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BLOOD
Volume 100, Issue 10, Pages 3536-3544Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood.V100.10.3536
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CD43 is an abundant, heavily glycosylated molecule expressed specifically on the surface of leukocytes and platelets. When leukocytes are at rest, CD43 acts to prevent both homotypic and heterotypic Interactions. However, during leukocyte activation CD43 expression is repressed, facilitating the intercellular contact required for chemotaxis, phagocytosis, aggregation, adhesion to endothelium, and transendothelial migration. Consequently, CD43 repression plays a vital role both in Innate and acquired immunity. Here we report that a dramatic down-regulation of CD43 mRNA levels occurs during activation of the leukocytic cell line K562. This repression coincides with repression of the transcriptional activity of the CD43 gene promoter. We have determined that heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K (hnRNP-K) and Puralpha act together to mediate repression of the CD43 promoter during K562 activation. The hnRNP-K molecule and Pura bind single-stranded DNA. Therefore, exposure of single-stranded structures within the CD43 promoter probably plays a major role in effecting CD43 repression.
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