title: Effect of "enhancer" sequences on ventricular myosin light chain-2 promoter activity in heart muscle and nonmuscle cells.
abstract: Positive (HF-1 and HF-2) and negative (HF-3) elements responsible for cardiac-specificity of the rat ventricular myosin light chain-2 (MLC-2v) promoter are contained in a 250 base pair region. The effect of the simian virus 40 (SV40) enhancer or 3 copies of the HF-1, HF-2 and HF-3 elements on MLC-2v promoter activity and specificity was assessed in neonatal rat cardiac myocytes and cardiac nonmuscle cells as well as rat heart myoblast H9c2 and glioma (nonmuscle) C6 cell lines. The SV40 enhancer increased promoter activity by at least 10-fold in both muscle and nonmuscle cell types; however, there was a decrease in cardiac ventricular myocyte-specificity. In contrast, the 3 copies of HF-1, HF-2 and HF-3 elements stimulated MLC-2v promoter activity approximately 3-fold in neonatal ventricular cardiac myocytes alone and, effectively, displayed about a 5-fold increase in specificity over the wild type MLC-2v promoter.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Pasumarthi
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Bock
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kardami
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Cattini
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D017931:DNA Primers; D004742:Enhancer Elements, Genetic; D005910:Glioma; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D009218:Myosins / Q000235:genetics*; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D009218:Myosins