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Mol. Cell. Biol., Sep 1997, 5127-5135, Vol 17, No. 9
M Britos-Bray and AD Friedman
The myeloperoxidase (MPO) gene is transcribed specifically in immature
myeloid cells and is regulated in part by a 414-bp proximal enhancer.
Mutation of a core binding factor (CBF)-binding site at -288 decreased
enhancer activity 30-fold in 32D cl3 myeloid cells cultured in granulocyte
colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). A novel functional analysis, linking the
CBF-binding site to an enhancer deletion series, located at -147 an
evolutionarily conserved c-Myb-binding site which was required for optimal
enhancer activity and synergy with CBF in 32D cells. These sites cooperated
in isolation and independent of a precise spacing. Deletional analysis
carried out in the absence of the c-Myb- binding site at -147 located at
-301 a second c-Myb-binding site which also synergized with CBF to activate
the enhancer. A GA-rich region at - 162 contributed to cooperation with CBF
when the adjacent c-Myb-binding site was intact. Mutation of both
c-Myb-binding sites in the context of the entire enhancer greatly impaired
activation by endogenous CBF in 32D cells. Similarly, activation by c-Myb
was impaired in constructs lacking the CBF-binding site. CBF and c-Myb were
required for induction of MPO proximal enhancer activity when 32D cells
differentiated in response to G-CSF. A fusion protein containing the Gal4
DNA-binding domain and the AML-1B activation domain, amino acids 216 to
480, activated transcription alone and cooperatively with c-Myb in
nonmyeloid CV-1 cells. Determining how CBF and c-Myb synergize in myeloid
cells might contribute to our understanding of leukemogenesis by the
AML1-ETO, AML1-MDS1, CBFbeta-SMMHC, and v-Myb oncoproteins.
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Core binding factor cannot synergistically activate the myeloperoxidase proximal enhancer in immature myeloid cells without c-Myb
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