Allelic variation of reporter gene activation by the hras1 minisatellite

Genomics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 429-434

  Green, Marie ^a,b   Krontiris, Theodore G ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0027170003     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1993.1343     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Capon, D. J., Chen, E. Y., Levinson, A. D., Seeburg, P. H., and Goed-del, D. V. (1983). Complete nucleotide sequences of the T24 human bladder carcinoma oncogene and its normal homologue. Nature 302: 33-37.
2. Cohen, J., Walter, M., and Levinson, A. (1987). A repetitive sequence element 3' of the human c-Ha-rasl gene has enhancer activity. J. Cell. Physiol. 5: 75-81.
3. Collart, M., Baeuerle, P., and Vassalli, P. (1990). Regulation of tumor necrosis factor alpha transcription in macrophages: Involvement of four kappa B-like motifs and of constitutive and inducible forms of NF-kappa B. Mol. Cell. Biol. 10: 1498-1506.
4. Copeland, N. G., Zelentz, A. D., and Cooper, G. M. (1979). Transformation of NIH/3T3 mouse cells by DNA of Rous sarcoma virus. Cell 17: 993-1002.
5. Decorte, R., Cuppens, H., Marynen, P., and Cassiman, J. J. (1990). Rapid detection of hypervariable regions by the polymerase chain reaction technique. DNA Cell Biol. 9: 461-469.
6. Gorman, C., Merlino, G., Willingham, M., Pastan, I., and Howard, B. (1982a). The Rous sarcoma virus long terminal repeat is a strong promoter when introduced into a variety of eukaryotic cells by DNA-mediated transfection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sei. USA 79: 6777-6781.
7. Gorman, C. M., Moffat, L. F., and Howard, B. H. (1982b). Recombinant genomes which express chloramphenicol acetyltransferase in mammalian cells. Mol. Cell. Biol. 2: 1044-1051.
8. Hirt, B. (1967). Selective extraction of polyoma DNA from infected mouse cell cultures. J. Mol. Biol. 26: 365-369.
9. Honkawa, H., Masahashi, W., Hashimoto, S., and Gashimoto-Goto, T. (1987). Identification of the principal promoter sequence of the c-H-ras transforming oncogene: Deletion analysis of the 5'-flanking region by focus formation assay. Mol. Cell. Biol. 7: 2933-2940.
10. Kasperczyk, A., Di Martino, N. A., and Krontiris, T. G. (1990). Mini-satellite allele diversification: The origin of rare HRASl alleles. Am. J, Hum. Genet. 47: 854-859.
11. Kasperczyk, A., Mermer, B. A., Parkinson, D. R., Lonergan, J. A., and Krontiris, T. G. (1989). Allele-specific deletion in exon 1 of the HRASl gene. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 45: 689-696.
12. Kiernan, M., Blank, V., Logeât, F., Vandekerckhove, J., Lottspeich, F., Le Bail, O., Kourilsky, P., Baeuerle, P. A., and Israel, A. (1990). The DNA binding subunit of NF-k B is identical to factor KBFl and homologous to the rel oncogene product. Cell 62: 1007-1018.
13. Krontiris, T. G., Devlin, B., Robert, N. J., Karp, D. D., and Risch, N. (1993). An association between cancer risk and mutations in the HRASl minisatellite locus. N. Engl. J. Med., in press.
14. Krontiris, T. G., Di Martino, N. A., Colb, M., Mitcheson, H. D., and Parkinson, D. R. (1986). Human restriction fragment length polymorphisms and cancer risk assessment. J. Cell. Biochem. 30: 319-329.
15. Krontiris, T. G., Di Martino, N. A., Colb, M., and Parkinson, D. R. (1985). Unique allelic restriction fragments of the human Ha-ras locus in leukocyte and tumour DNAs of cancer patients. Nature 3 13: 369-374.
16. Krontiris, T. G., Di Martino, N. A., Mitcheson, H. D., Longeran, J. A., Begg, C., and Parkinson, D. R. (1987). Human hypervariable sequences in risk assessment: Rare Ha-ras alleles in cancer patients. Environ, Health Perspect. 76: 147-153.
17. Lillie, J. W., Loewenstein, P. M., Green, M. R., and Green, M. (1987). Functional domains of adenovirus type 5 El A proteins. Cell 50: 1091-1100.
18. Lillie, J. W., Green, M., and Green, M. R. (1986). An adenovirus El A protein region required for transformation and transcriptional repression. Cell 46: 1043-1051.
19. Lowenthal, J., Ballard, D., Bogerd, H., Bohnlein, E., and Greene, W. (1989). Tumor necrosis factor-alpha activation of the 11-2 receptor-alpha gene involves the induction of k B-specific DNA binding proteins. J. Immunol. 142: 3121-3128.
20. Mac Gregor, G. R., and Caskey, C. T. (1989). Construction of plasmids that express E. coli beta-galactosidase in mammalian cells. Nucleic Acids Res. 17: 2365.
21. Moran, E., Zerler, B., Harrison, T. M., and Mathews, M. B. (1986). Identification of separate domains in the adenovirus El A gene for immortalization activity and the activation of virus early genes. Mol. Cell. Biol. 6: 3470-3480.
22. Osborn, L., Kunkel, S., and Nabel, G. (1989). Tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin-1 stimulate the human immunodeficiency virus enhancer by activation of the nuclear factor k B. Proc. Natl Acad. Sei. USA 86: 2336-2340.
23. Rochette-Egly, C., Fromental, C., and Chambón, P. (1990). General repression of enhanson activity by the adenovirus-2 El A proteins. Genes Dev. 4: 137-150.
24. Rosenthal, N. (1987). Identification of regulatory elements of cloned genes with functional assays. In "Methods in Enzymology: Guide to Molecular Cloning Techniques" (S. Berger and A. Kimmel, Eds.), Vol. 152, pp. 704-720, Academic Press, New York.
25. Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E. F., and Maniatis, T. (1989). "Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual," Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
26. Schneider, J. F., Fisher, F., Coding, C. R., and Jones, N. C. (1987). Mutational analysis of the adenovirus El A gene: The role of transcriptional regulation in transformation. EMBO J. 6: 2053-2060.
27. Sen, R., and Baltimore, D. (1986). Multiple nuclear factors interact with the immunoglobulin enhancer sequences. Cell 46: 705-716.
28. Spandidos, D. A., and Holmes, L. (1987). Transcriptional enhancer activity in the variable tandem repeat DNA sequence downstream of the human Ha-ras-1 gene. FEBS Lett. 218: 41-46.
29. Toshihiko, T., Fink, J., Mandel, G., and Goodman, R. (1987). Identification of a region in the human vasoactive intestinal polypeptide gene responsible for regulation of cyclic AMP. J. Biol. Chem. 262: 8743-8747.
30. Trepicchio, W. L., and Krontiris, T, G. (1992). Members of the rel/NF-k B family of transcriptional regulatory factors bind the HRASl minisatellite DNA sequence. Nucleic Acids Res. 20: 2427-2434.
31. Trepicchio, W. L., and Krontiris, T. G. (1993). IGH minisatellite suppression of USF-binding-site-and E-mediated transcriptional activation of the adenovirus major late promoter. Nucleic Acids Res. 21:977-985.