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Bedalov, A. et al.

Regulation of the alpha 1(I) collagen promoter in vascular smooth muscle cells. Comparison with other alpha 1(I) collagen-producing cells in transgenic animals and cultured cells.

We have previously reported that the expression of the ColCAT3.6 transgene containing 3.5 kilobases (kb) of alpha 1(I) collagen (COL1A1) promoter sequence fused to the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) reporter gene paralleled the expression of the endogenous gene in several connective tissues. We report here that the activity of the reporter gene in aorta from 7-day-old transgenic mice is 10-64-fold lower than in tendon or bone, whereas the endogenous gene is highly expressed in all three tissues. In contrast, the COL1A1 minigene containing 2.3 kb of upstream sequence, the first five exon/intron units, the last six exon/intron units, and 2 kb of 3'-flanking sequence showed high CAT activity in aorta. These results suggest that cis sequences found in ColCAT3.6 mediate high levels of COL1A1 expression in bone and tendon, but not in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC), whereas sequences located within the minigene, but not found in ColCAT3.6, mediate VSMC-specific expression. Analysis of promoter activity in cultured cells derived from transgenic tissues further suggests the presence of VSMC-specific regulatory domains. Transient transfection studies, however, failed to shows differential regulation. These differences stress the importance of not relying exclusively on transient transfection data when mapping tissue-specific regulatory domains.[1]

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Regulation of the alpha 1(I) collagen promoter in vascular smooth muscle cells. Comparison with other alpha 1(I) collagen-producing cells in transgenic animals and cultured cells. Bedalov, A., Breault, D.T., Sokolov, B.P., Lichtler, A.C., Bedalov, I., Clark, S.H., Mack, K., Khillan, J.S., Woody, C.O., Kream, B.E. J. Biol. Chem. (1994) [Pubmed]

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