Abstract:
:Enhancers are DNA sequences that stimulate transcription from eukaryotic promoters. This stimulatory effect can be exerted over large distances and from a position either 5' or 3' of a promoter. Enhancers have been found in the genomes of many viruses, and in some cellular genes such as those encoding immunoglobulin heavy chain and kappa light chain. An important feature of both viral and cellular enhancers is the ability of each enhancer to stimulate transcription from many promoters other than the one with which it is found associated. However, the question of whether cellular enhancers stimulate their 'own' promoter more efficiently than other promoters has apparently not been investigated. We show here that the kappa light-chain enhancer stimulates a kappa promoter about 20-fold more than it stimulates either the simian virus 40 (SV40) early promoter or a metallothionein (MT) promoter, two promoters that are very sensitive to other enhancers. Similarly, the heavy-chain enhancer stimulates a heavy-chain promoter much more than it stimulates the SV40 and MT promoters. This synergism between immunoglobulin enhancers and promoters might be due to the action of a protein that binds specifically to each of the regulatory elements.
journal_name
Naturejournal_title
Natureauthors
Garcia JV,Bich-Thuy LT,Stafford J,Queen Cdoi
10.1038/322383a0subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1986-07-24 00:00:00pages
383-5issue
6077eissn
0028-0836issn
1476-4687journal_volume
322pub_type
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