Journal
ONCOGENE
Volume 25, Issue 54, Pages 7192-7200Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1209702
Keywords
butyrate; colon; BAK; apoptosis; Sp1; Sp3
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Butyrate is a key bioactive product of dietary fibre fermentation thought to play a key role in cancer prevention. One contributory mechanism in this role is the regulation of apoptosis by butyrate. As butyrate shows lowlevels of toxicity, the mechanisms by which it triggers or regulates apoptosis are of great interest. We and others have shown that the proapoptotic protein BAK is upregulated by butyrate. We show ere that this observation is conserved across multiple cell lines, that it occurs in all cells in a population and is at the transcriptional level. We have used a promoter-reporter construct to identify the regulatory regions of the BAK promoter and found that much of the transcriptional activity occurs via a single Sp1/Sp3 binding site. We have shown that both Sp1 and Sp3 bind, but upon butyrate treatment Sp1 binding decreases in favour of Sp3 binding. We speculate that this may be an acetylation- mediated event.
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