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AP-1, ETS, and transcriptional silencers regulate retinoic acid-dependent induction of keratin 18 in embryonic cells.

Cancer Research Center, La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, California 92037.

ABSTRACT

The differentiation of both embryonal carcinoma (EC) and embryonic stem (ES) cells can be triggered in culture by exposure to retinoic acid and results in the transcriptional induction of both the endogenous mouse keratin 18 (mK18) intermediate filament gene and an experimentally introduced human keratin 18 (K18) gene as well as a variety of other markers characteristic of extraembryonic endoderm. The induction of K18 in EC cells is limited, in part, by low levels of ETS and AP-1 transcription factor activities which bind to sites within a complex enhancer element located within the first intron of K18. RNA levels of ETS-2, c-Jun, and JunB increase upon the differentiation of ES cells and correlate with increased expression of K18. Occupancy of the ETS site, detected by in vivo footprinting methods, correlates with K18 induction in ES cells. In somatic cells, the ETS and AP-1 elements mediate induction by a variety of oncogenes associated with the ras signal transduction pathway. In EC cells, in addition to the induction by these limiting transcription factors, relief from negative regulation is mediated by three silencer elements located within the first intron of the K18 gene. These silencer elements function in F9 EC cells but not their differentiated derivatives, and their activity is correlated with proteins in F9 EC nuclei which bind to the silencers and are reduced in the nuclei of differentiated F9 cells. The induction of K18, associated with the differentiation of EC cells to extraembryonic endoderm, is due to a combination of relief from negative regulation and activation by members of the ETS and AP-1 transcription factor families.

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