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Endocrinology, Vol 136, 306-315, Copyright © 1995 by Endocrine Society

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One of three CCArGG box/serum response elements of the beta-actin gene is an insulin-responsive element

JE Onyia, DL Halladay and JL Messina
Department of Physiology, State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse 13210.

The cytoskeletal actins are abundant proteins in mammalian nonmuscle cells. We have previously reported that physiological concentrations of insulin induced beta-actin transcription in rat H4 hepatoma cells. To define whether one or more of the three CCArGG box elements or other elements within the beta-actin gene promoter is an insulin response element, we transfected H4 cells with regions of the human beta-actin gene promoter fused to the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene. A 350-basepair DNA fragment was isolated that mediates both insulin and serum effects. This fragment contains at least two up-stream elements, a CCAAT box and a CCArGG box, and accounts for more than 70% of the basal activity of the beta-actin promoter in H4 cells. There was a small, but significant, stimulatory effect of insulin over maximal serum induction, suggesting a difference in their mechanisms of action. Mutation of the CCAAT box drastically reduced basal expression, with no effect on insulin induction. In contrast, a mutation of the CCArGG element reduced basal expression and completely abolished insulin inducibility. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays suggested that insulin regulated the activity, but not the binding, of a factor(s) that associates with the CCArGG box. These data demonstrate that in H4 cells, insulin induction of beta-actin gene expression was mediated at least in part through one of the three beta-actin CCArGG elements.


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