title: Characterization of the human interleukin-2 receptor beta-chain gene promoter: regulation of promoter activity by ets gene products.
abstract: The interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R) beta chain (IL-2R beta) is an essential signaling component of high- and intermediate-affinity IL-2Rs. Our laboratory previously reported that a DNA fragment containing 857 bp of 5'-flanking sequence of the human IL-2R beta gene exhibited promoter activity. We have now further characterized the promoter and delineated cis-acting regulatory regions. The region downstream of -363 is critical for basal and phorbol myristate acetate-inducible IL-2R beta promoter activity and contains at least three enhancer-like regions. Among them, the -56 to -34 enhancer was the most potent and had high-level activity in two T-cell lines but not in nonlymphoid HeLaS3 and MG63 cells. This enhancer contains a GGAA Ets binding site which bound two Ets family proteins, Ets-1 and GA-binding protein in vitro. Mutation of the Ets motif strongly diminished both promoter and enhancer activities. We conclude that this Ets binding site plays a key role in regulating basal and phorbol myristate acetate-inducible IL-2R beta promoter activity and may also contribute to tissue-specific expression of the IL-2R beta gene.
authors.affiliation: Section on Pulmonary and Molecular Immunology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
authors.forename: J X
authors.initials: JX
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: N K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Bhat
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: John
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Queale
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Leonard
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D004247:DNA; D004742:Enhancer Elements, Genetic; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016296:Mutagenesis; D009928:Organ Specificity; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D050784:Proto-Oncogene Protein c-ets-1; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D050783:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ets; D015375:Receptors, Interleukin-2 / Q000235:genetics*; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: C494041:ETS1 protein, human; D050784:Proto-Oncogene Protein c-ets-1; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D050783:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ets; D015375:Receptors, Interleukin-2; D014157:Transcription Factors; D004247:DNA; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate