Abstract:
:Cathepsin E (CE) is an intracellular aspartic proteinase that is exclusively expressed in cells of the gastrointestinal tracts, lymphoid tissues, urinary organs and red blood cells. However, the molecular mechanism by which CE is predominantly expressed in these cells remains unknown. Here, we report the identification of several transcription start sites of the CE gene and their regulatory factors in gastric adenosarcoma cells. We first identified several unique transcription start sites in mouse CE genes by an oligo cap method. Their analysis also revealed the existence of a non-coding region ∼24-kb upstream of exon 1 in the CE gene and also the existence of two transcripts for CE. Luciferase analyses in upstream of exon 1 revealed that this site contained putative binding regions for the transcription factors Sp1, AP-1 and cEts-1 essential for the expression of CE gene. Moreover, electrophoretic mobility shift assays revealed that the protein-oligonucleotides complex of the Sp1 site were supershifted by an anti-Sp1 antibody. The chromatin immunoprecipitation assay showed that Sp1 bound to the CE promoter region. In addition, overexpression of the Sp1 protein increased the expression of the CE protein. Altogether, these results suggest that Sp1 binding plays a particularly important role in the regulation of CE gene expression.
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J Biochemjournal_title
Journal of biochemistryauthors
Okamoto K,Okamoto Y,Kawakubo T,Iwata J,Yasuda Y,Tsukuba T,Yamamoto Kdoi
10.1093/jb/mvr135subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-03-01 00:00:00pages
263-72issue
3eissn
0021-924Xissn
1756-2651pii
mvr135journal_volume
151pub_type
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