Lb. Hersh et al., COMPARISON OF THE PROMOTER REGION OF THE HUMAN AND PORCINE CHOLINE-ACETYLTRANSFERASE GENES - LOCALIZATION OF AN IMPORTANT ENHANCER REGION, Journal of neurochemistry, 61(1), 1993, pp. 306-314
Genomic clones of human and porcine choline acetyltransferase were obt
ained by screening genomic libraries with synthetic oligonucleotides.
The human and porcine genes exhibit significant conservation of both t
heir intron/exon structure and the nucleotide sequence in their 5' fla
nking regions. However, the two genes differ in several respects, incl
uding the absence of a ''TATA'' box in the human gene and differences
in the position of the methionine start codon. Analysis of the promote
r region of the two genes has led to the localization of an enhancer e
lement that appears necessary for efficient transcription of the gene.