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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-9-12
pubmed:abstractText
Induction of expression of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) has been studied in primary cultures of chick embryo liver cells and in the LMH line of avian hepatoma cells. Cells were transiently transfected with selected constructs containing portions of the 5'-untranslated (promoter) region of the HO-1 gene linked to luciferase as reporter gene. LMH cells that had been stably transfected with selected wild type or mutant constructs were also studied. Metalloporphyrins, especially Fe protoporphyrin (heme) and Co protoporphyrin strongly induced luciferase expression in both types of transfected cells. Low concentrations of Zn mesoporphyrin, an inhibitor of HO activity, exerted a synergistic effect on heme-, but not Co protoporphyrin-dependent induction. The antioxidant and &bond;SH donor N-acetyl cysteine had little effect on the metalloporphyrin-dependent inductions of HO-1, in contrast to its marked inhibitory effect on the sodium arsenite-dependent induction of the HO-1 gene. Deletional analysis showed that the key element(s) required for the metalloporphyrin-dependent induction of HO-1 is located between -3.6 and -5.6 kb upstream of the transcription starting point. Data from electrophoretic mobility shift and site-directed mutagenesis experiments excluded a role for consensus AP-1 binding elements at -1576, -3647, or -4578 in the inductions produced by heme or Co protoporphyrin.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0003-9861
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2000 Academic Press.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
380
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
219-27
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Chick Embryo, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Enhancer Elements, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Genes, Reporter, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Heme, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing), pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Heme Oxygenase-1, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Luciferases, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Metalloporphyrins, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Protoporphyrins, pubmed-meshheading:10933875-Transfection
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Induction of the heme oxygenase-1 gene by metalloporphyrins.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't