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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-7-14
pubmed:abstractText
Combinatorial interactions between cis elements and trans-acting factors are required for regulation of cardiac gene expression during normal cardiac development and pathological cardiac hypertrophy. Sp factors bind GC boxes and are implicated in recruitment and assembly of the basal transcriptional complex. In this study, we show that the cardiac troponin T (cTnT) promoter contains a GC box that is necessary for basal and cAMP-mediated activity of cTnT promoter constructs transfected in embryonic cardiomyocytes. Cardiac nuclear proteins bind the cTnT GC box in a sequence-specific fashion and consist of Sp1, Sp2, and Sp3 protein factors. By chromatin immunoprecipitation, Sp1 binds the cTnT promoter "in vivo." Cotransfected Sp1 trans-activates the cTnT promoter in cardiomyocytes in culture. Sp3 represses Sp1-mediated transcriptional activation of the cTnT gene in embryonic cardiomyocytes. Sp3 repression of Sp1-mediated cTnT promoter activation is dose dependent, inferring a mechanism of competitive binding/inhibition. To evaluate the role of Sp factors in cardiac gene expression in vivo, we have established a clinically relevant animal model of pathological cardiac hypertrophy where the fetal cardiac program is activated. In this animal model, cardiac hypertrophy results from increased left-right shunting, volume loading of the left ventricle, and pressure loading of the right ventricle. Sp1 expression is increased in all four hypertrophied cardiac chambers, whereas Sp3 expression is diminished. This observation is consistent with the in vitro activating function of Sp1 and inhibitory effects of Sp3 on activity of cTnT promoter constructs. Sp factor levels are modulated during the hypertrophic cardiac program in vivo.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0363-6135
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
291
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
H600-11
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Cardiomegaly, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Cell Nucleus, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Chick Embryo, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Chromatin, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Down-Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Drosophila, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-E-Box Elements, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Female, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Heart, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Immunoprecipitation, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Sarcomeres, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Sheep, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Sp2 Transcription Factor, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Sp3 Transcription Factor, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Tissue Culture Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:16617124-Troponin T
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Sp3 inhibits Sp1-mediated activation of the cardiac troponin T promoter and is downregulated during pathological cardiac hypertrophy in vivo.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, Univ. of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. azakiet@surgery.ucsf.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural