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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-1-30
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Glucocorticoids exert diverse physiological functions through transcriptional regulation of genes including granzyme A (GZMA). GZMA is one of the apoptotic effectors localized in cytotoxic T lymphocytes and is considered to mediate glucocorticoid-induced apoptosis of human leukemia 697 cells. In the present study, we identified a novel 5' variant transcript of GZMA in dexamethasone (DEX)-treated 697 cells. We designated this novel transcript as GZMAbeta. The transcription of GZMAbeta starts at 290 bp downstream of the first intronic glucocorticoid response element (GRE). Chromatin immunoprecipitation assay showed that glucocorticoid receptor (GR) binds to the intronic GRE in a DEX-dependent manner. Luciferase assay and RT-PCR also showed that DEX induces GZMAbeta transcription mediated by GR binding to the intronic GRE. Our results show that there exist at least two transcripts in human GZMA, whose expression is differentially regulated by glucocorticoid.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1434-5161
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
52
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
172-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17180578-5' Untranslated Regions, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Alternative Splicing, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Dexamethasone, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Genetic Variation, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Granzymes, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Introns, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Luciferases, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Receptors, Glucocorticoid, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Response Elements, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Transcription, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:17180578-Transcriptional Activation
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Glucocorticoid-induced alternative promoter usage for a novel 5' variant of granzyme A.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Genomic Drug Discovery Science, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, 46-29 Yoshida Shimoadachi-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't