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Volume 270, Number 29, Issue of July 21, pp. 17521-17527, 1995
©1995 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Yuchio Yanagawa , James C. Chen , Lily C. Hsu , Akira Yoshida

From the Department of Biochemical Genetics, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California 91010

Human cytosolic aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1) plays a role in the biosynthesis of retinoic acid that is a modulator for gene expression and cell differentiation. Northern blot analysis showed that liver tissue, pancreas tissue, hepatoma cells, and genital skin fibroblast cells expressed high levels of ALDH1. Sequence analysis showed that the 5`-flanking region contains a number of putative regulatory elements, such as NF-IL6, HNF-5, GATA binding sites, and putative response elements for interleukin-6, phenobarbital and androgen, in addition to a noncanonical TATA box (ATAAA) and a CCAAT box. Functional characterization of the 5`-regulatory region of the human ALDH1 gene was carried out by a fusion to the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene. A construct containing 2.6 kilobase pairs of the 5`-flanking region was efficiently expressed in hepatoma Hep3B cells, but not in erythroleukemic K562 cells or in fibroblast LTK cells, which do not express ALDH1. Within this region, we define a minimal promoter (-91 to +53) that contains positive regulatory elements. The study using site-directed mutagenesis demonstrated that the CCAAT box region is the major cis-acting element involved in basal ALDH1 promoter activity in Hep3B cells. Gel mobility shift assays showed that NF-Y and other octamer factors bound CCAAT box and an octamer motif sequence, but not GATA site existing in the minimal promoter region. Two additional DNA binding activities associated with the minimal promoter were found in the nuclear extract from Hep3B cells, but not from K562 cells. These results offer the possible molecular mechanism of the cell type-specific expression of ALDH1 gene.

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