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Activation of an intron enhancer within the keratin 18 gene by expression of c-fos and c-jun in undifferentiated F9 embryonal carcinoma cells.

Cancer Research Center, La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, California 92037.

Abstract

The mouse forms of human keratins 18 and 8 (K18 and K8) are the first members of the large intermediate filament gene family to be expressed during embryogenesis. To identify potential regulatory elements of the human K18 gene, various recombinant constructions were expressed in cultured cells. An enhancer element was found in the first intron that functions on both the K18 and thymidine kinase promoters in differentiated cells. In F9 embryonal carcinoma cells, the level of expression was low in the presence or absence of the first intron. Cotransfection of F9 cells with K18 constructs that include the first intron and increasing amounts of an expression vector of c-jun results in a modest increase in the reporter gene expression. Cotransfection of the same construct with increasing amount of the mouse c-fos gene results in activation of the reporter gene by as much as 15-fold, with a near linear response to the amount of c-fos gene added. Site-specific mutagenesis of a putative AP-1 site within the intron abolishes trans-activation by c-fos in F9 cells. Furthermore, induction of c-fos in a derivative of F9 cells results in increased expression of the endogenous mouse form of K18. Cotransfection with c-jun or c-fos expression vectors had little effect on the expression of the K18 reporter construct in a parietal endodermal cell line already expressing the endogenous mouse gene. These results identify an enhancer within the first intron of K18 that may interact directly with c-jun and c-fos via a conserved AP-1-binding site. K18 expression in undifferentiated F9 cells may be limited by the low levels of c-jun and c-fos.

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