酵母ADH2—SUC2融合启动子的构建及其对基因表达的调控

将ＡＤＨ２基因的ＵＡＳ与带有不同长度缺失上游区的ＳＵＣ３基因融合,构建成４种具有不同融合启动子的ＳＵＣ２基因的表达质粒ＹＲＤ１１０１．ＹＦＤ１１０△９．ＹＦＤ１１０△１７、ＹＦＤ１１０△１１。将这些质粒及对照表达质粒ＹＦＤ２６△１．ＹＦＤ２５转化酵母菌Ｙ３３,在阻遏与去阻遏培养条件下,对各种转化子所产生的蔗糖酶进行了活性测定和组分分析。结果表明：在葡萄糖去阻遏生长条件下,ＹＦＤ１１０△１的启动子组合中ＵＡＳｓｕｃ２和ＵＡＳＡＤＨ２对ＳＵＣ２基因的表达有协同激活作用。在阻遏条件下Ｙ３３／ＹＦＤ１１０△１与Ｙ３３／ＹＦＤ１１０△９、Ｙ３３／ＹＦＤ２６△１、Ｙ３３／ＹＦＤ２５一样,均表达很低的糖基化蔗糖酶,３种去阻遏培养条件比较说明,在低糖培养基中对糖基化蔗糖酶表达的去阻遏效果最佳     

Upstream regulatory elements of murine alpha 4-interferon gene confer inducibility and cell type-restricted expression

We have identified and functionally characterized DNA sequences that are required for the inducible and cell-restricted expression of the murine alpha 4-interferon gene. Hybrid plasmids in which the alpha 4 promoter region or its 5' deletions were inserted upstream of the CAT gene were constructed, and the expression of these hybrid genes was studied in mouse L-cells both in permanent and transient assays with comparable results. Inducible expression was not affected by deletions up to -109; however, when the deletion was extended to -96, inducibility by Newcastle disease virus was abolished; however, this hybrid plasmid was expressed constitutively. Further deletion to -88 did not permit either constitutive or inducible expression. Insertion of the 35-base pair-long sequence (-109 to -75 base pairs) from the alpha 4 promoter region 5' of the minimal alpha 4 or human immunodeficiency virus promoter region, conferred inducibility to these two inactive promoters. The 5' deleted hybrids or plasmids containing the inducible element were induced only at low levels in transfected NIH/3T3 cells that do not express endogenous alpha 4 gene efficiently, indicating that the inducible region also determines the cell-specific expression. A tandem repeat of AGTGAA, which is present in the -109 to -88 region of alpha 4 in two copies, showed both basal levels of expression and inducibility in L-cells, while its analogue AATGAA was highly inducible but was not expressed constitutively. The inducibility of the synthetic hexamer repeats did not show cell type-restricted expression, suggesting that their response does not fully reflect the range of expression observed for the inducible region and the endogenous alpha genes.