A conserved distal segment of the mouse CSF-1 receptor promoter is required for maximal expression of a reporter gene in macrophages and osteoclasts of transgenic mice.
Csf1r mRNA in adult mice is expressed in cells of the macrophage lineage, and during development, it is also expressed from a separate promoter in placental trophoblast cells. This mouse trophoblast promoter sequence is conserved across species, but human trophoblasts actually initiate transcription from a separate promoter 20 kb upstream, which is not conserved in rodents. A 7.2-kb fragment of the mouse Csf1r genomic DNA, including the 3.5-kb promoter, the first coding exon and downstream intron, is sufficient to direct reproducible position- and copy number-independent expression of an EGFP reporter in vitro and in vivo. In this study, we have examined the consequence of removal of the 150-bp fragment encompassing the conserved trophoblast promoter region in the context of the 7.2-kb promoter on reporter gene expression in transgenic mice. The deletion ablated expression in the placenta but also abolished expression in multinucleated OCL and reduced expression in macrophages. RT-PCR analyses of Csf1r mRNA revealed that mouse OCL use another promoter within this region, distinct from that used in placental trophoblasts, to generate an alternative 5'UTR.
Ovchinnikov
Dmitry A
DA
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia.
DeBats
Claire E E
CE
Sester
David P
DP
Sweet
Matthew J
MJ
Hume
David A
DA
D020121:5' Untranslated Regions / Q000235:genetics; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000235:genetics; D002469:Cell Separation; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D005260:Female; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D015870:Gene Expression; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D017930:Genes, Reporter; D006801:Humans; D008264:Macrophages / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010010:Osteoclasts / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D011247:Pregnancy; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis; D016186:Receptor, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000235:genetics*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014162:Transfection; D014327:Trophoblasts / Q000378:metabolism
D020121:5' Untranslated Regions; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D016186:Receptor, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor