title: Identification of negative and positive regulatory elements in the human renin gene.
abstract: Renin gene expression is tissue-specific and under complex hormonal control. To investigate which DNA elements are involved in the control of human renin gene expression, we performed transient DNA transfer experiments with renin-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase fusions. We have mapped a complex arrangement of positive and negative control sequences in the 5' flanking region of the human renin gene. One positive control element is active in either orientation and defines a renin gene enhancer. The negative element is also active in either orientation and defines a renin gene silencer. Mapping in the same region as the silencer is a cAMP-responsive element, a sequence conserved in mouse, rat, and human renin genes.
authors.affiliation: Division of Vascular Medicine and Atherosclerosis, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Burt
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kelley
authors.forename: V J
authors.initials: VJ
authors.lastname: Dzau
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015500:Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase / Q000235:genetics; D002822:Choriocarcinoma; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000494:pharmacology; D004742:Enhancer Elements, Genetic; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D051381:Rats; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012083:Renin / Q000235:genetics*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D000242:Cyclic AMP; D015500:Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase; D012083:Renin