title: Structure and regulation of the chicken GATA-3 gene.
abstract: To elucidate the mechanisms underlying the tissue-restricted expression of GATA factor transcription, we have isolated and analyzed the genomic chicken GATA-3 (cGATA-3) locus. Structural analysis of the clones showed that the cGATA-3 gene consists of six exons which span more than 19 kb. Two trans-activating domains and two Zn finger domains of cGATA-3 were found to be encoded separately by exons 2/3 and 4/5, respectively, indicating that each functional domain of GATA-3 is encoded by a discrete exon. We have determined 1.7 kb of upstream promoter sequence and found a number of sequence motifs which match those of known transcription factor binding sites. Activities of presumptive regulatory regions of this gene were assessed by transfecting chimeric constructs into a chicken T cell line MSB-1. The results showed three features of cGATA-3 gene regulation. The basal promoter activity of the cGATA-3 gene is determined by sequences lying between -104 and -29 bp of the promoter region. The upstream region containing the GATA and CACCC elements in close proximity (-1280 to -1152) appeared to act as a negative transcriptional regulator, whereas the region -1151 to -850 acts as a positive regulator. Thus, the expression of cGATA-3 gene is under complex regulation and the mode of regulation of cGATA-3 gene expression is suggested to be different from that of GATA-1 genes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ishihara
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Engel
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002645:Chickens / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D016384:Consensus Sequence; D005091:Exons; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000502:physiology*; D017930:Genes, Reporter; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D015151:Immunoblotting; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D015533:Transcriptional Activation