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Published on: June 28, 2018
Expression of PACT is regulated by Sp1 transcription factor
Stephen Fasciano1, Amanda Kaufman, Rekha C Patel
1Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, 700 Sumter Street, Columbia, SC 29208, United States.
Abstract:
PACT is a stress-modulated, cellular activator of interferon (IFN)-induced double-stranded (ds) RNA-activated protein kinase (PKR) and is an important regulator of PKR-dependent signaling pathways. The research presented here is aimed at understanding the regulation of PACT expression in mammalian cells. PACT is expressed ubiquitously in different cell types at varying abundance. We have characterized the sequence elements in PACT promoter region that are required for its expression. Using deletion analysis of the promoter we have identified the minimal basal promoter of PACT to be within 101 nucleotides upstream of its transcription start site. Further mutational analyses within this region, followed by electrophoretic mobility shift analyses (EMSAs) and chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChiP) analysis have shown that Specificity protein 1 (Sp1) is the major transcription factor responsible for PACT promoter activity.
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