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Mol Cell Biol. 1990 December; 10(12): 6181-6191

A 58-base-pair region of the human C3 gene confers synergistic inducibility by interleukin-1 and interleukin-6.

Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030.

ABSTRACT

We have cloned the promoter for the human third component of complement (C3) gene and have identified sequences involved in its regulation during the acute-phase response. A construct linking 199 bp of the C3 promoter to the firefly luciferase gene was found to be very responsive to interleukin-1 (IL-1) and modestly responsive to interleukin-6 (IL-6) by transfection analysis in the human hepatoma line Hep3B2. Simultaneous treatment with the two cytokines showed a strong synergy between the actions of the two molecules. A 58-bp fragment (-127 to -70 bp) was shown by 5' and 3' deletional mutagenesis to contain cis-acting elements that mediated both the IL-1 response and the IL-1-plus-IL-6 synergistic response of this promoter. When coupled to a heterologous promoter, this fragment enabled the synergistic induction by IL-1 plus IL-6. Sequences homologous to the palindrome ACATTGCACAATCT, which mediates the induction of the IL-6 gene by IL-1 (S. Akira, H. Isshiki, T. Sugita, O. Tanabe, S. Kinoshita, Y. Nishio, T. Nakajima, T. Hirano, and T. Kishimoto, EMBO J. 9:1897-1906, 1990), and the core sequence of the IL-6-responsive element of the rat alpha 2-macroglobulin gene (CTGGGA; M. Hattori, L. J. Abraham, W. Northemann, and G. H. Fey, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87:2364-2368, 1990) are contained within this fragment in immediate juxtaposition and partially overlapping. Site-directed mutagenesis within this homology region drastically reduced the inducibility of the C3 promoter by either cytokine. DNase I footprinting analysis defined a binding site for the transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein (C/EBP), which included the IL-1-responsive element-like sequence. No differences were seen between the footprints generated by using extracts from unstimulated and IL-1-stimulated Hep3B2 cells. However, gel retardation analyses revealed two IL-1-specific bands. The data suggest that the induction by IL-1 is mediated by a factor belonging to the family of C/EBP-related proteins.

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