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Mol Cell Biol. 1992 June; 12(6): 2739-2748

Negative autoregulation of the neu gene is mediated by a novel enhancer.

Department of Tumor Biology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030.

ABSTRACT

In an attempt to study potential feedback regulation of the neu oncogene, we have found that the neu oncogene product specifically represses its own promoter activity. Deletion analysis indicated a 140-bp region (nucleotides -312 to -173 relative to the ATG initiation codon) in the rat neu promoter responsible for neu autorepression. Gel shift assays and methylation interference analysis further demonstrated that a GGTGGGGGGG sequence (nucleotides -243 to -234 relative to the ATG initiation codon) in this 140-bp region interacts with specific protein complexes. The GGTGGGGGGG sequence (GTG element), which functions as an enhancer, is sufficient to cause neu-mediated repression in a heterologous promoter. Furthermore, it produces different gel shift patterns with nuclear extracts from neu-transformed cell lines and their parental lines, suggesting that a transcriptional factor(s) interacting with this enhancer element has been perturbed by the introduction of neu. Taken together, the data presented in this report show that (i) the neu oncogene product autorepresses its own promoter, (ii) the neu promoter contains a novel enhancer, and (iii) neu autorepression is mediated through this enhancer, likely by inhibition of the enhancer activity.

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