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Volume 271, Number 40,
Issue of October 4, 1996
pp. 24639-24648
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
GHF-1/Pit-1 Functions as a Cell-specific Integrator of Ras
Signaling by Targeting the Ras Pathway to a Composite Ets-1/GHF-1
Response Element
(Received for publication, February 22, 1996, and in revised form, July 19, 1996)
Andrew P.
Bradford
,
Kerry E.
Conrad
,
Phat H.
Tran
,
Michael C.
Ostrowski
¶
and
Arthur
Gutierrez-Hartmann
From the Departments of Medicine and of Biochemistry,
Biophysics and Genetics, Program in Molecular Biology, and Colorado
Cancer Center, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver,
Colorado 80262 and the ¶ Department of Molecular Genetics, Ohio
State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Activation of the rat prolactin (rPRL) promoter
by Ras is a prototypical example of tissue-specific transcriptional
regulation in a highly differentiated cell type. Using a series of
site-specific mutations and deletions of the proximal rPRL promoter we
have mapped the major Ras/Raf response element (RRE) to a composite
Ets-1/GHF-1 binding site located between positions 217 and 190.
Mutation of either the Ets-1 or GHF-1 binding sites inhibits Ras and
Raf activation of the rPRL promoter, and insertion of this RRE into the
rat growth hormone promoter confers Ras responsiveness. We show that
Ets-1 is expressed in GH4 cells and, consistent with their
functional synergistic interaction, both Ets-1 and GHF-1 are able to
bind specifically to this bipartite RRE. We confirm that Ets-1 or a
related Ets factor is the nuclear target of the Ras pathway leading to
activation of the rPRL promoter and demonstrate that Elk-1 and Net do
not mediate the Ras response. Thus, the pituitary-specific POU
homeodomain transcription factor, GHF-1, serves as a cell-specific
signal integrator by functionally interacting with an Ets-1-like
factor, at uniquely juxtaposed binding sites, thereby targeting an
otherwise ubiquitous Ras signaling pathway to a select subset of
cell-specific GHF-1-dependent genes.

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