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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M007086200 on September 5, 2000

J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 275, Issue 47, 36605-36611, November 24, 2000
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Identification and Characterization of a Critical CP2-binding Element in the Human Interleukin-4 Promoter*

Vincenzo CasolaroDagger §, Andrea M. Keane-Myers, Steven L. Swendeman||, Corinna SteindlerDagger , Fengming Zhong||, Michael Sheffery||, Steve N. GeorasDagger , and Santa Jeremy Ono**

From the Dagger  Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, the  Schepens Eye Research Institute and Committee on Immunology and Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, and the || Molecular Biology Program and Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell University, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021

Expression of cytokine genes in T cells is thought to result from a complex network of antigen- and mitogen-activated transcriptional regulators. CP2, a factor homologous to Drosophila Elf-1 and previously found to be a critical regulator of several viral and cellular genes in response to developmental signals, is rapidly activated in T helper (Th) cells in response to mitogenic stimulation. Here we show that overexpression of CP2 enhances interleukin (IL)-4 promoter-driven chloramphenicol acetyltransferase expression, while repressing IL-2 promoter activity, in transiently transfected Jurkat cells. A CP2-protected element, partially overlapping the nuclear factor of activated T cell-binding P2 sequence, was required for IL-4 promoter activation in CP2-overexpressing Jurkat cells. This CP2-response element is the site of a cooperative interaction between CP2 and an inducible heteromeric co-factor(s). Mutation of conserved nucleotide contacts within the CP2-response element prevented CP2 binding and significantly reduced constitutive and induced IL-4 promoter activity. Expression of a CP2 mutant lacking the Elf-1-homology region of the DNA-binding domain inhibited IL-4 promoter activity in a dominant negative fashion in transiently transfected Jurkat cells. Moreover, overexpressed CP2 markedly enhanced, while its dominant negative mutant consistently suppressed, expression of the endogenous IL-4 gene in the murine Th2 cell line D10. Taken together, these findings point to CP2 as a critical IL-4 transactivator in Th cells.


* This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants AI41463 (to V. C.), AI01152 (to S. N. G.), GM49661, EY1901, EY12523, and CA89559 (to S. J. O.).The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

§ To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 410-550-2068; Fax: 410-550-2090; E-mail: casolaro@mail.jhmi.edu.

** Supported by a fund from the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust (Miami, FL).


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