title: The SIF binding element confers sis/PDGF inducibility onto the c-fos promoter.
abstract: The c-fos proto-oncogene is rapidly and transiently induced by a variety of extracellular stimuli. We have previously shown that conditioned media from v-sis transformed NRK cells rapidly induces a DNA binding protein which binds to a conserved sequence upstream of the human c-fos gene. We now show that purified recombinant c-sis/PDGF can induce this binding activity which we have termed SIF, for sis-inducible factor. Oligonucleotides which bind to the SIF protein will confer sis/PDGF inducibility onto a truncated, unresponsive c-fos promoter. However, sequences lying between -100 and -57 of the c-fos gene are required for this induction. The sis-responsive element functions independently of a region of dyad symmetry previously identified as the serum responsive element (SRE). The time course of c-fos expression driven by the sis-responsive element is similar to that mediated by the SRE. Unlike the SRE, which can respond to signals generated by sis/PDGF, serum or phorbol esters, the SIF binding element mediates c-fos induction only in response to sis/PDGF. The SRE and SIF elements function in an additive manner to stimulate the transcription of the c-fos gene in response to sis/PDGF.
authors.affiliation: MIT Center for Cancer Research, Cambridge.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: T E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Hayes
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Hoban
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Cochran
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D009857:Oncogenes; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D016760:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000235:genetics*; D017479:Receptors, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor; D026362:Serum Response Factor
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C000715470:MAS1 protein, human; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D016760:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D026362:Serum Response Factor; D017479:Receptors, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor