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Volume 16, Number 16, Issue of August 15, 1996 pp. 5026-5036
Copyright ©1996 Society for Neuroscience

Two Alternative Promoters Direct Neuron-Specific Expression of the Rat Microtubule-Associated Protein 1B Gene

Received April 10, 1996; revised May 31, 1996; accepted June 3, 1996.

Dong Liu and Itzhak Fischer

Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19129

Microtubule-associated protein 1B (MAP1B) is a major constituent of the neuronal cytoskeleton that is expressed at high levels during early brain development and plays a role in axonal growth and neuronal plasticity. Previous studies suggested that the regulation of its gene expression is primarily at the transcriptional level. Thus, the characterization of the promoter region should help to define regulatory elements that control neuron-specific and developmental expression of the MAP1B gene. We have isolated genomic clones containing up to 11 kb of the upstream region of the rat MAP1B gene, sequenced ~1.8 kb upstream from the translation start codon, and identified several consensus sequences. These sequences include a consensus element common to several neuronal genes, a TCC repeat, a cAMP response element, and two TATA boxes that were 134 nucleotides apart from each other. S1 nuclease and RNase protection assays identified two corresponding groups of transcription initiation sites that were used selectively in distinct regions of the nervous system and during different stages of development. Transient transfection assays with neuronal and non-neuronal cell lines demonstrated that each TATA sequence and its corresponding adjacent region could independently direct neuron-specific expression of a reporter gene. Furthermore, the transcription of the reporter gene was initiated from the same sites as those of the MAP1B gene in vivo. These results suggest that two alternative and overlapping promoters, one inducible and the other constitutive, regulate the temporal and tissue-specific expression of the rat MAP1B gene.

Key words: gene expression; alternative promoters; MAP1B; transcription; TATA box; transient transfection; cAMP-response element

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