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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-5-1
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
The histone H4t gene is actively transcribed in rat testis germinal cells and in several non-testis cell types including cells from liver. This histone H4 gene is expressed most actively in testis premeiotic pachytene spermatocytes, and its expression is down-regulated in postmeiotic early spermatids. The histone H4 gene promoter is functional as demonstrated by finding significant levels of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) mRNA in mammalian cells transiently transfected with a histone H4-promoted CAT expression vector compared to cells transfected with an expression vector lacking of the promoter. Examination of the proximal promoter of the histone H4 gene by electrophoretic mobility shift assays indicates that specific protein-DNA interactions occur when pachytene spermatocyte nuclear proteins are mixed with promoter fragments containing regions designated site I and site II, consensus sequence elements essential for regulating transcription of the histone H4 gene. These specific protein-DNA interactions are eliminated by competition with identical DNA fragments, but are not eliminated by competition with nonhomologous DNA fragments. Significant differences are found in mobility shift patterns upon comparison of nuclear proteins from germinal cell populations enriched in pachytene spermatocytes where the gene is actively expressed and early spermatids where the gene is not expressed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
5
pubmed:volume
266
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
6637-43
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Electrophoresis, Agar Gel, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Histones, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Liver, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Male, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-RNA, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Rats, Inbred Strains, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Restriction Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Testis, pubmed-meshheading:1706721-Transcription, Genetic
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Protein-DNA interactions within the rat histone H4t promoter.
pubmed:affiliation
Research Service, Overton Brooks Veterans Administration Medical Center, Shreveport, Louisiana 71101-4295.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.