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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-5-14
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is an integral membrane protein that is highly expressed on the surface of prostate epithelial cells. It is also expressed on the vascular endothelium of a number of tumor types. We have used an enhancer trap approach with randomly cleaved overlapping DNA fragments from an approximately 55-kb P1 cosmid insert encompassing the 5' half and upstream sequences of the PSMA gene (FOLH1) to isolate an enhancer that strongly activates the FOLH1 core promoter region. The enhancer (PSME) is located in the third intron about 12 kb downstream from the start site of transcription and is characterized by a 72-bp direct repeat within a 331-bp core region. The PSME activates transcription from its own and heterologous promoters in prostate cell lines; enhancement is greatest in the PSMA-expressing cell line LNCaP (>250-fold). The PSME shows essentially no activity in five nonprostate cell lines. PSME-enhanced expression is repressed in the presence of androgen, mimicking the repression of the endogenous FOLH1 gene. The data demonstrate that both cell-type specificity and androgen regulation are intrinsic properties of the enhancer. These properties make the PSME an excellent candidate for regulation of gene expression in gene therapy approaches to prostate cancer.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0888-7543
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2001 Academic Press.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
73
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
243-54
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Androgens, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Antigens, Surface, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Carboxypeptidases, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Enhancer Elements, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Glutamate Carboxypeptidase II, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Introns, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Organ Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Prostate, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Restriction Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Sequence Analysis, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Sequence Deletion, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:11350116-Tumor Cells, Cultured
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
A tissue-specific enhancer of the prostate-specific membrane antigen gene, FOLH1.
pubmed:affiliation
CSIRO Molecular Science, North Ryde, New South Wales, 2113, Australia
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't