REPRESSION OF PREPROTACHYKININ-A PROMOTER ACTIVITY IS MEDIATED BY A PROXIMAL PROMOTER ELEMENT

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MENDELSON, SC [1 ]
MORRISON, CF [1 ]
MCALLISTER, J [1 ]
PATERSON, JM [1 ]
DOBSON, SP [1 ]
MULDERRY, PK [1 ]
QUINN, JP [1 ]
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[1] ROYAL EDINBURGH & ASSOCIATED HOSP, MRC, BRAIN METAB UNIT, EDINBURGH EH10 5HF, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND
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10.1016/0306-4522(94)00554-I
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Q189 [神经科学];
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The rat preprotachykinin-A promoter, which is able to direct reporter gene expression in adult dorsal root ganglia neurons grown in culture, has no detectable activity in HeLa and PC12 cells. DNAase 1 footprinting and electrophoretic mobility shift analyses with HeLa nuclear extract indicated the presence of a protein complex binding to a region of the rat preprotachykinn-A gene promoter between the TATA box and the major transcriptional start site. We demonstrate that the sequence of the preprotachykinin-A promoter spanning nucleotides -47 to +92 functions to repress reporter gene expression in HeLa and PC12 cells but not in adult rat dorsal root ganglia grown in culture, and that this repression is correlated with a protein(s) binding to the element between the TATA box and major transcription initiation site. These results indicate that the tissue-specific expression of the preprotachykinin-A gene could require the interaction of both positive and negative regulatory DNA elements.
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