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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 152, Issue 6 2904-2911, Copyright © 1994 by American Association of Immunologists
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F Liao, BK Birshtein, M Busslinger and P Rothman
Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461.
Treatment of murine splenic B lymphocytes and certain B-lineage cell lines with mitogen (LPS) and the lymphokine IL-4 has been shown to induce expression of germ-line epsilon transcripts (l epsilon transcripts) and class switching to the C epsilon gene. Three protein complexes, one of which (complex 3) is constitutively expressed, have been shown to bind to a 179-base pair LPS/IL-4-responsive l epsilon promoter (Rothman, P., S. C. Li, B. Gorham, L. Glimcher, F. W. Alt, and M. Boothby. 1991. Mol. Cell. Biol. 11:5551). Complex 3 is indispensable for this inducible promoter activity. In this report, we have used electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) to demonstrate that the early B cell-specific transcription factor (BSAP) is involved in the formation of complex 3. In addition, BSAP is implicated functionally in l epsilon transcription because a BSAP binding site either from a sea urchin histone promoter (H2A-2.2) or from 5' of murine immunoglobulin S gamma 2a can substitute for the epsilon-associated site (epsilon(foot), as assayed by transient transfection assays of the l epsilon:CAT reporter constructs into the M12.4.1 B cell line. Like the sea urchin histone BSAP site, the complex 3 binding site (epsilon(foot)) functions as an upstream promoter element when assayed in the OVEC vector. These results indicate that BSAP is an essential protein required for LPS/IL- 4 induction of the l epsilon promoter. In addition, experiments showing that a BSAP binding site from 5' of S gamma 2a also functions as an upstream promoter element in OVEC suggest a potential role for BSAP in regulation of the IgG2a isotype.
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