Cloning and Characterization of the 5' End and Promoter Region of the Chicken Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase Gene

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Journal Biochem J

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 1996 Mar 1

PMID 8670077

Citations 4

Authors

N Le Fur

R S Powell

C Diot

P Langlois

J Mallard

M Douaire

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Abstract

Acetyl-CoA carboxylase is a rate-limiting enzyme in the biogenesis of long-chain fatty acids. In the present study, the 5' end and flanking region of the acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) gene was analysed in the chicken. A genomic clone was isolated containing the first three exons, the third one containing the ATG codon. Using nuclease-mapping experiments and primer-extension analyses, the transcription-initiation site was located 153 nucleotides upstream of the ATG codon. In contrast with rat ACC gene expression, reverse transcriptase PCR analysis performed on chicken liver mRNA did not reveal alternative splicing in the 5'-untranslated region of these messengers. The promoter region is very G+C rich, and contains no TATA or CAAT boxes. Analysis by transient transfection in a human hepatoma cell line (HepG2) demonstrates that the promoter activity requires the presence of symmetrical sequences located upstream of the GC boxes. Transcription of this gene is found to be controlled by tri-iodothyronine in HepG2 cells, but the sequence responsible for the tri-iodothyronine response is not the consensus tri-iodothyronine-responsive element localized in the promoter. These results bring new insights to the regulation of the chicken ACC gene which differs from that of the rat.

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