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Mol Cell Biol. 1989 March; 9(3): 1376-1380

Fine mapping of a mouse metallothionein gene metal response element.

V C Culotta and D H Hamer

Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

ABSTRACT

Metal-regulated transcription of metallothionein (MT) genes in higher eucaryotes involves multiple copies of a highly conserved 17-base-pair metal-regulatory element (MRE). We have assayed by transient transfection the ability of mouse MT-I element d (MREd) to confer metal responsivity to constructs containing the mouse MT-I TATA box and the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase indicator gene. A single copy of MREd works bidirectionally to afford a three- to fourfold induction, and dual copies act cooperatively to yield a 10- to 20-fold response. Element d responds to the same spectrum of heavy metals as doses the complete MT gene promoter. The sequences involved in induction by metals were delineated by analyzing point mutations in MREd. While nucleotides of the highly conserved core sequence TGCPuCXC are critical, substitutions in the less conserved regions affect the induction response only marginally. These sequences include residues of a potential Sp1-binding site, suggesting that if Sp1 binds to MREd, it has little if any role in induction by metals.

Mol Cell Biol. 1989 March; 9(3): 1376-1380




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