title: Regulation of the human interferon-inducible 6-16 promoter in tumor necrosis factor-sensitive and resistant mouse cells: role of cAMP as a mediator of signal transduction.
abstract: The human intgerferon (IFN)-inducible 6-16 gene is also induced by tumor necrosis factor (TNF) in human and mouse cells. A reporter gene carrying the IFN regulatory sequences of the human IFN-inducible 6-16 promoter linked to the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyl-transferase gene was transfected into the adipocyte-differentiating fibroblast cell line TA1 and a TNF-resistant derivative (TA1 R-6). Both IFN and TNF induced the 6-16 reporter gene in TA1 cells. However, the induction of 6-16 by TNF was abolished by antibodies to IFNs-alpha/beta. In the TNF-resistant derivative (TA1 R6) TNF failed to induce the 6-16 plasmid construct. IFN, on the other hand, effectively induced the 6-16 promoter in TA1-R6. The block in activation of the 6-16 promoter in TNF-resistant cells can be reversed by the addition of compounds that increased the intracellular concentration of cAMP. These cAMP analogs induced IFN secretion in parental cells but not in the TA1-R6 cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chernajovsky
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Reid
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000502:physiology*; D003513:Cycloheximide / Q000494:pharmacology; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D004351:Drug Resistance; D006801:Humans; D007370:Interferon Type I / Q000494:pharmacology; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000187:drug effects; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D007370:Interferon Type I; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D004247:DNA; D003513:Cycloheximide; D000242:Cyclic AMP