Histone hyperacetylating agents stimulate promoter activity of human choline acetyltransferase gene in transfection experiment

被引:13
作者
Chireux, M
Espinos, E
Bloch, S
Yoshida, M
Weber, MJ
机构
[1] CNRS,LAB BIOL MOLEC EUCARYOTE,F-31062 TOULOUSE,FRANCE
[2] UNIV TOKYO,DEPT BIOTECHNOL,TOKYO,JAPAN
来源
MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH | 1996年 / 39卷 / 1-2期
关键词
histone deacetylase; trichostatin; trapoxin; sympathetic neuron; CHP126; cell;
D O I
10.1016/0169-328X(96)00006-X
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Butyrate (5 mM), Trichostatin A (1 mu M) or Trapoxin A (30 nM) increased choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activity in cultured rat sympathetic neurons 3- to 8-fold in 2 days. On the contrary, the three drugs decreased ChAT activity in human CHP126 cells. Butyrate had little effect on ChAT mRNA level in these cells, suggesting post-transcriptional mechanisms for the decrease in ChAT activity. However, transient transfection experiments using CHP126 cells revealed that the M promoter, but not the R promoter, of human ChAT gene was activated 20- to 130-fold by the three hyperacetylating agents. A butyrate-responsive element was localized in the 1 kbp region upstream of exon M. Constructs containing in addition the genomic segment between exons M and 1 displayed maximal basal activity and inducibility by butyrate, suggesting the presence of butyrate-activated promoter/enhancer elements in this region. The stimulatory effects of butyrate and Trichostatin A were also observed in stably transfected CHP126 clones, suggesting that the chromatin environment was not preventing the induction of the endogenous ChAT gene by butyrate, Rather, the data suggest different chromatin organizations for the stable transgene and the endogenous ChAT gene.
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页码:68 / 78
页数:11
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