Specific expression of the human CD4 gene in mature CD4+ CD8- and immature CD4+ CD8+ T cells and in macrophages of transgenic mice.

AUTOR(ES)

Hanna, Z

RESUMO

The CD4 protein plays a critical role in the development and function of the immune system. To gain more insight into the mechanism of expression of the human CD4 gene, we cloned 42.2 kbp of genomic sequences comprising the CD4 gene and its surrounding sequences. Studies with transgenic mice revealed that a 12.6-kbp fragment of the human CD4 gene (comprising 2.6 kbp of 5' sequences upstream of the transcription initiation site, the first two exons and introns, and part of exon 3) contains the sequences required to support the appropriate expression in murine mature CD4+ CD8- T cells and macrophages but not in immature double-positive CD4+ CD8+ T cells. Expression in CD4+ CD8+ T cells was found to require additional regulatory elements present in a T-cell enhancer fragment recently identified for the murine CD4 gene (S. Sawada and D. R. Littman, Mol. Cell. Biol. 11:5506-5515, 1991). These results suggest that expression of CD4 in mature and immature T-cell subsets may be controlled by distinct and independent regulatory elements. Alternatively, specific regulatory elements may control the expression of CD4 at different levels in mature and immature T-cell subsets. Our data also indicate that mouse macrophages contain the regulatory factors necessary to transcribe the human CD4 gene.

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