A new cAMP response element in the transcribed region of the human c-fos gene.

AUTOR(ES)

Härtig, E

RESUMO

In NIH 3T3 cells the c-fos gene is induced rapidly and transiently by cAMP. As shown by the analysis of 3T3 cells stably transfected with promoter mutants of the human c-fos gene this induction does not depend on the dyad symmetry element (position -320 to -300), but involves at least two other non-related sites: an element located around position -60 resembling the cAMP response element of the fibronectin and somatostatin genes (which has been described before), and an element located between positions +18 and +38. Destruction of one or the other element in the c-fos gene reduces cAMP inducibility. The cAMP response of c-fos promoter CAT gene constructs also depends on these elements in transient transfection assays. When cloned in front of the albumin TATA box, both elements independently mediate cAMP inducibility. These elements do not bind the same protein as shown in gel retardation analyses, suggesting that two different cAMP inducible factors mediate the activation of the c-fos gene by cAMP.

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