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Mol Cell Biol. 1992 June; 12(6): 2525-2533

Negative regulation of catalase gene expression in hepatoma cells.

K Sato, K Ito, H Kohara, Y Yamaguchi, K Adachi and H Endo

Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan.

ABSTRACT

For an understanding of the molecular basis of the marked decrease in catalase activity of various tumor cells, expression of the catalase gene was studied in rat and human hepatoma cell lines and in rat liver, which was used as a control with high activity. RNA blot hybridization profiles and run-on assays indicated that the decrease in catalase activity was due to depression of catalase gene transcription. Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) assays for the fragments with various lengths of the 5'-flanking region (up to -4.5 kb from the ATG codon) of the catalase gene revealed the presence of several cis-acting elements involved in the negative regulation of transcription. The most-upstream element with the strongest activity (-3504 to -3364 bp), when linked to the catalase promoter region (-126 bp) of the CAT construct and subjected to an in vitro transcription assay, did not yield transcripts in experiments with the hepatoma nuclear extract, whereas the unlinked template did yield transcripts. A gel shift competition assay using hepatoma nuclear extract showed the core sequence of the silencer element to be 5'-TGGGGGGAG-3'. A homology search found that the same core sequence was also present in 5'-flanking regions of the albumin gene and of some other liver enzyme genes, the expression of which has been reported to be down regulated in some hepatoma cells. Southwestern (DNA-protein) analysis demonstrated that an approximately 35-kDa nuclear protein bound to the silencer element was present in hepatoma cells but not in rat liver cells.

Mol Cell Biol. 1992 June; 12(6): 2525-2533




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