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Volume 272, Number 44, Issue of October 31, 1997 pp. 27549-27557
©1997 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

A Regulatory Element within a Coding Exon Modulates Keratin 18 Gene Expression in Transgenic Mice

(Received for publication, April 3, 1997, and in revised form, June 13, 1997)

From the Burnham Institute, La Jolla, California 92037

Multiple tissue-specific, DNase-hypersensitive sites are correlated with known or potential regulatory regions of the human keratin 18 (K18) gene. One of these sites is found within exon 6, close to a potential AP-1 binding site. Footprint analysis confirmed that this site is capable of binding c-Jun and c-Fos in vitro. However, exon 6 can stimulate expression of a reporter gene driven by the K18 proximal promoter independent of AP-1 in F9 cells and additionally modulates AP-1 responsiveness when in combination with an intron enhancer. Analysis in transgenic mice and by transient transfections of mutant forms of the K18 gene showed that exon 6 contributes to the expression of the K18 gene. However, substitution of part of exon 6 with the corresponding part of the keratin 19 gene which lacks an AP-1 site decreased but did not destroy the regulatory activity of the exon. Furthermore, this mutation did not alter either the tissue specificity or the position-independent and copy number-dependent behavior of the K18 gene. In contrast, a frameshift mutation within exon 6 dramatically decreased the expression of the gene. K18 RNA expression from the frameshift mutation was less than 10% of the wild type K18 transgene. This decline in expression was the result of a combination of decreased stability of mutant K18 RNA and the creation of a negative regulatory element that can interact with the first intron regulatory elements and actively suppress K18 expression. These results demonstrate that a protein-coding portion of the K18 gene also has a regulatory function.

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