title: Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor induces Egr-1 up-regulation through interaction of serum response element-binding proteins.
abstract: Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) stimulates the proliferation and maturation of myeloid progenitor cells both in vitro and in vivo. We showed that G-CSF rapidly and transiently induces expression of egr-1 in the NFS60 myeloid cell line. Transient transfections of NFS60 cells with recombinant constructs containing various deletions of the human egr-1 promoter identified the serum response element (SRE) between nucleotides (nt) -418 and -391 as a critical G-CSF-responsive sequence. The SRE (SRE-1) contains a CArG box, the binding site for the serum response factor (SRF), which is flanked at either side by an ETS protein binding site. We demonstrated that a single copy of the wild-type SRE-1 in the minimal promoter plasmid, pTE2, is sufficient to induce transcriptional activation in response to G-CSF and that both the ETS protein binding site and the CArG box are required for maximal transcriptional activation of the pTE2-SRE-1 construct. In electromobility shift assays using NFS60 nuclear extracts, we identified SRF and the ETS protein Fli-1 as proteins that bind the SRE-1. We also demonstrated through electrophoretic mobility shift assays, using an SRE-1 probe containing a CArG mutation, that Fli-1 binds the SRE-1 independently of SRF. Our data suggest that SRE-binding proteins potentially play a role in G-CSF-induced egr-1 expression in myeloid cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mora-Garcia
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D051766:Early Growth Response Protein 1; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D017874:Immediate-Early Proteins; D051379:Mice; D009154:Mutation; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D020218:Response Elements / Q000235:genetics; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D015854:Up-Regulation / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C497325:EGR1 protein, human; D051766:Early Growth Response Protein 1; C486109:Egr1 protein, mouse; D017874:Immediate-Early Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor