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Maureen T Travers1, Marie Cambot, Helen T Kennedy
1Hannah Research Institute, Ayr KA6 5HL, UK.
Abstract:
The mammalian gene (ACACA) encoding acetyl-CoA carboxylase-alpha, a key regulatory enzyme of fatty acid synthesis, is transcribed from multiple promoters. We have delineated the 5' boundary of ACACA in four species (human, mouse, rat, and ovine). The 5' end of ACACA is located within a 600- to 700-bp CpG island encompassing a bidirectional promoter shared with the divergently oriented TADA2L, which encodes a component of chromatin-modifying complexes. In mouse and rat, this promoter, now referred to as Acaca PI, is located 43 kb upstream of the previously known regulatory regions. The shared promoter coregulates transcripts for TADA2L and ACACA in an asymmetric fashion in human and mouse tissues. A higher concentration of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) within the intergenic region in brain compared to liver of mouse reflects the greater abundance of the two transcripts in brain. The concentration of Pol II tracking downstream, which is lower than at the promoter, is not significantly different in either gene in the two tissues and does not reflect the 10- and >200-fold greater abundance of Tada2l and Acaca PI transcripts, respectively, in brain. Thus, regulation of clearance of Pol II from the promoter and the rate of elongation may therefore be determinants of the asymmetric expression of these transcripts.
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