Dynamics of the metal-dependent transcription factor complex in vivo at the mouse metallothionein-I promoter.

Nucleic Acids Res

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mail Stop 3030, University of Kansas Medical Center, 39th and Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160-7421, USA.

Published: December 2003

The in vivo association of transcription factors with the metallothionein-I promoter was examined using chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assays. The results demonstrated that c-fos is rapidly recruited along with the metal response element-binding transcription factor-1 (MTF-1) to this promoter in response to zinc or cadmium, and that this recruitment is reversed in the visceral yolk sac by a zinc-deficient diet in vivo, and in cultured cells after lowering the zinc concentration in the medium or during prolonged zinc exposure. In contrast, the interactions of c-jun, USF-1, USF-2 and Sp1 with this promoter are metal-independent. Studies of knockout cells revealed that the recruitment of c-fos to the MT-I promoter requires MTF-1, but that c-fos is not essential for recruitment of MTF-1 and metal-induction of MT-I gene expression. Studies of Hepa cells stably-transfected with reporter genes driven by the MT-I promoter suggested two in vivo binding sites for USF-1 and -2. In contrast, Sp1 was apparently associated with a single binding site (upstream of -153 bp). In addition, maximal recruitment of c-fos by metals required sequences and/or other proteins that interact upstream of -153 bp. In summary, these studies extend our understanding of the complexity and dynamics of the transcription factor complex that forms at the MT-I promoter in vivo in response to metals.

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