title: A thyroid-specific nuclear protein essential for tissue-specific expression of the thyroglobulin promoter.
abstract: A rat thyroglobulin promoter fragment, capable of directing thyroid-specific transcription, binds at least three different factors, TTF-1, TTF-2 and UFA, which are all present in nuclear extracts of the differentiated rat thyroid cell line FRTL-5. TTF-1 and TTF-2 are FRTL-5 specific, as demonstrated by their absence in nuclear extracts prepared from cell lines that do not express any thyroid-differentiated function, while UFA is present in all cell lines tested. TTF-1 has been extensively purified. It binds to the rat thyroglobulin promoter at three different sites which share sequence homology. Mutations in two of the three sites decrease both binding of TTF-1 in vitro and promoter function in vivo. This suggests that the tissue-specific expression of the thyroglobulin genes is mediated, at least in part, by the presence of a transcription factor exclusively in thyroid cells.
authors.affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, FRG.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Civitareale
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lonigro
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Sinclair
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Di Lauro
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D002460:Cell Line; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000502:physiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D009928:Organ Specificity; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D051381:Rats; D013954:Thyroglobulin / Q000235:genetics*; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000032:analysis* / Q000166:cytology
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D013954:Thyroglobulin