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Volume 272, Number 24, Issue of June 13, 1997 pp. 15405-15412
©1997 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

Regulation of the Human Chorionic Gonadotropin alpha - and beta -Subunit Promoters by AP-2

(Received for publication, November 12, 1996, and in revised form, March 19, 1997)

Wade Johnson Dagger , Chris Albanese Dagger , Stuart Handwerger , Trevor Williams par , Richard G. Pestell Dagger and J. Larry Jameson Dagger

From the Dagger  Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Molecular Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611, the  Department of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, and the par  Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Production of the placental hormone, chorionic gonadotropin (CG), increases dramatically as cytotrophoblasts fuse to form syncytiotrophoblasts. The CG alpha - and beta -promoters are both responsive to cAMP, although the kinetics of cAMP stimulation are different. In an effort to understand the mechanisms of coordinate induction of these genes, AP-2 binding sites were identified in the promoter regions of the alpha  and CGbeta genes. AP-2 bound to the upstream regulatory element (-186 to -156 base pairs (bp)) in the alpha -promoter and to several different regions of the CGbeta promoter, including footprints 2 and 4B (FP2, -311 to -279 bp; FP4B, 221 to -200 bp). AP-2 antibodies induced supershifts of these complexes, confirming the identity of the protein-DNA complex. In JEG-3 cells, which contain abundant AP-2, mutations in these CGbeta AP-2 sites reduced basal activity and decreased cAMP stimulation. In AP-2-deficient Hep-G2 cells, co-transfection of AP-2 stimulated expression of the CGbeta promoter 10-20-fold, and the alpha -promoter was induced by 3-6-fold. Mutations that eliminate AP-2 binding to CGbeta FP4B reduced AP-2 stimulation by more than 80%, whereas mutations in FP2 reduced AP-2 stimulation by less than 50%. Analyses of AP-2 mutants revealed a requirement for the DNA binding/dimerization domain and the amino-terminal proline-rich and acid-rich transactivation domains for stimulation of the CGbeta promoter. Primary cultures of placental cytotrophoblasts were differentiated into syncytiotrophoblasts in vitro to examine AP-2 expression by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. AP-2 mRNA levels increased by day 2 and continued to rise in parallel with a marked increase in alpha  and CGbeta gene expression. We conclude that both the alpha  and CGbeta promoters contain binding sites for AP-2 and suggest that this transcription factor provides a mechanism for coordinating the induction of these genes during placental cell differentiation.


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