Specificity protein 1 transcription factor regulates human ARTS promoter activity through multiple binding sites

PloS One
Feifan XuYinong Duan

Abstract

Apoptosis-related protein in the TGF-β signaling pathway (ARTS) is an unusual mitochondrial Septin-like protein which functions as a tumor suppressor. There are various splice variants derived from the human Septin4 gene, one of which is ARTS, also known as Septin4_i2. Unlike other Septin4 members, ARTS can induce apoptosis in many cells, however, the underlying molecular mechanism for the transcriptional regulation of ARTS has yet to be deciphered. In this study, we attempted to analyze the promoter region of ARTS in cultured HEK-293T and LX-2 cells with the purpose of elucidating the underlying transcriptional mechanisms driving ARTS expression. We effectively demonstrated that the -824 to -5 bp region of the ARTS promoter was essential for ARTS transcription and identified four putative specificity protein 1 (Sp1) binding sites within this core promoter region. ChIP analysis showed that Sp1 protein could bind to two of these sites (-735/-718 and -173/-157) and mutation of each Sp1 binding site led to a significant decrease in ARTS promoter activity. In conclusion, all the results indicated that the Sp1 transcription factor could contribute to ARTS gene transcription. The underlying molecular events of the specific promoter o...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
GTPase
PCR
transfection
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electrophoresis
immunoprecipitation assay
ChIP

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