Illegitimate expression of apolipoprotein A-II in Caco-2 cells is due to chromatin organization.
Transcriptional activity of the human apolipoprotein (apo) A-II promoter has been reported in transiently transfected Caco-2 cells, but not in the intestine in vivo. In the present study we established that the transcription of a stably transfected reporter gene under the control of the -911/+29 human apo A-II, decreases with the onset of the differentiation process. This decrease paralleled that of the expression of the endogenous apo A-II gene. The decrease in apo A-II expression is also followed by a marked increase in the expression of the intestine-specific apo A-IV gene, analyzed here as a marker of enterocytic differentiation. Using clonal glucose metabolic variants of Caco-2 cells we have also observed that the lowest levels of apo A-II mRNA are associated with the lowest rates of glucose consumption. The illegitimate apo A-II transcriptional activity observed in Caco-2 cells is linked to the presence of DNase-I hypersensitive sites within the enhancer. This reflects a chromatin organization which allows, in Caco-2 cells as in the liver, the communication between the apo A-II enhancer and the proximal promoter, unlike what is observed in intestinal epithelial cells.[1]References
- Illegitimate expression of apolipoprotein A-II in Caco-2 cells is due to chromatin organization. Le Beyec, J., Ribeiro, A., Schreider, C., Chambaz, J., Rousset, M., Pinçon-Raymond, M., Cardot, P. Exp. Cell Res. (1999) [Pubmed]
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