Repression of the interleukin 6 gene promoter by p53 and the retinoblastoma susceptibility gene product

Journal Article · Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.88.17.7605· OSTI ID:5604146

Santhanam, U; Ray, A; Sehgal, P B ^[1]

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1. Rockefeller Univ., New York, NY (United States)

The aberrant overexpression of interleukin 6 (IL-6) is implicated as an autocrine mechanism in the enhanced proliferation of the neoplastic cell elements in various B- and T-cell malignancies and in some carcinomas and sarcomas; many of these neoplasms have been shown to be associated with a mutated p53 gene. The possibility that wild-type (wt) p53, a nuclear tumor-suppressor protein, but not its transforming mutants might serve to repress IL-6 gene expression was investigated in HeLa cells. The authors transiently cotransfected these cells with constitutive cytomegalovirus (CMV) enhancer/promoter expression plasmids overproducing wt or mutant human or murine p53 and with appropriate chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) reporter plasmids containing the promoter elements of human IL-6, c-fos, or {beta}-actin genes or of porcine major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I gene in pN-38 to evaluate the effect of the various p53 species on these promoters. These observations identify transcriptional repression as a property of p53 and suggest that p53 and RB may be involved as transcriptional repressors in modulating IL-6 gene expression during cellular differentiation and oncogenesis.

• OSTI ID: 5604146
• Journal Information: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; (United States), Vol. 88:17; ISSN 0027-8424
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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