The Human Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum Gene ABCC6 is Transcriptionally Regulated by PLAG Family Transcription Factors

Overview

Journal Hum Genet

Specialty Genetics

Date 2008 Oct 14

PMID 18850323

Citations 9

Authors

Marcin Ratajewski

Wim J M Van de Ven

Grzegorz Bartosz

Lukasz Pulaski

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Abstract

Mutations in the ABCC6 gene are known as causative factors of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE), a connective tissue calcification disorder, but the molecular mechanism of pathogenesis or the physiological function of ABCC6 protein is the subject of intense debate. The ABCC6 gene expression is tightly regulated at the transcriptional level and its tissue-specific distribution is consistent with PXE being a metabolic disease caused by failure of ABCC6 function in organs distant from the diseased sites. In an effort to provide clues to its role by elucidating the mechanisms of its regulation, we identified ABCC6 as a target gene for transcriptional induction by PLAG1 and PLAGL1, transcription factors from the PLAG family of cell cycle progression-related DNA-binding proteins. Both these factors are shown to bind to the same single consensus-binding element in the ABCC6 proximal promoter in cell lines of hepatic and renal origin by reporter gene assay, electrophoretic mobility shift assay and chromatin immunoprecipitation. PLAG-mediated ABCC6 transactivation may play an important role in determining the level of tissue-specific expression of this gene. The described mechanism can also find potential application in therapeutic interventions in forms of PXE related to impaired ABCC6 expression.

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