title: C/EBP binding activity to site F of the rat GLUT2 glucose transporter gene promoter is attenuated by c-Jun in vitro.
abstract: The expression of the GLUT2 glucose transporter gene in liver is suppressed in cultured hepatoma cell lines and primary cultured hepatocytes. Earlier report showed that CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP) regulates the promoter activity of the rat GLUT2 glucose transporter gene in liver cells. C/EBPalpha and C/EBPbeta activated the promoter activity by binding to at least two regions of the promoter and one of the C/EBP binding sites, named as site F, also has the AP-1 binding consensus. In this study, we investigated whether the AP-1 can influence on C/EBP binding to this site. The addition of recombinant c-Jun protein with liver extract caused the attenuation of C/EBP binding to site F with the appearance of a new shifted band. The shifted band was competed out with the addition of unlabeled AP-1 consensus oligonucleotide, indicating that c-Jun also can bind to site F. Another C/EBP site on GLUT2 promoter, site H, did not bind AP-1. Analysis of the DNA-protein complex revealed that C/EBP and c-Jun bind to site F in mutually exclusive manner rather than form heterodimeric complex with each other. From these results, it is suggested that the transcriptional activation of C/EBP may be influenced by c-Jun protein in certain status of the liver cells, such as acute phase response, as well as hepatocarcinogenesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Genetic Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seodaemoon-gu, Seoul 120-752, Korea.
authors.forename: Jae-Woo
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yong-Ho
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Ahn
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D022762:CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D051273:Glucose Transporter Type 2; D008099:Liver / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000502:physiology*; D016755:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D018808:Transcription Factor AP-1 / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D022762:CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Proteins; D051273:Glucose Transporter Type 2; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins; D016755:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D018808:Transcription Factor AP-1