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Title: | Characterization of the human sialidase Neu4 gene promoter | Authors: | Seyrantepe, Volkan Delman, Murat |
Keywords: | Sialidases Protein-DNA interaction Transcription factors |
Publisher: | TÜBİTAK - Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu | Abstract: | There are 4 different sialidases that have been described in humans: lysosomal (Neu1), cytoplasmic (Neu2), plasma membrane (Neu3), and lysosomal/mitochondrial (Neu4). Previously, we have shown that Neu4 has a broad substrate specificity and is active against glyco-conjugates, including GM2 ganglioside, at the acidic pH of 3.2. An overexpression of Neu4 in transfected neuroglia cells from a Tay-Sachs patient shows a clearance of accumulated GM2, indicating the biological importance of Neu4. In this paper, we aimed to characterize a minimal promoter region of the human Neu4 gene in order to understand the molecular mechanism regulating its expression. We cloned 7 different DNA fragments from the human Neu4 promoter region into luciferase expression vectors for a reporter assay and also performed an electrophoretic mobility shift assay to demonstrate the binding of transcription factors. We demonstrated that -187 bp upstream of the Neu4 gene is a minimal promoter region for controlling transcription from the human Neu4 gene. The electrophoretic mobility shift assay showed that the minimal promoter region recruits a c-myc transcription factor, which might be responsible for regulation of Neu4 gene transcription. The data we obtained might be useful to discover small molecules, which control selective high expression of the human Neu4 gene, resulting in the normal morphological phenotype in the lysosomes of Tay-Sachs patients. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/11147/10328 https://search.trdizin.gov.tr/yayin/detay/163072 https://doi.org/10.3906/biy-1401-63 |
ISSN: | 1300-0152 1303-6092 |
Appears in Collections: | Molecular Biology and Genetics / Moleküler Biyoloji ve Genetik Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection TR Dizin İndeksli Yayınlar / TR Dizin Indexed Publications Collection WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection |
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