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Molecular and Cellular Biology, October 2005, p. 8717-8731, Vol. 25, No. 19
0270-7306/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.25.19.8717-8731.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

The POU Transcription Factor Oct-1 Represses Virus-Induced Interferon A Gene Expression

Thibault Mesplède,1 Marie-Laure Island,1 Nicolas Christeff,1 Fahrettin Petek,2 Janine Doly,2 and Sébastien Navarro1*

Laboratoire de Régulation de la Transcription et Maladies Génétiques, CNRS, UPR 2228,1 Laboratoire de Régulation de la Transcription des Gènes Eucaryotes, UPR 37, UFR Biomédicale des Saints-Pères, Université René Descartes, 45 Rue des Saints-Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France2

Received 21 January 2005/ Returned for modification 5 April 2005/ Accepted 11 July 2005

Alpha interferon (IFN-{alpha}) and IFN-ß are able to interfere with viral infection. They exert a vast array of biologic functions, including growth arrest, cell differentiation, and immune system regulation. This regulation extends from innate immunity to cellular and humoral adaptive immune responses. A strict control of expression is needed to prevent detrimental effects of unregulated IFN. Multiple IFN-A subtypes are coordinately induced in human and mouse cells infected by virus and exhibit differences in expression of their individual mRNAs. We demonstrated that the weakly expressed IFN-A11 gene is negatively regulated after viral infection, due to a distal negative regulatory element, binding homeoprotein pituitary homeobox 1 (Pitx1). Here we show that the POU protein Oct-1 binds in vitro and in vivo to the IFN-A11 promoter and represses IFN-A expression upon interferon regulatory factor overexpression. Furthermore, we show that Oct-1-deficient MEFs exhibit increased in vivo IFN-A gene expression and increased antiviral activity. Finally, the IFN-A expression pattern is modified in Oct-1-deficient MEFs. The broad representation of effective and potent octamer-like sequences within IFN-A promoters suggests an important role for Oct-1 in IFN-A regulation.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire de Régulation de la Transcription et Maladies Génétiques, CNRS, UPR 2228, UFR Biomédicale des Saints-Pères, Université René Descartes, 45 Rue des Saints-Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France. Phone: 33-1-42-86-22-74. Fax: 33-1-42-86-20-42. E-mail: sebastien.navarro{at}univ-paris5.fr.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, October 2005, p. 8717-8731, Vol. 25, No. 19
0022-538X/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.25.19.8717-8731.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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