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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 265, Issue 9, 4785-4788, Mar, 1990

cis-acting negative regulatory element of prolactin gene

ZX Zhang, V Kumar, RT Rivera, J Chisholm and DK Biswas
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.

The prolactin (PRL) gene in clonal strains of rat pituitary tumor cells in culture (GH cells) exhibit several regulatory responses, similar to the ones observed in rat pituitary gland. A comparative analysis of regulation of PRL gene expression in PRL-producing (PRL+) and PRL- nonproducing (PRL-) GH cells was conducted by monitoring the PRL promoter driven transient expression of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene in GH4C1 (PRL+) and GH12C1 (PRL-) cells. The PRL promoter activity was drastically inhibited only in PRL- nonproducing cells (PRL-) and not in PRL producing cells (PRL+) when a 80-base pair (bp) DNA sequence from 5'-flanking region of PRL gene (located between -330 and -250 bp) was included in the PRL-CAT fusion gene constructs. Furthermore, a DNA/protein interaction involving this 80-bp DNA sequence and a 60-kDa nuclear protein was detected only in PRL- cells but not in PRL+ GH cells. These results suggested that the strain-specific suppression of PRL gene in PRL-, GH12C1 cells was mediated via interaction of a cis-acting negative regulatory element with a negative regulatory trans-acting factor in these cells. The negative regulatory element within the AT-rich 80-bp DNA sequence was mapped immediately adjacent to the site of interaction of trans- activators of PRL gene.
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