, Yamada Y. Activation of collagen IV gene expression in F9 teratocarcinoma cells by 3-deazaadenosine analogs. Indirect inhibitors of methylation. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)42928-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Burbelo P, Bruggeman L, Gabriel G, Klotman P, Yamada Y. Characterization of a cis-acting element required for efficient transcriptional activation of the collagen IV enhancer. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)54569-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Tominaga S, Jenkins NA, Gilbert DJ, Copeland NG, Tetsuka T. Molecular cloning of the murine ST2 gene. Characterization and chromosomal mapping. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1090:1-8. [PMID: 1832015 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(91)90029-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The genomic locus of the murine ST2 gene was isolated based on homology with a murine ST2 complementary DNA sequence and its complete nucleotide sequence was determined. The locus is composed of eight exons and seven introns and is approx. 9 kilobase pairs in size. Two Sp1 binding sites are present in the 5' flanking region. The murine ST2 gene, which was expressed only in the growth-stimulated BALB/c-3T3 cells, was mapped to mouse chromosome one, very tightly linked to the interleukin 1 receptor-type 1 locus.
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- S Tominaga
- Department of Biochemistry II, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan
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Taub M. Retinoic acid inhibits basement membrane protein biosynthesis while stimulating dome formation by Madin Darby canine kidney cells in hormonally defined serum-free medium. J Cell Physiol 1991; 148:211-9. [PMID: 1831814 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041480205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The effect of retinoic acid on basement membrane protein biosynthesis and dome formation by Madin Darby canine kidney cells was examined. Retinoic acid inhibited the biosynthesis of laminin, collagen IV, and heparan sulfate proteoglycan by confluent MDCK monolayers in a hormonally defined serum-free medium. Retinoic acid inhibited laminin biosynthesis by as much as 70% after an 8 day incubation period. The inhibitory effect of retinoic acid on laminin biosynthesis preceded temporally the stimulatory effect of retinoic acid on dome formation. This observation is consistent with the existence of a causal relationship between these two phenomena. Not only did retinoic acid inhibit the biosynthesis of laminin, but in addition the biosynthesis of the cellular 67 kd laminin binding protein was inhibited.
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- M Taub
- Department of Biochemistry, State University of New York, Buffalo 14214
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Bruggeman LA, Horikoshi S, Burbelo PD, Yamada Y, Klotman PE. Physiology and cell biology update: mechanisms of type IV collagen gene regulation. Am J Kidney Dis 1991; 18:134-9. [PMID: 2063849 DOI: 10.1016/s0272-6386(12)80305-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Killen PD, DeMeester CA, Long RA, O’Brien E, Grande JP. Regulation of Collagen IV Expression. Nephrology (Carlton) 1991. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-35158-1_116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Olsen AS, Geddis AE, Prockop DJ. High levels of expression of a minigene version of the human pro alpha 1 (I) collagen gene in stably transfected mouse fibroblasts. Effects of deleting putative regulatory sequences in the first intron. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)35290-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Ryan MC, Sieraski M, Sandell LJ. The human type II procollagen gene: identification of an additional protein-coding domain and location of potential regulatory sequences in the promoter and first intron. Genomics 1990; 8:41-8. [PMID: 2081599 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(90)90224-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The complete DNA sequence (6 kb) of the 5' portion of the human type II procollagen gene (COL2A1) was determined from the promoter through the third exon including intron sequences and 690 bp of 5' flanking sequence. Three regions between -501 and -649 in the human promoter share high sequence homology to the rat type II procollagen gene and suggest that the functional sequences within the promoter may extend to at least 649 bp upstream from the start site of transcription. The first intron of the human gene contains elements known to play a role in transcription of other genes: three GC boxes, an inverted repeat with homology to a serum responsive element, a viral core enhancer motif, a high-affinity recognition sequence for nuclear factor-1, and an alternating purine/pyrimidine stretch composed of GT repeats. Both the promoter and a portion of the first intron have a high percentage of G + C residues and a high frequency of CpG dinucleotides. In addition, a protein domain that has been identified in the human COL2A1 gene is present in pro-alpha 1(I) and pro-alpha 1(III) collagen but was not previously described for pro-alpha 1(II) collagen. On the basis of this new information we present a modified gene structure for the exons encoding the pro-alpha 1(II) collagen NH2-propeptide.
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- M C Ryan
- Department of Biochemistry, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612
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Sherwood AL, Bottenus RE, Martzen MR, Bornstein P. Structural and functional analysis of the first intron of the human alpha 2(I) collagen-encoding gene. Gene 1990; 89:239-44. [PMID: 2129528 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(90)90011-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The nucleotide (nt) sequence of the first intron of the human alpha 2(I) collagen-encoding gene (COL1A2) has been determined from its 5' terminus (nt 207) to nt 2045 with respect to the transcription start point. Although the first intron contains elements known to function in transcriptional regulation of other genes (two AP1-binding sites and an alternating GT stretch), comparison of this sequence with that of the mouse COL1A2 first intron revealed a low degree of nt sequence identity and very few common DNA-protein binding motifs. In keeping with this structural analysis, the human intron was found to inhibit COL1A2 promoter activity in transfection experiments, whereas a strong enhancer was reported to be present in the first intron of mouse COL1A2 [Rossi and deCrombrugghe, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84 (1987) 5590-5594]. We conclude that the high degree of nt sequence conservation existing in the promoter and first exons of human, mouse and chicken COL1A2 does not extend to the first introns of these genes but that the promoter activity of COL1A2 is strongly influenced by the presence of the first intron.
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- A L Sherwood
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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Burbelo PD, Horikoshi S, Yamada Y. DNA methylation and collagen IV gene expression in F9 teratocarcinoma cells. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)34049-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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BURBELO PETERD, BRUGGEMAN LESLIE, KLOTMAN PAUL, YAMADA YOSHIHIKO. Characterization of the Collagen IV Enhancer. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1990. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1990.tb17961.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Lane LK, Shull MM, Whitmer KR, Lingrel JB. Characterization of two genes for the human Na,K-ATPase beta subunit. Genomics 1989; 5:445-53. [PMID: 2559024 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(89)90008-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A total of 29 human genomic DNA clones that hybridize with cDNAs for the sheep and rat Na,K-ATPase beta subunits have been isolated, classified by restriction endonuclease mapping and Southern blot hybridization analysis, and sequenced. One class of clones, designated ATP1BL1, represents a processed pseudogene for the beta subunit. The second class, designated ATP1B, includes 15 overlapping genomic clones and represents a functional gene for the human Na,K-ATPase beta subunit. ATP1B spans about 26.7 kb of genomic DNA and includes 24 kb of intron sequence. The complete mRNA transcript for the human beta subunit is encoded by six exons, ranging in size from 81 to 1427 bp. Primer extension and S1 nuclease protection experiments with human kidney RNA indicate the presence of two major transcription initiation sites at -510 and -201 to -191, with minor initiation sites at -268, -182 to -174, and -142. The distal initiation site at -510 is preceded by consensus sequences for CAAT and TATA boxes. The DNA sequence preceding the proximal heterogeneous initiation sites contains a CAAT box, but no TATA box. Two of the 12 GC boxes (GGCGGG and CCCGCC) located in the 5' region of ATP1B are located between this CAAT box and the proximal clusters of transcription initiation sites.
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- L K Lane
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio 45267
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Timpl R. Structure and biological activity of basement membrane proteins. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1989; 180:487-502. [PMID: 2653817 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1989.tb14673.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 711] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Collagen type IV, laminin, heparan sulfate proteoglycans, nidogen (entactin) and BM-40 (osteonectin, SPARC) represent major structural proteins of basement membranes. They are well-characterized in their domain structures, amino acid sequences and potentials for molecular interactions. Such interactions include self-assembly processes and heterotypic binding between individual constituents, as well as binding of calcium (laminin, BM-40) and are likely to be used for basement membrane assembly. Laminin, collagen IV and nidogen also possess several cell-binding sites which interact with distinct cellular receptors. Some evidence exists that those interactions are involved in the control of cell behaviour. These observations have provided a more defined understanding of basement membrane function and the definition of new research goals in the future.
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- R Timpl
- Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried
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Cutting GR, Kazazian HH, Antonarakis SE, Killen PD, Yamada Y, Francomano CA. Macrorestriction mapping of COL4A1 and COL4A2 collagen genes on human chromosome 13q34. Genomics 1988; 3:256-63. [PMID: 3224982 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(88)90086-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The genes for the alpha-1 and alpha-2 chains of type IV collagen (COL4A1 and COL4A2) map to the same chromosomal band (13q34) and have a high degree of nucleotide homology. We have used pulsed field gel electrophoresis and cloned COL4A1 and COL4A2 DNA fragments as molecular probes to construct a 1200-kb macrorestriction map which encompasses both genes. The two genes are located within a 340-kb region with the 3' end of COL4A2 and the 5' region of COL4A1 separated by at least 100 kb but not more than 160 kb. These genes, therefore, are two members of a gene cluster on chromosome 13q34.
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- G R Cutting
- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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