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Mol. Cell. Biol., 12 1997, 7186-7194, Vol 17, No. 12
Copyright © 1997, American Society for Microbiology

POU domain transcription factor brain 4 confers pancreatic alpha-cell- specific expression of the proglucagon gene through interaction with a novel proximal promoter G1 element

MA Hussain, J Lee, CP Miller and JF Habener
Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA.

The proglucagon gene is expressed in a highly restricted tissue- specific manner in the alpha cells of the pancreatic islet, the hypothalamus, and the small and large intestines. Proglucagon is processed to glucagon and glucagon-like peptides GLP-1 and -2. Glucagon is expressed in alpha cells and regulates glucose homeostasis. GLP-1 is implicated in the control of insulin secretion, food intake, and satiety signaling, and GLP-2 is implicated in regulating small-bowel growth. Cell-specific expression of the proglucagon gene is mediated by proteins that interact with the proximal G1 promoter element which contains several AT-rich domains with binding sites for homeodomain transcription factors. In an attempt to identify major homeodomain proteins involved in pancreatic alpha-cell-specific proglucagon expression, we found that the POU domain transcription factor brain 4 is abundantly expressed in proglucagon-producing islet cell lines and rat pancreatic islets. In the latter, brain 4 and glucagon immunoreactivity colocalize in the outer mantle of islets. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays with specific antisera identify brain 4 as a major constituent of nuclear proteins of glucagon- producing cells that bind to the G1 element of the proglucagon gene proximal promoter. Transcriptional transactivation experiments reveal that brain 4 is a major regulator of proglucagon gene expression by its interaction with the G1 element. The finding that a neuronal transcription factor is involved in glucagon gene transcription may explain the presence of proglucagon in certain areas of the brain as well as in pancreatic alpha cells. Further, this finding supports the idea that the neuronal properties of endodermis-derived endocrine pancreatic cells may find their basis in regulation of gene expression by neuronal transcription factors.


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