title: Transactivated minimal E1b promoter is capable of driving the expression of short hairpin RNA.
abstract: The strategy that transcribes short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) by RNA polymerase II promoters is expected to present flexible approaches for regulating the patterns of shRNA expression. The capacity of generating shRNA by a modified adenovirus RNA polymerase II E1b promoter was studied. This 49bp promoter consists of a TATA-box and an initiation element. It is demonstrated that this modified E1b promoter is capable of driving shRNA transcription and causing either long-term suppression against the target gene in response to the transactivation of constitutively expressed Gal4-VP16 fusion protein or inducible suppression given that the expression of Gal4-VP16 is subject to a dexamethasone inducer.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Mei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Fang-Jun
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Yuan-Chang
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Li-He
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Yi-Ping
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D017501:Adenovirus E1B Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D015967:Gene Expression Regulation, Viral; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics; D034622:RNA Interference; D012319:RNA Polymerase II / Q000235:genetics; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D015533:Transcriptional Activation; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D017501:Adenovirus E1B Proteins; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering; D012367:RNA, Viral; D014764:Viral Proteins; D012319:RNA Polymerase II