PRIMING AFFECTS THE ACTIVITY OF A SPECIFIC REGION OF THE PROMOTER OF THE HUMAN BETA-INTERFERON GENE

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DRON, M
LACASA, M
TOVEY, MG
机构
[1] CNRS,UPR 274,VIRAL ONCOL LAB,7 RUE GUY MOCQUET,F-94801 VILLEJUIF,FRANCE
[2] CNRS,UPR 68,VIRUSES & DIFFERENTIAT,F-94801 VILLEJUIF,FRANCE
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10.1128/MCB.10.2.854
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Treatment of Daudi or HeLa cells with human interferon (IFN) α8 before induction with either poly(I)-poly(C) or Sendai virus resulted in an 8- to 100-fold increase in IFN production. The extent of priming in Daudi cells paralleled the increase in the intracellular content of IFN-β mRNA. IFN-α mRNA remained undetectable in poly(I)-poly(C)-treated Daudi cells either before or after priming. An IFN-resistant clone of Daudi cells was found to produce 4- to 20-fold more IFN after priming, indicating that priming was unrelated to the phenotype of IFN sensitivity. IFN treatment of either Daudi or HeLa cells transfected with the human IFN-β promoter (-282 to -37) linked to the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene resulted in an increase in CAT activity after induction with poly(I)-poly(C) or Sendai virus. A synthetic double-stranded oligonucleotide corresponding to an authentic 30-base-pair (bp) region of the human IFN-β promoter between positions -91 and -62 was found to confer virus inducibility upon the reporter CAT gene in HeLa cells. IFN treatment of HeLa cells transfected with this 30-bp region of the IFN-β promoter in either the correct or reversed orientation also increased CAT activity upon subsequent induction. IFN treatment alone had no detectable effect on the activity of either the 30-bp region or the complete human IFN promoter.
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