title: Lymphoid enhancer-binding factor-1 binds and activates the recombination-activating gene-2 promoter together with c-Myb and Pax-5 in immature B cells.
abstract: The recombination-activating gene (RAG)-1 and RAG-2 are expressed specifically in immature lymphoid cells undergoing the recombination of Ag receptor genes. We studied the regulation of murine RAG-2 promoter and revealed that -41/-17 RAG-2 promoter region, which was indispensable for the RAG-2 promoter activity in B cell lines, contained binding sites for lymphoid enhancer-binding factor-1 (LEF-1), c-Myb, and Pax-5. We showed that these three transcription factors bound the promoter region in vitro and in vivo. Cotransfection assays using a human embryonic kidney cell line (293T) showed that LEF-1, c-Myb, and Pax-5 cooperatively activated the RAG-2 promoter, via their synergistic DNA binding. We also showed that LEF-1, c-Myb, and Pax-5 physically interact in the cells. Finally, we demonstrated that a dominant-negative LEF-1 protein, which lacks the binding site for beta-catenin, suppressed the RAG-2 promoter activity as well as the endogenous RAG-2 expression in a pre-B cell line (18.81). These results suggest that LEF-1/beta-catenin complex regulates the RAG-2 promoter activation in concert with c-Myb and Pax-5 in immature B cells. The link between LEF-1/beta-catenin and Wnt signaling in B lineage cells will be discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sugitani, Toyama, Japan.
authors.forename: Zhe-Xiong
authors.initials: ZX
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kishi
authors.forename: Xing-Cheng
authors.initials: XC
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsuda
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Muraguchi
mesh_terms: D020121:5' Untranslated Regions / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D016175:B-Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000276:immunology; D002460:Cell Line; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D004357:Drug Synergism; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000276:immunology*; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D051821:Lymphoid Enhancer-Binding Factor 1; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D051379:Mice; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D051757:PAX5 Transcription Factor; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000276:immunology*; D011485:Protein Binding / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D020598:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myb / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D020121:5' Untranslated Regions; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C497573:LEF1 protein, human; C497574:Lef1 protein, mouse; D051821:Lymphoid Enhancer-Binding Factor 1; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D051757:PAX5 Transcription Factor; C497281:PAX5 protein, human; C497282:Pax5 protein, mouse; D020598:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myb; C499311:RAG2 protein, human; C499308:Rag2 protein, mouse; D014157:Transcription Factors; C064655:V(D)J recombination activating protein 2