La. Cooker et al., GENOMIC STRUCTURE AND PROMOTER ACTIVITY OF THE HUMAN TESTIS LACTATE-DEHYDROGENASE GENE, Biology of reproduction, 48(6), 1993, pp. 1309-1319
The structure of the gene encoding the human testis-specific isozyme o
f lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) has been characterized and a regulatory
region identified by promoter activity. The single-copy ldh-c gene has
two alternative 5' noncoding exons and seven coding exons comprising
an approximately 40-kb locus. The gene does not contain the canonical
TATA or CAAT promoter sequences, and ribonuclease protection experimen
ts suggest multiple transcription start sites. In the present study an
immortalized murine germ cell line was used to detect promoter activi
ty driven by 5' sequence of human ldh-c with lacZ as the reporter gene
. Reporter gene activity was nondetectable when promoter constructs we
re transfected into nongerminal cells.