title: A phorbol ester response element within the human T-cell receptor beta-chain enhancer.
abstract: The activity of the T-cell receptor beta-chain gene enhancer is increased by activators of the protein kinase C pathway during T-cell activation. Analysis of mutant enhancer constructs identified two elements, beta E2 and beta E3, conferring phorbol ester inducibility. Multimerized beta E2 acted in isolation as a phorbol ester-responsive element. Both beta E2 and beta E3, which contain a consensus Ets-binding site, were shown to bind directly to the product of the c-ets-1 protooncogene. Both regions also bound a second factor, core-binding factor. Mutation of the beta E2 Ets site abolished the inducibility of the beta E2 multimer. beta E2 and beta E3 Ets site mutations also profoundly affected activity and inducibility of the enhancer. In contrast, enhancer activity but not its inducibility was affected by mutation of the beta E2 core-binding factor site. Cotransfection studies showed that Ets-1 specifically repressed activity of the multimerized beta E2 element and the complete T-cell receptor beta-chain enhancer. These data show that the T-cell receptor beta-chain enhancer responds to protein kinase C-mediated activation signals via a functional domain, composed of two elements, which contains binding sites for Ets transcription factors and which is negatively regulated by Ets-1.
authors.affiliation: Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Prosser
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wotton
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gegonne
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ghysdael
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Speck
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Owen
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D004742:Enhancer Elements, Genetic; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides / Q000737:chemistry; D010703:Phorbol Esters / Q000494:pharmacology*; D050784:Proto-Oncogene Protein c-ets-1; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D050783:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ets; D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta / Q000235:genetics*; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C494041:ETS1 protein, human; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D010703:Phorbol Esters; D050784:Proto-Oncogene Protein c-ets-1; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D050783:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ets; D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta; D014157:Transcription Factors