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Mol Cell Biol. 1991 December; 11(12): 6116-6127

Transcriptional regulation of the rat platelet factor 4 gene: interaction between an enhancer/silencer domain and the GATA site.

K Ravid, T Doi, D L Beeler, D J Kuter and R D Rosenberg

Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.

ABSTRACT

We used various segments of the 5' upstream region of the rat platelet factor 4 (PF4) gene coupled to the human growth hormone gene and heterologous promoters to identify domains which are critical for tissue-specific expression. Transient expression experiments with rat bone marrow cells and other cell lines revealed a complex interplay between a core promoter domain from -97 to the transcriptional start site and an enhancer/silencer domain from -448 to -112. The core promoter contains a GATA site at -31 to -28 whose mutation to TATA or AATA decreases tissue specificity and moderately affects expression in megakaryocytes as well as a positively acting subdomain from -97 to -83 whose removal decreases overall transcription without affecting tissue specificity. The enhancer/silencer domain possesses three positively acting subdomains from -380 to -362, -270 to -257, and -137 to -120 as well as a negatively acting subdomain at -184 to -151 which is able to reduce overall transcription but has no effect on tissue specificity. The subdomain from -380 to -362 is most critical in restricting gene expression driven either by the PF4 promoter or by a heterologous promoter to the megakaryocytic lineage. The subdomains from -270 to -257 and -137 to -120 function together with the subdomain from -380 to -362 to somewhat increase tissue specificity. Simultaneous mutation of the GATA site and deletion of either the whole enhancer/silencer domain or the subdomain from -380 to -362 or -137 to -120 reduce transcription in megakaryocytes by 10- to 30-fold. On the basis of the above-described results, we propose that the megakaryocyte-specific enhancer/silencer domain and the GATA site are responsible for high-level expression of the PF4 gene in a lineage-specific manner.

Mol Cell Biol. 1991 December; 11(12): 6116-6127




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