title: Characterization of the human CREB3L2 gene promoter.
abstract: CREB3L2 encodes a member of the CREB3 family of transcription factors. We characterized its promoter region, showing that it is asymmetrically bidirectional, also driving the expression of a variant of AKR1D1. It has a CRE binding site which is conserved among mammalians; removal or alteration of it resulted in reduced promoter activity. When transiently transfecting the HEK293 cell line with constructs with partially deleted promoter regions, 5' deletions beyond 1058-bp upstream of the transcription starting site resulted in successive reduction of the activity. The inclusion of the untranslated part of CREB3L2 exon 1 strongly inhibited the promoter activity. Forskolin resulted in a decreased reporter activity, whereas phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate increased the promoter activity irrespective of the status of the CRE binding site. The presence of the CRE site indicates autoregulation of CREB3L2 and/or regulation via other members of the CREB3 family or a variety of bZIP transcription factors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Genetics, University Hospital, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden. ioannis.panagopoulos@med.lu.se
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Panagopoulos
authors.forename: Fredrik
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mertens
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D050976:Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D050976:Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors; C518609:CREB3L2 protein, human