Cell cycle regulation of a mouse histone H4 gene requires the H4 promoter.
AUTOR(ES)
Seiler-Tuyns, A
RESUMO
The mouse histone H4 gene, when stably transformed into L cells on the PSV2gpt shuttle vector, is cell cycle regulated in parallel with the endogenous H4 genes. This was determined in exponentially growing pools of transformants fractionated into cell cycle-specific stages by centrifugal elutriation, a method for purifying cells at each stage of the cell cycle without the use of treatments that arrest growth. Linker additions in the 5' noncoding region of the H4 RNA or in the coding region of the gene did not affect the cell cycle-regulated expression of the modified H4 gene even though the overall level of expression was altered. However, replacing the H4 promoter with the human alpha-2 globin promoter, so that the histone transcript produced by the chimeric gene remains essentially unchanged, resulted in the constitutive expression of H4 mRNA during all phases of the cell cycle with no net increase in H4 mRNA levels during the G1-to-S transition. From these results we conclude that all the information necessary for the cell cycle-regulated expression of the H4 gene is contained in the 5.2-kilobase subclone used in these studies with 228 nucleotides of 5'-flanking DNA and that the increase in H4 mRNA during the G1-to-S transition in the cell cycle is mediated by the H4 promoter and not by the increased stability of the H4 RNA.
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