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  • Title: Involvement of specific proteins (Sp1/Sp3) and nuclear factor Y in basal transcription of the distal promoter of the rat pyruvate carboxylase gene in beta-cells.
    Author: Sunyakumthorn P, Boonsaen T, Boonsaeng V, Wallace JC, Jitrapakdee S.
    Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun; 2005 Apr 01; 329(1):188-96. PubMed ID: 15721292.
    Abstract:
    Pyruvate carboxylase plays diverse roles in different biosynthetic pathways, including glucose-induced insulin secretion in pancreatic beta-cells. We have localized the control region of the P2 promoter by generating a series of 5'-nested deletion constructs, and both 25- and 9-bp internal deletion constructs, as well as by performing site-directed mutagenesis. Transient transfections of these constructs into INS-1 cells identified a CCAAT box and a GC box that are located at -65/-61 and -48/-41, respectively, as the important determinants. Disruption of the GC box resulted in a 4-fold reduction of the reporter activity, while disruption of the proximal CCAAT box (-65/-61) but not the distal CCAAT box (-95/-91) increased the reporter activity by 3-fold. Simultaneous disruptions of both the GC box and the CCAAT box reduced the reporter activity to a level that was close to that of the single GC box mutation. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSAs) and supershift EMSAs using nuclear extract from INS-1 cells demonstrated that Sp1 and Sp3 bind a GC box while the nuclear factor Y was shown to bind the proximal but not the distal CCAAT box.
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