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Transcription of the sodium/myo-inositol cotransporter gene is regulated by multiple tonicity-responsive enhancers spread over 50 kilobase pairs in the 5 '-flanking region

Author(s)
Rim, JSAtta, MGDahl, SCBerry, GTHandler, JSKwon, H. Moo
Issued Date
1998-08
DOI
10.1074/jbc.273.32.20615
URI
https://scholarworks.unist.ac.kr/handle/201301/4908
Fulltext
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0032493754
Citation
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, v.273, no.32, pp.20615 - 20621
Abstract
he sodium/myo-inositol cotransporter is a plasma membrane protein responsible for concentrative cellular accumulation of myo-inositol in a variety of tissues. When cells in kidney and brain are exposed to a hyperosmolar salt condition (hypertonicity) due to the operation of urinary concentration mechanism and pathological conditions, respectively; they survive the stress of hypertonicity by raising the cellular concentration of myo-inositol. Transcription of the sodium/myo-inositol cotransporter gene is markedly stimulated in response to hypertonicity, leading to an increase in the activity of the cotransporter, which in turn drives the osmoprotective accumulation of myo-inositol. To understand the molecular mechanisms by which hypertonicity stimulates transcription, we analyzed the BI-flanking region of the cotransporter gene for cis-acting regulatory sequences. We identified five tonicity-responsive enhancers that are scattered over 50 kilobase pairs. All the enhancers are variations of the same type of enhancer interacting with the transcription factor named tonicity-responsive enhancer binding protein. In vivo methylation experiments demonstrated that exposure of cells to hypertonicity increases the binding of tonicity-responsive enhancer binding protein to the enhancer sites, indicating that all of these enhancers are involved in the transcriptional stimulation. We conclude that the sodium/myo-inositol cotransporter gene is regulated by a large region (similar to 50 kilobase pairs) upstream of the gene.
Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
ISSN
0021-9258

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