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Mol Cell Biol. 1993 June; 13(6): 3686-3697

A negative regulatory element in the bcl-2 5'-untranslated region inhibits expression from an upstream promoter.

R L Young and S J Korsmeyer

Department of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.

ABSTRACT

bcl-2 mRNA is present at high levels in pre-B-cell lines but is down-regulated in most mature B-cell lines. To investigate the mechanisms responsible for its developmental control, we studied the regulation of bcl-2 expression in human B-lineage cell lines. Using nuclear run-on assays, we found that bcl-2 transcription decreases in parallel with levels of steady-state mRNA during B-cell development. To define cis-acting elements that regulate bcl-2 transcription, we analyzed the expression of transiently transfected promoter-reporter constructs. We identified a novel negative regulatory element (NRE) in the bcl-2 5'-untranslated region that decreased expression from the bcl-2 P1 promoter or heterologous promoters in a position-dependent fashion. The NRE functions in either orientation but contains distinct orientation-dependent subfragments. Additional analyses demonstrated that multiple, functionally redundant sequence elements mediate NRE activity. Though the bcl-2 NRE is active in pre-B- and mature B-cell lines, chromatin structure of the endogenous NRE differs in these cells, suggesting that its activity or effect may vary during B-cell development. Our results indicate that negative control of transcription initiated at the P1 promoter is an important determinant of the differential expression of bcl-2.

Mol Cell Biol. 1993 June; 13(6): 3686-3697




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