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Volume 272, Number 42, Issue of October 17, 1997 pp. 26634-26642
©1997 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

Regulation of Duodenal Specific Expression of the Human Adenosine Deaminase Gene

(Received for publication, May 7, 1997, and in revised form, July 29, 1997)

From the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Developmental Biology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229

Formation of the mammalian gastrointestinal tract is an ordered process of development and differentiation. Yet, the adult small intestine also retains the plasticity to respond to cues both internal and environmental to modulate intestinal function. The components that regulate this development, differentiation, and modulation at the molecular level are only now being elucidated. We have used the human adenosine deaminase (ADA) gene as a model to identify potential cis-regulatory components involved in these processes within the small intestine. In mammals, high levels of ADA in the small intestine are limited specifically to the differentiated enterocytes within the duodenal region. These studies describe the identification of a region of the human ADA gene, completely distinct from the previously identified T-cell enhancer, which is capable of directing the human intestinal expression pattern in the intestine of transgenic mice. The reporter gene expression pattern observed in these transgenic mice is identical to the endogenous gene along both the cephalocaudal and crypt/villus axis of development. Timing of this transgene activation, however, varies from that of the endogenous mouse gene in that the transgene is activated approximately 2 weeks earlier in development. Even so, this precocious activation is also limited to the epithelium of the developing villi strictly within the duodenal region of the small intestine.

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