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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
36
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-10-15
pubmed:abstractText
Type XI collagen, a heterotrimer specific to cartilage matrix, plays an important role in cartilage morphogenesis. We analyzed various alpha2(XI) collagen promoter-lacZ reporter gene constructs in transgenic mice to understand tissue-specific transcriptional regulation. The -530 promoter sequence was sufficient to direct reporter gene expression specifically to cartilage. Further deletion to -500 abolished reporter gene expression in cartilage but activated the expression specific to neural tissues such as brain and neural tube. An additional 47-base pair deletion resulted in random tissue expression patterns. A 24-base pair sequence from -530 to -507 of the alpha2(XI) promoter was able to switch the activity of the heterologous neurofilament light gene promoter from neural tissues to cartilage. These results suggest that the alpha2(XI) collagen gene is regulated by at least three modular elements: a basal promoter sequence distal to -453, a neural tissue-specific element (-454 to -500), and a cartilage-specific element (-501 to -530), which inhibits expression in neural tissues and induces expression in cartilage.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
4
pubmed:volume
273
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
22861-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Modular arrangement of cartilage- and neural tissue-specific cis-elements in the mouse alpha2(XI) collagen promoter.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Japan. ntsumaki@ort.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't