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Laboratory for Immunohistochemistry and Immunopathology, Institute of Pathology, University of Oslo, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
The polymeric IgR (pIgR) mediates transport of dimeric IgA and pentameric IgM across mucosal epithelia, thereby generating secretory Abs. Its expression is up-regulated at the transcriptional level by IL-4 in HT-29 cells. In this study, we demonstrate that IL-4 mediates up-regulation of human pIgR through a 554-bp IL-4-responsive enhancer in intron 1. Mutation of a binding site for STAT-6 within this region abolished IL-4-induced enhancement, while an adjacent putative C/EBP site was dispensable. IL-4 treatment induced binding of STAT6 to the intronic STAT6 site, but cooperation with nearby upstream and downstream DNA elements was required for IL-4 responsiveness. Furthermore, IL-4-mediated increased transcription of the pIgR-derived enhancer, like the endogenous pIgR gene, required de novo protein synthesis. Interestingly, a conditionally active form of STAT6 sufficed to activate a pIgR-derived enhancer in HT-29 cells, but not in Cos-1 cells, suggesting a requirement for cell type-specific factors. Thus, STAT6 activation mediates a delayed transcriptional enhancement of pIgR by induction of a de novo synthesized protein that cooperates with STAT6 itself bound to its cognate DNA element in intron 1. This mechanism may represent a general strategy for how pleiotropic cytokines elicit cell type-specific transcriptional responses.
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