Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9127358 | Gene | 2005 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
WNK1 is one of WNK (With No K=Lysine) protein kinases which comprise a newly described subfamily. Our studies showed that expression of the mouse WNK1 gene was dramatically suppressed in a tumor cell line when its phenotype was altered by suppression of the GD3-synthase gene expression. The mouse WNK1 gene was expressed at a high level at early stage of embryonic brain and its expression decreased as brain developed, similar to the expression pattern of the GD3-synthase gene. To study transcriptional regulation, we cloned a 5â²-flanking 1239-bp fragment of the mouse WNK1 gene. This fragment contains a number of potential consensus binding sites for transcription factors, including Sp1, AP2, CCAAT, Est-1, Oct-1, CNBP, and NFkB, but lacks a TATA box. Primer extension identified multiple putative transcriptional initiation sites, including several sites downstream of the ATG codon. Activities of the promoter fragments were assessed in mouse breast Sa/R-MT cells by transient transfection and the results showed that the promoter elements between â700 and â977 is required for maintaining a high level of promoter activity of the TATA-less mouse WNK1 gene.
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Authors
Guichao Zeng, Luoyi Gao, Tian Xia, Yihua Gu, Robert K. Yu,