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JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 52, Issue 2, Pages 172-178Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1007/s10038-006-0099-9
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glucocorticoid; granzyme A; leukemia cells; promoter; GRE
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Glucocorticoids exert diverse physiological functions through transcriptional regulation of genes including granzyme A (GZMA). GZMA is one of the apoptotic effectors localized in cytotoxic T lymphocytes and is considered to mediate glucocorticoid-induced apoptosis of human leukemia 697 cells. In the present study, we identified a novel 5' variant transcript of GZMA in dexamethasone (DEX)-treated 697 cells. We designated this novel transcript as GZMA beta. The transcription of GZMA beta starts at 290 bp downstream of the first intronic glucocorticoid response element (GRE). Chromatin immunoprecipitation assay showed that glucocorticoid receptor (GR) binds to the intronic GRE in a DEX-dependent manner. Luciferase assay and RT-PCR also showed that DEX induces GZMA beta transcription mediated by GR binding to the intronic GRE. Our results show that there exist at least two transcripts in human GZMA, whose expression is differentially regulated by glucocorticoid.
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