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  • Title: Thyroid hormone regulates expression of a transfected human alpha-myosin heavy-chain fusion gene in fetal rat heart cells.
    Author: Tsika RW, Bahl JJ, Leinwand LA, Morkin E.
    Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A; 1990 Jan; 87(1):379-83. PubMed ID: 2296592.
    Abstract:
    The rat alpha-myosin heavy-chain (alpha-MHC) gene is regulated by 3,5,3'-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3) in ventricular myocardium and is constitutively expressed in atrial tissue. Less is known about regulation of the human gene, but conservation of sequences in the 5'-flanking region between the rat and human alpha-MHC genes suggests that the human gene may be regulated similarly. Accordingly, T3-responsiveness and tissue-specific expression of human and rat alpha-MHC/chloramphenicol acetyltransferase fusion constructs have been compared in rat fetal heart cells, L6E9 myoblasts and myotubes, 3T3 fibroblasts, and HeLa cells. Transient transfection assays revealed a complex series of cis-regulatory elements in the 5'-flanking sequences in the human genes, including a basal promoter element with canonical TATAA and CAAT sequences, two positive regulatory element(s), and two negative regulatory elements, which markedly diminished both constitutive and T3-inducible activity. Interestingly, the human gene seemed to contain a proximal thyroid-hormone response element(s) not found in the rat gene. In L6E9 myoblasts and myotubes, the human constructs were constitutively expressed but not T3-regulated; none of the constructs were active in 3T3 or HeLa cells. We propose that interactions among the thyroid hormone responsive elements and other cis-acting elements in the human alpha-MHC 5'-flanking sequences may be sufficient to explain the characteristic features of expression of this gene in cardiac tissues.
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