PMID- 8078070 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19941004 LR - 20190710 IS - 0022-2836 (Print) IS - 0022-2836 (Linking) VI - 242 IP - 1 DP - 1994 Sep 9 TI - The promoter of the H1zero histone gene contains a DNA element bound by retinoic acid receptors. PG - 37-44 AB - Retinoic-acid mediated differentiation of F9 cells is accompanied by an increased transcription of the histone H1zero gene. This increase is an early response after addition of retinoic acid, suggesting a direct effect of the hormone on transcription of the gene. We show now that the promoter of histone H1zero contains a DNA element, localized 531 base-pairs upstream of the cap site, that is composed of a direct repeat of the sequence PuGGTCA separated by eight base-pairs. This element confers retinoic acid responsiveness to a heterologous thymidine kinase promoter in F9 and HeLa cells. Furthermore, the element forms retarded complexes not only with bacterially expressed retinoic acid receptors (RARs) and retinoid X receptors (RXRs), but also with endogenous F9 receptors. Our results suggest therefore that retinoic acid receptors can control the expression of a chromatin structural gene the expression of which is associated with a differentiated phenotype. FAU - Mader, S AU - Mader S AD - Laboratoire de Genetique Moleculaire des Eucaryotes du CNRS, Strasbourg, France. FAU - Thiele, K AU - Thiele K FAU - Breuer, B AU - Breuer B FAU - Alonso, A AU - Alonso A LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - Netherlands TA - J Mol Biol JT - Journal of molecular biology JID - 2985088R RN - 0 (Histones) RN - 0 (Nuclear Proteins) RN - 0 (Oligodeoxyribonucleotides) RN - 0 (Receptors, Retinoic Acid) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Base Sequence MH - Gene Expression Regulation MH - HeLa Cells MH - Histones/*genetics MH - Humans MH - In Vitro Techniques MH - Mice MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Nuclear Proteins/metabolism MH - Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/chemistry MH - *Promoter Regions, Genetic MH - Receptors, Retinoic Acid/*metabolism MH - Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid MH - Transcription, Genetic EDAT- 1994/09/09 00:00 MHDA- 1994/09/09 00:01 CRDT- 1994/09/09 00:00 PHST- 1994/09/09 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1994/09/09 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1994/09/09 00:00 [entrez] AID - S0022283684715555 [pii] AID - 10.1006/jmbi.1994.1555 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Mol Biol. 1994 Sep 9;242(1):37-44. doi: 10.1006/jmbi.1994.1555.