Active cis-elements of PCNA Promoter in HeLa, HepG2, L-02 and MCF-7 Cell Lines

Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) is an auxiliary factor of DNA polymerase delta and epsilon and functions in DNA replication and repair. Using PCR methods, 17 sites within the human PCNA promoter from 60 to 538 were subjected to a 8 bp substitution mutagenesis. Wild type promoter and each mutated promoters were inserted into luciferase expression vector pGL2-Basic. These nonmutated and mutated PCNA promoters were assayed by transient transfection of the plasmids into HeLa, HepG2, L-02 and MCF-7 cell line, respectively. It was found that several sites were common cis acting elements and several sites were cell-specific cis acting elements. Data were further presented using in vitro transcription assay with HeLa and HepG2 nuclear extract.