TATA ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN IS IMPORTANT TO EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR-DEPENDENT INDUCTION OF H2B HISTONE GENE-EXPRESSION IN PRIMARY HEPATOCYTES FROM RAT
K. Lim et al., TATA ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN IS IMPORTANT TO EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR-DEPENDENT INDUCTION OF H2B HISTONE GENE-EXPRESSION IN PRIMARY HEPATOCYTES FROM RAT, Biochemistry and molecular biology international, 45(3), 1998, pp. 575-582
Epidermal growth factor (EGF) is a potent mitogen for rat hepatocytes
and mammalian histone synthesis is functionally and temporally coupled
to DNA replication. To gain an insight on the role of EGF in the regu
lation of H2B histone gene expression in primary hepatocyte cultures,
the binding patterns of nuclear proteins to various elements in the H2
B histone gene upstream region have been investigated. EGF induced H2B
histone mRNA with maximal stimulation reached at 36 hours. The induct
ion of H2B histone mRNA was dependent on the concentration of EGF and
almost reduced by actinomycin-D pretreatment. In DNase I footprinting
analysis, one nuclear factor (TATA element-binding protein, TBP) bound
at -20 bp (TATA element) in either the absence or presence of EGF. On
e DNA-protein complex was formed by DNA mobility shift assay when TATA
element was incubated with nuclear extract prepared from EGF-free hep
atocytes, and the amount of TBP was increased after EGF treatment. The
se results suggest that TBP may be correlated with transcriptional reg
ulation of H2B histone gene by EGF in primary hepatocytes.