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Mol Cell Biol. 1994 June; 14(6): 4258-4268

TATA-dependent enhancer stimulation of promoter activity in mice is developmentally acquired.

S Majumder and M L DePamphilis

Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Roche Research Center, Nutley, New Jersey 07110.

ABSTRACT

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) thymidine kinase (tk) promoter activity depends on four transcription factor binding sites, one of which is a TATA box sequence, and the presence of either a cis-acting enhancer sequence or a transactivator protein. Studies presented here show that this TATA box was required for promoter activity only after cells began to differentiate and then only when promoter activity was stimulated by either an enhancer or a transactivator. When the HSV tk promoter was utilized by mouse embryos from the one-cell to eight-cell stage of development or by undifferentiated mouse embryonic stem cells, disruption of the HSV tk TATA box by site-specific mutations did not reduce promoter activity. This was true even when HSV tk promoter activity was stimulated strongly by either the embryo-responsive polyomavirus F101 enhancer or its natural transactivator, the HSV ICP4 gene product. However, stimulated expression was dependent on a distal Sp1 DNA binding site. Similarly, disruption of the TATA box did not reduce tk promoter activity in primary mouse embryonic fibroblasts or in immortalized 3T3 mouse fibroblasts; in fact, promoter activity was increased up to 2.6-fold. However, in these differentiated cells, stimulation of the HSV tk promoter by either the F101 enhancer or ICP4 protein required the TATA box. HSV tk promoter activity also was dependent on its TATA box in the mouse oocyte, a terminally differentiated cell with an endogenous transactivating activity. These results reveal that the need for a TATA box is developmentally acquired and depends on at least two parameters: the differentiated state of the cell and stimulation of the promoter by either an enhancer or a transactivator.

Mol Cell Biol. 1994 June; 14(6): 4258-4268




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