Rv. Gopalkrishnan et al., GENOMIC STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENTAL EXPRESSION OF THE MOUSE-CELL CYCLE REGULATORY TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DP1, Oncogene, 13(12), 1996, pp. 2671-2680
The E2F/DP family of transcription factors play an important role in t
he control of cell cycle progression. By direct regulatory interaction
s with the retinoblastoma family of proteins, they integrate extracell
ular growth promoting signals impinging on the cyclin and cyclin depen
dent kinase complex during the G(1) phase, with cell cycle progression
. This is accomplished by direct transcriptional activation of genes r
equired for nucleotide biosynthesis and DNA replication in the S phase
, In addition, these transcription factors also play a role in the con
trol of genes involved in regulating G(1) and S phase progression incl
uding, autoregulatory control, as in the case of E2F1 itself, In this
report, we describe the characterisation of the genomic locus encoding
DP1, a member of this family, The DP1 gene has a TATA-less promoter a
nd transcription initiates at multiple sites. Using transient transfec
tion assays we have delineated sequences in the upstream region which
have promoter or enhancer activity. The DP1 gene was localised to mous
e chromosome 8 by metaphase chromosome analysis, We describe a dynamic
pattern of DP1 expression using in situ hybridisation on cryostat sec
tions of mouse embryos at various stages of development and a variable
level of expression by Northern blot analysis of RNA from various adu
lt tissues.