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Mol Cell Biol. 1993 September; 13(9): 5245-5254

Inducible transcriptional activation of the human immunodeficiency virus long terminal repeat by protein kinase inhibitors.

Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461.

ABSTRACT

The protein kinase inhibitor 2-aminopurine (2-AP) greatly stimulated expression in human promonocytes-macrophages of plasmid constructs carrying various reporter genes (chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, lacZ, firefly luciferase [luc], and Salmonella typhimurium histidinol dehydrogenase [his]) driven by the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) long terminal repeat. Adenine, adenosine, and caffeine were also effective inducers, but other purine or pyrimidine derivatives were ineffective. Experiments with mutant derivatives of the HIV-1 long terminal repeat revealed no specific eukaryotic promoter elements necessary for 2-AP induction but indicated the need for some minimum combination of such elements. Induction of HIV-1-directed gene expression appeared not to require action of the transcription factor NF-kappa B. The mechanism of induction was investigated by using the luc and his genes linked to the HIV-1 long terminal repeat. 2-AP induced marked, steady rises in mRNA accumulation from both transfected and chromosomally integrated HIV-1 constructs but no increases from an endogenous gene encoding gamma-actin or glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase. Thus, induction is selective and not an artifact induced by transfecting DNA into cells. In run-on transcription experiments, the rates of transcription initiation of both transfected and integrated copies of the his gene increased about sixfold in cells treated with 2-AP. Thus, while increased initiation accounted for a portion of 2-AP induction, it could not cause the far greater increase in steady-state mRNA levels. 2-AP induction did not change mRNA decay rates and differed from the phorbol ester (phorbol myristate acetate)-induced activation of the protein kinase C-NF-kappa B pathway in its time course and in its requirement for new protein synthesis. Gel retardation assays showed that unlike phorbol myristate acetate induction, 2-AP induction is enhancer independent. Whereas many previous studies have implicated the activation of various protein kinases in gene induction, we here describe a mechanism of gene activation that appears to involve protein kinase inhibition as a component of the induction response.

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