title: Functional profile of the human fetal gamma-globin gene upstream promoter region.
abstract: We performed a systematic functional analysis of the human gamma-globin promoter to identify its activator domains. We used a panel of truncation and scanning mutants as well as transfection in human K562 fetal erythroid cells. The various mutations produced relatively small changes in promoter function in both transient and stable transfection assays. The CACCC region and the region containing the binding sites for protein GATA-1 behaved as activator domains. We also obtained evidence for a minor activator site in the - 200 to - 190 region. The results are consistent with the interpretation that gamma-globin gene regulation may occur in part through multiple small effects of promoter elements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance 90502.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: C Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Nienhuis
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D015500:Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase / Q000235:genetics; D004247:DNA; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D050981:Erythroid-Specific DNA-Binding Factors; D050982:GATA1 Transcription Factor; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D005914:Globins / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D004915:Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D014157:Transcription Factors; D014162:Transfection; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D016335:Zinc Fingers
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D050981:Erythroid-Specific DNA-Binding Factors; D050982:GATA1 Transcription Factor; C494688:GATA1 protein, human; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D014157:Transcription Factors; D005914:Globins; D004247:DNA; D015500:Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase