Billet O, Grimber G, Levrero M, Seye K A, Briand P, Joulin V
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U-380, Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, Paris, France.
J Virol. 1995 Sep;69(9):5912-6. doi: 10.1128/JVI.69.9.5912-5916.1995.
The contribution of the hepatitis B virus enhancers I and II in the regulation of the activity of the core and the X promoters was assessed in transgenic mice. Surprisingly, despite the presence of heterologous promoters linked 5' of the X gene, the transgene expression is mostly due to core promoter (Cp) activity present in the X coding sequence. Moreover, the restriction of Cp activity to hepatic tissue required the combined action of both enhancers I and II, whereas the proximity of these two enhancers was insufficient to confer tissue specificity on Xp activity. Furthermore, the liver-specific activity of the Cp was developmentally regulated in an enhancer I-independent manner.
在转基因小鼠中评估了乙型肝炎病毒增强子I和II对核心启动子和X启动子活性调节的贡献。令人惊讶的是,尽管在X基因的5'端连接了异源启动子,但转基因表达主要归因于X编码序列中存在的核心启动子(Cp)活性。此外,将Cp活性限制在肝组织需要增强子I和II的共同作用,而这两个增强子的接近度不足以赋予Xp活性组织特异性。此外,Cp的肝脏特异性活性以不依赖增强子I的方式受到发育调控。