The Journal of Immunology, Vol 158, Issue 12 5833-5840, Copyright © 1997 by American Association of Immunologists

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An octamer element functions as a regulatory element in the differentiation-responsive CD11c integrin gene promoter: OCT-2 inducibility during myelomonocytic differentiation

C Lopez-Rodriguez, M Zubiaur, J Sancho, A Concha and AL Corbi
Hospital de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain.

The integrin CD11c/CD18 mediates leukocyte adhesion to endothelium and other cell types and is a receptor for LPS, iC3b, and fibrinogen. CD11c expression is restricted to myeloid and activated B cells, is regulated during leukocyte differentiation, and constitutes a diagnostic tool for hairy cell leukemia. Mapping of in vivo DNA-protein interactions in the CD11c proximal promoter revealed three adjacent myeloid-specific interactions, one of which lies on an octamer consensus sequence, ATTT GCAT (Oct185). Oct185 disruption increased the CD11c promoter activity while decreasing its myeloid differentiation responsiveness, indicating that Oct185 contributes to the activity of the CD11c promoter and suggesting that Oct185 is a negative regulatory element whose function changes during myeloid differentiation. Oct185 is recognized by the ubiquitous Oct-1 factor in all cell lineages and by Oct-2 in B lymphoid lineage cells. Unexpectedly, Oct-2 binding to Oct185 was induced de novo upon monocytic differentiation of U937 and HL-60 cells but not during HL-60 granulocytic differentiation, as determined by electrophoretic mobility shift assays and immunochemical studies, and Oct-2 complexes were also observed in cultured adherent monocytes. Western blotting showed that the pattern of Oct-2 isoforms in myeloid cells is similar to that seen in B cells. The Oct-2 up-regulated expression in differentiating myeloid cells and its binding to the Oct185 negative regulatory element suggests its involvement in the differentiation-regulated activity of the CD11c promoter and might represent an important parameter for the myeloid- and B cell-restricted expression of the CD11c/CD18 integrin and other molecules with similar patterns of expression.

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