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J Biol Chem, Vol. 274, Issue 17, 12095-12102, April 23, 1999

The CACC Box and Myocyte Enhancer Factor-2 Sites within the Myosin Light Chain 2 Slow Promoter Cooperate in Regulating Nerve-specific Transcription in Skeletal Muscle

Karyn Esser, Tricia Nelson^¶, Valerie Lupa-Kimball, and Eric Blough^¶

From the  School of Kinesiology and the ^¶ Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois 60608

Previous experiments showed that activity of the 800-base pair MLC2slow promoter was 75-fold higher in the innervated soleus (SOL) compared with the noninnervated SOL muscles. Using in vivo DNA injection of MLC2slow promoter-luciferase constructs, the aim of this project was to identify regulatory sites and potential transcription factors important for slow nerve-dependent gene expression. Three sites within the proximal promoter (myocyte enhancer factor-2 (MEF2), E-box, and CACC box) were individually mutated, and the effect on luciferase expression was determined. There was no change in luciferase expression in the SOL and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles when the E-box was mutated. In contrast, the MEF2 mutation resulted in a 30-fold decrease in expression in the innervated SOL muscles (10.3 versus 0.36 normalized relative light units (RLUs)). Transactivation of the MLC2slow promoter by overexpressing MEF2 was only seen in the innervated SOL (676,340 versus 2,225,957 RLUs; p < 0.01) with no effect in noninnervated SOL or EDL muscles. These findings suggest that the active MLC2slow promoter is sensitive to MEF2 levels, but MEF2 levels alone do not determine nerve-dependent expression. Mutation of the CACC box resulted in a significant up-regulation in the EDL muscles (0.23 versus 4.08 normalized RLUs). With the CACC box mutated, overexpression of MEF2 was sufficient to transactivate the MLC2slow promoter in noninnervated SOL muscles (27,536 versus 1,605,797 RLUs). Results from electrophoretic mobility shift and supershift assays confirm MEF2 protein binding to the MEF2 site and demonstrate specific binding to the CACC sequence. These results suggest a model for nerve-dependent regulation of the MLC2slow promoter in which derepression occurs through the CACC box followed by quantitative expression through enhanced MEF2 activation.

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