title: Context-dependent Pax-5 repression of a PU.1/NF-kappaB regulated reporter gene in B lineage cells.
abstract: Enhancers located in the 3' end of the locus in part regulate immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene expression. One of these enhancers, HS 1,2, is developmentally regulated by DNA binding proteins like NF-kappaB, Pax-5 and the protein complex NF-alphaP in B lineage cells. Here we report that NF-alphaP is the ets protein PU.1. A glutathione-S-transferase (GST)-pulldown assay demonstrated that PU.1 can physically interact with NF-kappaB in solution. Experiments in COS cells showed that PU.1 and NF-kappaB (p50/c-Rel) can activate transcription of an enhancer linked reporter gene. The paired domain protein Pax-5 has previously been shown to repress enhancer-dependent transcription. Additional co-transfection experiments revealed that PU.1/NF-kappaB dependent transcription could be repressed in a context dependent manner by Pax-5, but not by the paired domain of Pax-5. When the PU.1 binding site was substituted with a binding site for the ets-protein Elf-1, Pax-5 could no longer repress reporter gene activity. Our data indicate a model where Pax-5 mediated repression of the HS 1,2 enhancer requires the recruitment of a co-factor which is dependent on Pax-5/PU.1 but which cannot be recruited by Pax-5/Elf-1.
authors.affiliation: Center for Genomics Research, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Linderson
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: French
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Neurath
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pettersson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000502:physiology*; D019556:COS Cells; D019070:Cell Lineage; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006224:Cricetinae; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D004742:Enhancer Elements, Genetic / Q000235:genetics; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D017930:Genes, Reporter; D005914:Globins / Q000235:genetics; D008223:Lymphoma; D051379:Mice; D016328:NF-kappa B / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D051757:PAX5 Transcription Factor; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D015534:Trans-Activators / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D000099232:Proto-Oncogene Protein Spi-1
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005914:Globins; D016328:NF-kappa B; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D051757:PAX5 Transcription Factor; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D015534:Trans-Activators; D014157:Transcription Factors; D000099232:Proto-Oncogene Protein Spi-1; C497282:Pax5 protein, mouse