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Competitive inhibition of a set of endoplasmic reticulum protein genes (GRP78, GRP94, and ERp72) retards cell growth and lowers viability after ionophore treatment.

GRP78, a 78-kDa protein localized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), has been implicated in protein processing and stress protection. Its promoter contains a 36-bp region which is conserved among GRP genes across species and has the ability to compete for trans-acting factors mediating GRP gene expression. Integration of about 800 tandem copies of this sequence into the genome of a Chinese hamster ovary cell line (DG44) results in transfectants with the following phenotypes: (i) the induction level of GRP78 by the calcium ionophore A23187 and tunicamycin is reduced 4- and 2-fold, respectively, (ii) the induction levels of two other ER luminal protein genes, GRP94 and ERp72, are simultaneously down-regulated, (iii) the growth rate of these cells is half that of transfectants without the amplified sequence, and (iv) cell viability is decreased by 25-fold after A23187 treatment. These results provide new evidence that ERp72 shares common trans-acting regulatory factors with the GRP genes and that a reduction of this set of ER proteins correlates with lower viability after ionophore treatment.[1]

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