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IMMUNITY
Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 159-172Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(01)00167-4
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The interleukin-2 receptor alpha (IL-2R alpha) chain is an essential component of high-affinity IL-2 receptors. Accordingly, lL-2R alpha expression helps to regulate T cell growth and other lymphoid functions. Lineage-restricted and activation-dependent IL-2R alpha transcription is controlled by three upstream positive regulatory regions (PRRs). We now describe an additional IL-2 response element, PRRIV, within intron 1, in humans and mice. PRRIV activity requires GAS motifs that bind Stat5 proteins and additional upstream HMG-I(Y) binding sites. Moreover, IL-2 induces the binding of HMG-I(Y), Stat5a, and Stat5b in vivo to PRRIV and PRRIII, which also functions as an IL-2 response element. Thus, the IL-2 inducibility of the lL-2Ra gene is unexpectedly mediated by two widely separated regulatory Stat5-dependent elements, located both upstream and downstream of the transcription initiation sites.
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