Doyle C, Ford P J, Ponath P D, Spies T, Strominger J L
Division of Tumor Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1990 Jun;87(12):4590-4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.87.12.4590.
The invariant chain protein is intracellularly associated with class II major histocompatibility proteins. In many cases, the expression of these molecules appears to be regulated in a similar manner. Contained within the promoter of the invariant chain gene are sequences (X and I gamma 1) that are similar to the X and Y box elements of class II genes, suggesting that these sequences might be involved in its regulation. DNase I footprinting reveals additional cis-acting elements (I gamma 2 and I gamma 3) that contain sequence similarities to NF-kappa B and/or H2TF1/KBF1 recognition sequences. A series of fusion constructs with the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene were used to analyze the role of these sequences (I gamma 1, I gamma 2, I gamma 3, and X and Y elements) in both normal and mutant B lymphocytes. These data suggest the likelihood of multiple X box proteins in B cells, which can act as both negative and positive regulatory factors.
恒定链蛋白在细胞内与II类主要组织相容性蛋白相关联。在许多情况下,这些分子的表达似乎以类似的方式受到调节。恒定链基因的启动子中包含与II类基因的X和Y盒元件相似的序列(X和Iγ1),这表明这些序列可能参与其调节。DNase I足迹分析揭示了另外的顺式作用元件(Iγ2和Iγ3),它们包含与NF-κB和/或H2TF1/KBF1识别序列相似的序列。一系列带有氯霉素乙酰转移酶报告基因的融合构建体被用于分析这些序列(Iγ1、Iγ2、Iγ3以及X和Y元件)在正常和突变B淋巴细胞中的作用。这些数据表明B细胞中存在多种X盒蛋白的可能性,它们可作为负性和正性调节因子发挥作用。