Nucleic Acids Research, 1994, Vol. 22, No. 9 1741-1749
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Aryl hydrocarbon-induced interactions at multiple DNA elements of diverse sequence—a multicomponent mechanism for activation of cytochrome P4501A1 (CYP1A1) gene transcription
Molecular Biology Laboratory, Maharishi International University Fairfield, IA 52557-1078, USA
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Received August 31, 1993. Revised December 31, 1993. Accepted December 31, 1993.
In vivo footprinting experiments, augmented with gel shift and transfection analyses suggest that activation of the CYP1A1 gene by aryl hydrocarbons may be a multicomponent process. During the first 30 minutes of exposure to aryl hydrocarbon carcinogens and environmental contaminants, in vivo footprints appear at nine distinct sites within a 281 bp region centered 950 bp upstream of the CYP1A1 transcription start site. Six of these sites are unrelated in sequence to the three xenobiotic response elements (XREs) within this region, at which the aryl hydrocarbon (AH) receptor is known to bind. These six display a variety of footprint patterns, are diverse in sequence and range in G-C content from 60 to 75%. This diversity suggests that multiple nuclear factors may be responsible for these six in vivo footprints. These observations are consistent with competition gel shift experiments showing that the nuclear factors binding at two of these sites are different from each other, as well as from the AH receptor. Gel shifts also indicate that the sequence-specific factors binding at these sites are expressed constitutively. This is consistent with a model in which in vivo footprints are induced at these six sites, not through direct activation or de novo synthesis of DNA-binding factors, but through a two phase mechanism in which binding of the nuclear AH receptor complex to XREs facilitates the binding of constitutive factors at these sites. This facilitation could be mediated either through specific protein–protein interactions or through alterations in chromatin structure that make these sites accessible to constitutive nuclear factors. A function for the sequences at which aryl hydrocarbons induce in vivo footprints is suggested by transfection experiments showing that one of these sequences cooperates with a weak XRE to confer on a reporter gene responsiveness to aryl hydrocarbons.
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