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. 1993 Jan;13(1):89–97. doi: 10.1128/mcb.13.1.89

Identification of a negative element in the human vimentin promoter: modulation by the human T-cell leukemia virus type I Tax protein.

A Salvetti 1, A Lilienbaum 1, Z Li 1, D Paulin 1, L Gazzolo 1
PMCID: PMC358888  PMID: 8417364

Abstract

The vimentin gene is a member of the intermediate filament multigene family and encodes a protein expressed, in vivo, in all mesenchymal derivatives and, in vitro, in cell types of various origin. We have previously demonstrated that the expression of this growth-regulated gene could be trans activated by the 40-kDa Tax protein of HTLV-I (human T-cell leukemia virus type I) and that responsiveness to this viral protein was mediated by the presence of an NF-kappa B binding site located between -241 and -210 bp upstream of the mRNA cap site (A. Lilienbaum, M. Duc Dodon, C. Alexandre, L. Gazzolo, and D. Paulin, J. Virol. 64:256-263, 1990). These previous assays, performed with deletion mutants of the vimentin promoter linked to the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene, also revealed the presence of an upstream negative region between -529 and -241 bp. Interestingly, the inhibitory activity exerted by this negative region was overcome after cotransfection of a Tax-expressing plasmid. In this study, we further characterize the vimentin negative element and define the effect of the Tax protein on the inhibitory activity of this element. We first demonstrate that a 187-bp domain (-424 to -237 bp) behaves as a negative region when placed upstream either of the NF-kappa B binding site of vimentin or of a heterologous enhancer such as that present in the desmin gene promoter. The negative effect can be further assigned to a 32-bp element which is indeed shown to repress the basal or induced activity of the NF-kappa B binding site.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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