title: Intragenic sequences affect the expression of the gene encoding glial fibrillary acidic protein.
abstract: We show that the expression of the gene encoding glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) gene is affected by at least three cis-acting elements. A positive regulatory element that is located between nucleotides -1,631 and -1,479 can confer cell type-specific expression on a heterologous gene. A second regulatory element is located between nucleotides -97 and -80. The third is a negative regulatory element that is located within the first intron of the gene. Deletion of this element activates GFAP expression in HeLa cells, and affects promoter function in glioma cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, New York University Medical Center, New York 10016.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sarkar
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Cowan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001254:Astrocytoma; D002460:Cell Line; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D015870:Gene Expression; D005796:Genes; D005809:Genes, Regulator; D005904:Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein / Q000235:genetics*; D005910:Glioma; D006367:HeLa Cells / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007438:Introns; D010957:Plasmids
chemical_list: D005904:Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein