We have identified a second hepatic control region (HCR-2) in the human apolipoprotein (apo) E gene locus that confers liver expression of the human apoE gene in transgenic mice. This HCR-2 sequence is located 27 kilobases downstream of the apoE gene and 10 kilobases downstream of the previously described liver-specific enhancer (HCR-1). Nucleotide sequence analysis of the HCR-2 region revealed a sequence that shares 85% identity to the functional 319-base pair domain of HCR-1. To test its activity, transgenic mice were prepared with a fusion construct containing a human apoE gene fragment, which is not normally expressed in the liver, ligated to a 632-base pair region containing the HCR-2 sequence. This construct resulted in high levels of liver-specific apoE transgene expression, indicating that HCR-2 can function as a hepatic enhancer and has an activity similar to that of HCR-1. Hence, these findings suggest that there are at least two hepatic control regions, HCR-1 and HCR-2, capable of controlling the liver expression of this human apolipoprotein gene locus.

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