title: Promoter-specific transactivation of hepatitis B virus transcription by a glutamine- and proline-rich domain of hepatocyte nuclear factor 1.
abstract: The cloned transcription factor hepatocyte nuclear factor 1 (HNF1) transactivates transcription from the hepatitis B virus (HBV) large surface antigen promoter but does not influence the transcriptional activities of the other three HBV promoters. This indicates that this transcription factor can differentially influence the activities of the HBV promoter. By using a transient-transfection system, the major domain of the HNF1 polypeptide involved in transcriptional activation of the large surface antigen promoter in the human hepatoma cell line HepG2.1 has been mapped to a region that is rich in glutamine and proline residues (9 of 18) and is different from the previously identified regions of this factor responsible for in vitro transcriptional activation of a promoter containing human albumin promoter HNF1 binding sites. The human albumin promoter HNF1 binding site mediates transcriptional activation through the same HNF1 polypeptide domain as the HBV large surface antigen promoter HNF1 binding site in transient-transfection assays with HepG2.1 cells, suggesting that HNF1 may possess multiple transcriptional activation domains.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California 92037.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Raney
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Easton
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Milich
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McLachlan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000954:Antigens, Surface / Q000235:genetics; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular; D002460:Cell Line; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D016679:Genome, Viral; D005973:Glutamine; D006515:Hepatitis B virus / Q000235:genetics*; D051537:Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1; D051538:Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-alpha; D051539:Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-beta; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D010957:Plasmids; D011392:Proline; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D051381:Rats; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D015533:Transcriptional Activation; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D000954:Antigens, Surface; D000956:Antigens, Viral; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C496487:HNF1A protein, human; C496495:HNF1B protein, human; D051538:Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-alpha; C496489:Hnf1a protein, rat; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D014157:Transcription Factors; D005973:Glutamine; D051537:Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1; D051539:Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-beta; D011392:Proline