The Journal of Immunology, Vol 154, Issue 11 5675-5683, Copyright © 1995 by American Association of Immunologists

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Overexpression of activation transcriptional factor 1 in lymphomas and in activated lymphocytes

YP Hsueh and MZ Lai
Graduate Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.

cAMP-regulated gene expression always involves a conserved cAMP- responsive element (CRE) present in the promoter of cAMP-inducible genes. Two of the highly related proteins, cyclic AMP-responsive element binding protein (CREB) and activation transcriptional factor 1 (ATF-1), have been shown to activate transcription in response to cAMP by interacting with CRE. However, ATF-1 is a much weaker mediator of cAMP response, and its functional role in vivo remains unclear. Here we report a significant enhancement of ATF-1 expression in most transformed lymphocytes. Little variation in CREB level was observed, however. The activation of normal T lymphocytes induced a transient increase of ATF-1 expression to a level comparable to that of T lymphomas. Activation had no effect on the ATF-1 level of transformed T lymphocytes. The induction of ATF-1 required the costimulation of normal T lymphocytes with TPA and A23187. TPA, Ca2+ ionophore, or cAMP alone did not stimulate ATF-1 expression in normal lymphocytes. Nuclear run-on assay indicates that the increased ATF-1 expression in T cell lymphomas and in activated splenic T lymphocytes was not due to an enhanced transcription. Instead, an increase in ATF-1 mRNA stability was found in these lymphocytes. The regulation of ATF-1 expression through RNA stability in cells of different states suggests that ATF-1 may play an active role in cell growth and differentiation.

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