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Mol Cell Biol. 1992 May; 12(5): 2029-2036

Identification of a negative regulatory element that inhibits c-mos transcription in somatic cells.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.

ABSTRACT

We have used transient expression assays to identify a cis-acting region in the 5' flanking sequence of murine c-mos which, when deleted, allows expression from the c-mos promoter in NIH 3T3 cells. This negative regulatory sequence, located 400 to 500 nucleotides upstream of the c-mos ATG, also inhibited expression from a heterologous promoter. In addition to NIH 3T3 cells, the c-mos negative regulatory sequence was active in BALB/3T3 cells, PC12 rat pheochromocytoma cells, and A549 human lung carcinoma cells. Site-specific mutagenesis identified three possibly interacting regions that were involved in negative regulatory activity, located around -460, -425, and -405 with respect to the ATG. RNase protection analysis indicated that once the negative regulatory sequences were deleted, transcription in NIH 3T3 cells initiated from the same transcription initiation sites normally utilized in spermatocytes, approximately 280 nucleotides upstream of the ATG. Deletions beyond the spermatocyte promoter, however, allowed transcription initiation from progressively downstream c-mos sequences. Deletion or mutation of sequences surrounding the oocyte promoter at -53 also had little effect on expression of c-mos constructs in NIH 3T3 cells. Therefore, the major determinant of c-mos expression in NIH 3T3 cells was removal of the negative regulatory sequence rather than the utilization of a unique promoter. The c-mos negative regulatory sequences thus appear to play a significant role in tissue-specific c-mos expression by inhibiting transcription in somatic cells.

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