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The Journal of Immunology, 2002, 169: 6664-6667.
Copyright © 2002 by The American Association of Immunologists


Cutting Edge

Cutting Edge: Distal Regulatory Elements Are Required to Achieve Selective Expression of IFN-{gamma} in Th1/Tc1 Effector Cells1

Mohammed Soutto*, Weisong Zhou* and Thomas M. Aune2,*,{dagger}

* Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, and {dagger} Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232

Using a transgenic approach, we analyzed the contribution of introns located within the IFN-{gamma} gene and distal regulatory regions to IFN-{gamma} gene expression. Intron 1 and 3 from the IFN-{gamma} gene displayed strong enhancer activity. This activity appeared to be dependent upon integration into the genome but resulted in a loss of Th1 selectivity. We also found that distal regulatory elements are not required for high level expression of the human IFN-{gamma} gene, but rather for cell lineage-specific expression. An 8.6-kb human IFN-{gamma} transgene was sufficient to yield high level expression but a 191-kb IFN-{gamma} transgene with ~90 kb of flanking 5' and 3' sequence was necessary to achieve both high level and Th1 selective expression of human IFN-{gamma}.




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