Structural and functional characterization of the human alpha3 nicotinic subunit gene promoter.

Abstract:

:We describe the structural and functional features of the human alpha3 nicotinic receptor subunit promoter. A 0.35-kb region immediately upstream of the start codon was identified that when transfected in human neuroblastoma cells was able to drive the expression of the luciferase reporter gene with a strength comparable to that of the well-characterized simian virus 40 promoter/enhancer. This region displayed the features of a multistart-site, GC-rich, TATA-less, and CAAT-less promoter, containing many overlapping Sp1 and AP-2 putative binding sites. Further dissections of the 0.35-kb fragment revealed that its 3' region, specifying the 5' UT of the mRNA, plays a relevant positive effect in determining the strength of the promoter. This region contains putative cis-acting elements for AP-2, nuclear factor-kappaB, and the recently described multiple-start site element downstream-1. By mutation analysis, we showed that these sites are functional and when combined increase the promoter activity by 4-fold. The 0.35-kb promoter was found to be under the negative control of upstream sequences that include a modern Alu repeat. The alpha3 Alu repeat works as a composite region, containing both positive and negative elements that control the activity of the downstream promoter. Finally, we investigated the tissue-specific activity of the human alpha3 gene 5' regulatory sequences, showing that they are able to drive the expression of the reporter gene preferentially in neuronal cells.

journal_name

Mol Pharmacol

journal_title

Molecular pharmacology

authors

Fornasari D,Battaglioli E,Flora A,Terzano S,Clementi F

doi

10.1124/mol.51.2.250

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-02-01 00:00:00

pages

250-61

issue

2

eissn

0026-895X

issn

1521-0111

journal_volume

51

pub_type

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