Characterization of the mouse gene for the heavy metal-responsive transcription factor MTF-1
AUTOR(ES)
der Maur, Adrian Auf
FONTE
Cell Stress Society International
RESUMO
MTF-1 is a zinc finger transcription factor that mediates the cellular response to heavy metal stress; its targeted disruption in the mouse leads to liver decay and embryonic lethality at day E14. Recently, we have sequenced the entire MTF-1 gene in the compact genome of the pufferfish Fugu rubripes. Here we have defined the promoter sequences of human and mouse MTF-1 and the genomic structure of the mouse MTF-1 locus. The transcription unit of MTF-1 spans 42 kb (compared to 8.5 kb in Fugu) and is located downstream of the gene for a phosphatase (INPP5P) in mouse, human, and fish. In all of these species, the MTF promoter region has the features of a CpG island. In both mouse and human, the 5′ untranslated region harbors conserved short reading frames of unknown function. RNA mapping experiments revealed that in these two species, MTF-1 mRNA is transcribed from a cluster of multiple initiation sites from a TATA-less promoter without metal-responsive elements. Transcription from endogenous and transfected MTF-1 promoters was not affected by heavy metal load or other stressors, in support of the notion that MTF-1 activity is regulated at the posttranscriptional level. Tissue Northern blots normalized for poly A+ RNA indicate that MTF-1 is expressed at similar levels in all tissues, except in the testes, that contain more than 10-fold higher mRNA levels.
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