Intestinal Expression of the Calbindin-D9K Gene in Transgenic Mice (original) (raw)
1998, Journal of Biological Chemistry
The calbindin-D9K gene encodes a vitamin D-induced calcium-binding protein that is expressed as a marker of small intestine differentiation. We have shown that 4580 base pairs of its 5 DNA regulatory region can target reporter transgene expression in the intestine and cause this transgene to respond like the endogenous gene to vitamin D active metabolite and that the homeoprotein Cdx2 is bound to the TATA box in the intestine. We now show that the 4580 base pairs construct confers a differentiated pattern of reporter transgene expression in the intestine and that cooperation between the proximal promoter and a distal element located in an opened chromatin structure is responsible for the intestinal expression and vitamin D responsiveness of the transgene. Gel shift and footprinting assays using duodenal nuclear extracts indicate that this distal element contains a Cdx2-binding site. Finally, a mutation in this distal Cdx2-binding site dramatically decreases intestinal expression in transgenic mice. This report, using an in vivo approach, demonstrates the crucial role of Cdx2 for the transcription of an intestinal gene. * This work was supported by the Association de Recherche contre le Cancer and the Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. The nucleotide sequence(s) reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBank TM /EBI Data Bank with accession number(s) X16635.
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