Identification of two novel cis-elements in the promoter of the prostate-specific antigen gene that are required to enhance androgen receptor-mediated transactivation.
AUTOR(ES)
Zhang, J
RESUMO
A monomeric androgen responsive element (ARE) is not sufficient to mediate significant androgen induction of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) gene. Co-transfection experiments using a series of 5'deletion fragments of the proximal promoter region of the PSA gene linked to bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) as a reporter have identified two motif sequences which are indispensable for androgen receptor (AR)-mediated transactivation of the PSA promoter and have been designated as motifs A and B respectively. Of note, motif B alone has very little independent enhancer activity regardless of the presence or absence of androgen, whereas multi-copies of motif A exert androgenic inducibility for a heterologous promoter independent of the presence of ARE. Nucleotide substitutions in either motif significantly decrease the androgen inducibility and the nuclear protein binding ability. Furthermore, gel band shift experiments consistently demonstrate that nuclear proteins can bind these motifs, and they are non-receptor factors. Our data indicate that these two DNA motifs are novel cis -regulatory elements and exhibit different mechanisms in cooperation with ARE for AR-mediated transactivation.
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