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  • Title: HTLV-1 tax activation of the GM-CSF and G-CSF promoters requires the interaction of NF-kB with other transcription factor families.
    Author: Himes SR, Coles LS, Katsikeros R, Lang RK, Shannon MF.
    Journal: Oncogene; 1993 Dec; 8(12):3189-97. PubMed ID: 7504230.
    Abstract:
    The trans-activator protein, tax, from the human T leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) trans-activates both viral and cellular genes. It has previously been shown that granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is constitutively expressed in HTLV-1 infected cells and in cells artificially expressing tax. We show here that the GM-CSF promoter is tax responsive in fibroblasts and T cells, whereas the granulocyte (G)-CSF promoter is tax responsive only in fibroblasts. The tax protein can activate cellular genes through a least two families of transcription factors; the NF-kB/rel and CREB/ATF families. We have used mutant tax proteins to show that the activation of NF-kB proteins is essential for tax trans-activation of both the GM-CSF and G-CSF promoters. The ability of tax to activate CREB/ATF proteins is also essential for GM-CSF transactivation. We have identified a 44 bp region of the GM-CSF promoter that contains tax responsive elements. This region contains a classical NF-kB site, a CK-1 element that can bind the NF-kB p65 protein, as well as a putative ATF binding site. The tax response of the G-CSF promoter requires not only the conserved CK-1 sequence but also an adjacent NF-IL6 binding site that may explain the cell restricted function of the G-CSF promoter.
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