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. 1997 Aug;17(8):4238–4248. doi: 10.1128/mcb.17.8.4238

C/EBP factor suppression of inhibition of type II secreted phospholipase A2 promoter in HepG2 cells: possible role of single-strand binding proteins.

Q Fan 1, M Paradon 1, C Salvat 1, G Bereziat 1, J L Olivier 1
PMCID: PMC232277  PMID: 9234681

Abstract

We previously reported that the type II secreted phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) promoter from positions (-326 to +20) ([-326;+20] promoter) is negatively regulated by two adjacent regulatory elements, C (-210 to -176) and D (-247 to -210). This study examines in greater detail the way in which this negative regulation operates. Successive 5' deletions of the [-326;+20] type II sPLA2 promoter indicated that the region upstream of position -195 inhibits the transcription activity sixfold in HepG2 cells but not in HeLa cells. Although the whole [-326;-176] region decreased the activity of a heterologous thymidine kinase promoter, this effect was orientation and position sensitive. C/EBP beta, C/EBP alpha, and C/EBP delta, which bind to element C, prevented the inhibition of promoter activity. Electrophoretic mobility shift experiments identified the binding of NF1-like proteins to the [-225;-218] site, which overlaps an insulin response-like sequence, 5'-TGTTTTG-3'. This sequence bound a factor which also recognized the promoters of the apolipoproteins C-III and A-II. Substitutions preventing the binding of this factor or the NF1-like proteins did not increase the transcription activity, but substitution in the [-217;-204] sequence blocked the transcription inhibition. This sequence did not bind any double-strand binding factor, but its antisense strand is critical for the binding of single-strand binding proteins to the [-232;-191] region. We therefore suggest that these single-strand binding proteins are involved in the inhibitory mechanism.

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