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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, Maryland 21201
The mucin
gene Muc1 is expressed in glandular epithelial cells and is
involved in lubricative and protective functions. It is also
overexpressed in many carcinomas including breast and lung cancer
cells. To study the transcriptional regulation of Muc1, we
cloned a 2.4-kb fragment containing the promoter region of the hamster
Muc1 gene and analyzed it for its ability to mediate transcription. Transcriptional initiation was localized to 22 base
pairs downstream of the TATA box. We performed functional analysis of
the Muc1 promoter in hamster (HP-1 and Chinese hamster ovary) and human cells (MCF-7, A549, and BEAS-2B) using
deletion/reporter constructs. A positive regulatory region between
bases
555 and
252 and a putative negative regulatory element
(P-NRE) between nucleotides
1,652 and
1,614 were found to be active
in transfected cells. The P-NRE contains a yin yang 1 (YY1)
transcription factor binding site, and electrophoretic mobility shift
assays with HP-1 cell nuclear extract revealed the binding of YY1 to
this site. Our data suggest that YY1 may play an inhibitory role in the
transcription of the Muc1 gene.
promoter; expression; negative regulatory region; protein binding; yin yang 1
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