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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
42
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-11-17
pubmed:abstractText
Our laboratory has cloned the cDNA (Sutter, T. R., Tang, Y. M., Hayes, C. L., Wo, Y.-Y. P., Jabs, E. W., Li, X., Yin, H., Cody, C. W. , and Greenlee, W. F. (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 13092-13099) and gene (Tang, Y. M., Wo, Y.-Y. P., Jabs, E. W., Stewart, J. C., Sutter, T. R., and Greenlee, W. F. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 28324-28330) for human CYP1B1, a new member of the cytochrome P450 superfamily. Here, we report on the mapping and function of the CYP1B1 promoter. The CYP1B1 promoter is fully functional, when it is uncoupled from upstream enhancer elements. Deletion analysis and site-directed mutagenesis identified four regulatory elements required for maximum promoter activity: two antisense Sp1 sites (-84 to -89 and -68 to -73), a TATA-like box (-34 to -29), and an initiator motif (-5 to +3). The initiator and the TATA-like elements are both required for basal promoter activity, with enhanced activity mediated by the two antisense Sp1 elements. The CYP1B1 initiator was demonstrated by in vitro transcription analysis to be a positioning element that maintained fidelity of transcription from a single site. Specific binding to a CYP1B1 initiator probe by human nuclear extract proteins was competed either by the highly homologous murine terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase initiator or, to a lesser extent, by the adenovirus major late initiator. Taken together, these results indicate that the structure and function of the CYP1B1 promoter confers constitutive expression of the gene and assures fidelity of transcription initiation from a single site. The CYP1B1 promoter is distinct from the promoters of the closely related cytochrome P450s CYP1A1 and CYP1A2 and is structurally and functionally similar to the promoters of constitutively expressed genes and at least two viruses.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
17
pubmed:volume
272
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
26702-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Functional analysis of the promoter for the human CYP1B1 gene.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't