title: The heme-responsive element of the mouse heme oxygenase-1 gene is an extended AP-1 binding site that resembles the recognition sequences for MAF and NF-E2 transcription factors.
abstract: Jun and Fos (AP-1) transcription factors were recently proposed to mediate induction of the mouse heme oxygenase-1 gene by different agents including heme and cadmium. In this report we show that the AP-1 binding sequence, TGAGTCA, is necessary but insufficient for gene activation in response to heme or cadmium. The minimal heme response element was identified as an extended AP-1 binding site, (T/C)GCTGAGTCA. In addition to the AP-1 heptad, this element also contains an interdigitated antioxidant response element, GCnnnGTCA. Specific antioxidant response elements from the NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase-1 and the glutathione S-transferase Ya subunit genes were in fact responsive to heme but not all sequences that conform to the consensus antioxidant response element were activated by this agent. The heme response element resembles the consensus binding sites for the product of the maf oncogene and for the transcription factor NF-E2. The potential role of these and related transcription factors and the implication of the composite heme response element in heme oxygenase-1 gene regulation are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Genetics, Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans 70121, USA.
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Inamdar
authors.forename: Y I
authors.initials: YI
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Alam
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D002460:Cell Line; D015500:Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase / Q000235:genetics; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004742:Enhancer Elements, Genetic; D050981:Erythroid-Specific DNA-Binding Factors; D006419:Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing) / Q000235:genetics*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D050983:NF-E2 Transcription Factor; D050984:NF-E2 Transcription Factor, p45 Subunit; D051256:Oncogene Protein v-maf; D009856:Oncogene Proteins, Viral / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D018808:Transcription Factor AP-1 / Q000378:metabolism*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D014764:Viral Proteins
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D050981:Erythroid-Specific DNA-Binding Factors; D050983:NF-E2 Transcription Factor; D050984:NF-E2 Transcription Factor, p45 Subunit; C494693:Nfe2 protein, mouse; D051256:Oncogene Protein v-maf; D009856:Oncogene Proteins, Viral; D018808:Transcription Factor AP-1; D014157:Transcription Factors; D014764:Viral Proteins; D006419:Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing); D015500:Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase