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  • Title: Identification of Ets-1 as an important transcriptional activator of CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase alpha in COS-7 cells and co-activation with transcriptional enhancer factor-4.
    Author: Sugimoto H, Sugimoto S, Tatei K, Obinata H, Bakovic M, Izumi T, Vance DE.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 2003 May 30; 278(22):19716-22. PubMed ID: 12642588.
    Abstract:
    Phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis via the CDP-choline pathway is primarily regulated by CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase (CT). Transcriptional enhancer factor-4 (TEF-4) enhances the transcription of CTalpha in COS-7 cells by interactions with the basal transcription machinery (Sugimoto, H., Bakovic, M., Yamashita, S., and Vance, D.E. (2001) J. Biol. Chem. 276,12338-12344). To identify the most important transcription factor involved in basal CTalpha transcription, we made CTalpha promoter-deletion and -mutated constructs linked to a luciferase reporter and transfected them into COS-7 cells. The results indicate that an important site regulating basal CTalpha transcription is -53/-47 (GACTTCC), which is a putative consensus-binding site of Ets transcription factors (GGAA) in the opposite orientation. Gel shift analyses indicated the existence of a binding protein for -53/-47 (GACTTCC) in nuclear extracts of COS-7 cells. When anti-Ets-1 antibody was incubated with the probe in gel shift analyses, the intensity of the binding protein was decreased. The binding of endogenous Ets-1 to the promoter probe was increased when TEF-4 was expressed; however, the amount of Ets-1 detected by immunoblotting was unchanged. When cells were transfected with Ets-1 cDNA, the luciferase activity of CTalpha promoter constructs was greatly enhanced. Co-transfection experiments with Ets-1 and TEF-4 showed enhanced expression of reporter constructs as well as CTalpha mRNA. These results suggest that Ets-1 is an important transcriptional activator of the CTalpha gene and that Ets-1 activity is enhanced by TEF-4.
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