Dissection of the erythroid-specific transcriptional promoter used by the gene encoding aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD)
- Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (United States)
The gene encoding delta-aminolevulinate dehydratase (ALAD), the second enzyme of the heme biosynthetic pathway, exists as a single gene in most mammalian genomes and we have sequenced over 12 kb from overlapping lambda clones containing the murine ALAD gene. The gene has a dual promoter driving expression of two different first exons; exon1A is expressed in all tissues and exon1B only in erythroid cells, where heme production is induced to exceptionally high levels for hemoglobin synthesis. Erythroid-specific expression of the ALAD gene is presumably accomplished by using the exon1B promoter which we hypothesize is responsive to erythroid-specific transcriptional activators. In order to test this, we have used gel mobility shift assays and DNase footprint analyses to dissect and identify the critical upstream regulatory elements. Nuclear extracts, prepared from murine erythroleukemia cells (MELC), human chronic myelogenous leukemia cell line (K562) and human fibroblast cell line (HeLa), were used as sources of proteins to analyze DNA binding sites in the ALAD erythroid-specific promoter from -307 to +1. In this region, there are three potential GATA1 sites, two CACCC boxes, a CCAAT box and a GGTGG box. NF-E2 sites were explored by using in vitro translation products of cloned p18 and p45, the two heterologous components of NF-E2, and successfully gel-shifted a 29 bp double-stranded oligo found at 2.6 kb in front of the ALAD gene. Thus, the ALAD gene utilizes both a housekeeping and a tissue-specific promoter.
- OSTI ID:
- 133816
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941009-; ISSN 0002-9297; TRN: 95:005313-0549
- Journal Information:
- American Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 55, Issue Suppl.3; Conference: 44. annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Montreal (Canada), 18-22 Oct 1994; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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