STRUCTURE OF THE GENE FOR HUMAN URACIL-DNA GLYCOSYLASE AND ANALYSIS OF THE PROMOTER FUNCTION

被引:24
作者
HAUG, T [1 ]
SKORPEN, F [1 ]
LUND, H [1 ]
KROKAN, HE [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV TRONDHEIM,UNIGEN,CTR MOLEC BIOL,N-7005 TRONDHEIM,NORWAY
关键词
URACIL-DNA GLYCOSYLASE; GENE EXPRESSION; PROMOTER FUNCTION;
D O I
10.1016/0014-5793(94)01042-0
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The gene for human uracil-DNA glycosylase (UNG) contains 4 exons and has an approximate size of 13 kb. The promoter is very GC rich and lacks a TATA box. Nested deletions of the promoter demonstrated that two SP1 elements and a putative c-MYC element proximal to the transcription initiation region were sufficient to support some 27% of the promoter activity, while a clone that in addition contained the elements E2F/SP1/CCAAT increased expression to almost 90% of the full-length construct. A region upstream of these elements appears to exert a negative control function.
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