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Volume 272, Number 27, Issue of July 4, 1997 pp. 17112-17117
©1997 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

Structure of the m1 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Gene and Its Promoter

(Received for publication, March 11, 1997)

From the Wellcome Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom

The m1 receptor is one of five muscarinic receptors that mediate the metabotropic actions of acetylcholine in the nervous system where it is expressed predominantly in the telencephalon and autonomic ganglia. RNase protection, primer extension, and 5-rapid amplification of cDNA ends analysis of a rat cosmid clone containing the entire m1 gene demonstrated that the rat m1 gene consists of a single 657-base pairs (bp) non-coding exon separated by a 13.5-kilobase (kb) intron from a 2.54-kb coding exon that contains the entire open reading frame. The splice acceptor for the coding exon starting at 71 bp relative to the adenine of the initiating methionine. This genomic structure is similar to that of the m4 gene (Wood, I. C., Roopra, A., Harrington, C. A., and Buckley, N. J. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 30933-30940 and Wood, I. C., Roopra, A., and Buckley, N. J. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 14221-14225). Like the m4 gene, the m1 promoter lacks TATA and CAAT consensus motifs, and the first exon and 5-flanking region are not gc-rich. The 5-flanking region also contains the consensus regulatory elements Sp-1, NZF-1, AP-1, AP-2, E-box, NFB, and Oct-1. Unike the m4 promoter, there is no evidence of a RE1/NRSE silencer element in the m1 promoter. Deletional analysis and transient transfection assays demonstrates that reporter constructs containing 0.9 kb of 5-flanking sequence and the first exon are sufficient to drive cell-specific expression of reporter gene in IMR32 neuroblastoma cells while remaining silent in 3T3 fibrobasts.

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