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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 265, Issue 12, 6525-6527, Apr, 1990

Novel regulatory enhancer in the nuclear gene of the human mitochondrial ATP synthase beta-subunit

H Tomura, H Endo, Y Kagawa and S Ohta
Department of Biochemistry, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi-ken, Japan.

The system coordinating expressions of nuclear coded mitochondrial proteins was investigated by examination of the 5'-flanking region of the human mitochondrial ATP synthase beta-subunit gene. The promoter activity was measured by a transient expression of a chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene connected with various 5'-deletion mutants of the 5'-flanking region. In this experiment, at least two regions enhanced this promoter activity and at least one region repressed it. In one of the enhancing regions, a consensus sequence was found for the genes of other mitochondrial proteins such as those for cytochrome c1 (Suzuki, H., Hosokawa, Y., Nishikimi, M., and Ozawa, T. (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 1368-1374) and the pyruvate dehydrogenase alpha-subunit (Maragos, C., Hutchison, W. M., Hayasaka, K., Brown, G. K., and Dahl, H.-H. M. (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 12294-12298; Ohta, S., Endo, H., Matsuda, K., and Kagawa, Y. (1989) Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 573, 458-460). The characteristics of this enhancing element were examined by introducing a synthetic oligonucleotide element into the CAT plasmid with a deleted enhancing element. The resulting plasmid showed full recovery of promoter activity, and this activity was independent of the orientation or location of the insert. Therefore, this is an enhancer that may be common to the nuclear genes of some mitochondrial proteins involved in energy transduction.
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