Functional interactions between an atypical NF-κB site from the rat CYP2B1 promoter and the transcriptional repressor RBP-Jκ/CBF1

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Abstract

The phenobarbital-inducible rat cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2B1 and 2B2 proteins are encoded by homologous genes whose promoters contain a mammalian-apparent long terminal repeat retrotransposon (MaLR). An NF-κB-like site within the MaLR forms multiple protein-DNA complexes with rat liver and HeLa cell nuclear extracts. Using antibody supershift assays, we have identified these complexes as NF-κB and RPB-Jκ/CBF1. Competition assays using a series of single site mutant oligonucleotides reveal that the recognition sites for these two factors overlap. We also show that the CYP2B1/2 NF-κB element, but not the Igκ NF-κB element, can repress transcription in vitro when positioned upstream of the heterologous adenovirus major late core promoter. In addition, RBP-Jκ overexpressed in COS-7 cells repressed expression in vivo from an SV40-luciferase reporter construct that contained the CYP2B1/2 NF-κB element. Finally, we observe similar levels of NF-κB and RBP-Jκ binding activities in nuclear extracts prepared from control and phenobarbital-induced rat livers. The results suggest that RBP-Jκ/CBF1 binds an atypical NF-κB site in the CYP2B1/2 promoters and may help to maintain a low level of expression in the absence of inducer.

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Lee, S. H., Wang, X. L., & DeJong, J. (2000). Functional interactions between an atypical NF-κB site from the rat CYP2B1 promoter and the transcriptional repressor RBP-Jκ/CBF1. Nucleic Acids Research, 28(10), 2091–2098. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/28.10.2091

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