Abstract:
:Lactogenic hormones and extracellular matrix (ECM) act synergistically to regulate beta-casein expression in culture. We have developed a functional subpopulation of the mouse mammary epithelial cell strain COMMA-1D (designated CID 9), which expresses high level of beta-casein, forms alveolar-like structures when plated onto the EHS tumor-derived matrix, and secretes beta-casein unidirectionally into a lumen. We have further shown that ECM- and prolactin-dependent regulations of beta-casein occur mainly at the transcriptional level and that 5' sequences play an important role in these regulations. To address the question of the nature of the DNA sequence requirements for such regulation, we analyzed the bovine beta-casein gene promoter in these cells. We now have located a 160-bp transcriptional enhancer (BCE1) within the 5' flanking region of the beta-casein gene. Using functional assays, we show that BCE1 contains responsive elements for prolactin- and ECM-dependent regulation. BCE1 placed upstream of a truncated and inactive beta-casein promoter (the shortest extending from -89 to +42 bp with regard to the transcription start site) reconstitutes a promoter even more potent than the intact promoter, which contains BCE1 in its normal context more than 1.5 kb upstream. This small fusion promoter also reconstitutes the normal pattern of regulation, including a requirement for both prolactin and ECM and a synergistic action of prolactin and hydrocortisone. By replacing the milk promoter with a heterologous viral promoter, we show that BCE1 participates in the prolactin- and ECM-mediated regulation.
journal_name
Mol Biol Celljournal_title
Molecular biology of the cellauthors
Schmidhauser C,Casperson GF,Myers CA,Sanzo KT,Bolten S,Bissell MJdoi
10.1091/mbc.3.6.699keywords:
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1992-06-01 00:00:00pages
699-709issue
6eissn
1059-1524issn
1939-4586journal_volume
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