Restoration of deficient APM promoter activity in HER-2/neu+ cells by selective mutations of TFBS. A, tapasin-mut-luc promoters. B and C, TAP1-mut-luc promoters (B) and TAP2-mut-luc promoters (C) and the pGL3/Enhancer vector, which served as a control (data not shown), were transiently cotransfected with the β-gal vector into HER-2/neu− and HER-2/neu+ cells 48 h prior to the determination of the luc activity using a reporter gene assay as described under “Experimental Procedures.” The data were normalized to β-gal activity. For comparison, the WT APM promoter activities in HER-2/neu− cells were set to 100%, and the respective APM promoter activities in HER-2/neu+ cells were calculated. Error bars in all panels indicate S.D. rel luc activity, relative luc activity.