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Nucleic Acids Research, 2002, Vol. 30, No. 14 3107-3117
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Bone morphogenetic protein-4-induced activation of Xretpos is mediated by Smads and Olf-1/EBF associated zinc finger (OAZ)

Sangwoo Shim, Narina Bae and Jin-Kwan Han*

Laboratory of Developmental Biology, Department of Life Science and Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31 Hyoja-Dong, Pohang, Kyungbuk, 790-784, South Korea

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +82 54 279 2126; Fax: +82 54 279 2199; Email: jkh{at}postech.ac.kr

We have previously isolated Xretpos, a novel family of long terminal repeat (LTR)-retrotransposons in Xenopus laevis, whose transcript is restricted to ventro-posterior-specific regions and induced by bone morphogenetic protein-4 (BMP-4) signaling. To explore the molecular mechanism of the transcriptional regulation, we identified and characterized Xretpos promoter regions consisting of LTRs and a 5'-untranslated region. We demonstrated that this promoter region contains all the necessary regulatory elements for the spatial and temporal expression of Xretpos. Sequence analysis of the Xretpos promoter revealed multiple Smad-binding elements and Olf-1/EBF-associated zinc finger (OAZ) binding sites similar to BMP-4 response element, which were identified and proved to be required for BMP-4 induction in the Xvent2 promoter. We further demonstrated that Smads and OAZ proteins bind to their response elements in the promoter and these bindings are essential for the BMP-4-induced activation of the Xretpos promoter. Furthermore, we showed that the endogenous expression of Xretpos protein indeed occurred and was temporally regulated and BMP-4-inducible during the early Xenopus development. Finally, overexpression and partial loss-of-function study revealed that Xretpos has a posterio-ventralizing activity. Together, our results place Xretpos downstream of BMP-4 and provide evidence for the conserved mechanism of transcriptional regulation of the BMP-4 target genes.


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