Abstract
The cardiac myosin light chain-2 (MLC-2) gene promoter contains several positive and negative cis-acting sequences that are involved in the regulation of its expression. We describe here the properties of two activator sequences, elements A and P, and their DNA-binding factors (ABFs). Element A (CCAAAAGTGG), located at -61, has homology with the evolutionarily conserved sequence CC(A/T)6GG, present in the genes of many contractile proteins. Element P (TAACCTTGAAAGC), located 114 bp upstream of element A, is conserved in both chicken and rat cardiac MLC-2 gene promoters. Deletion mutagenesis demonstrated that these two elements are involved in the positive regulation of MLC-2 gene transcription. At least two sequence-specific element A-binding proteins, ABF-1 and ABF-2, were identified by gel shift analysis of the fractionated cardiac nuclear proteins. ABF-1 binds to element A with strict dependence on the internal element A sequence AAAAGT. In contrast, ABF-2 exhibits a relaxed sequence requirement, as it recognizes the consensus CArG and CCAAT box sequences as well. ABF-2 also recognizes the distal element P despite the fact that the sequences of elements A and P are divergent. DNase I footprinting, methylation interference, and gel shift analyses demonstrated unequivocally that the element A-DNA affinity-purified protein ABF-2 binds to element P with sequence specificity. Since both elements A and P play a positive regulatory role in MLC-2 gene transcription and bind to a single protein (ABF-2), it would appear that ABF-2 is a key transcription factor with the ability to recognize divergent sequence elements involved in a common regulatory pathway during myogenesis.
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