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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 9, Pages 3292-3307Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.9.3292-3307.2000
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The BETA2 (neuroD) gene is expressed in endocrine cells during pancreas development and is essential for proper islet morphogenesis. The objective of this study is to identify potential upstream regulators of the BETA2 gene during pancreas development. We demonstrated that the expression of neurogenin 3 (ngn3), an islet- and neuron-specific basic-helix-loop-helix transcription factor, partially overlaps that of BETA2 during early mouse development. More importantly, overexpression of ngn3 can induce the ectopic expression of BETA2 in Xenopus embryos and stimulate the endogenous RN,I of BETA2 in endocrine cell lines. Furthermore, overexpression of ngn3 could cause a dose-dependent activation on the 1.0-kb BETA2 promoter in islet-derived cell Lines. Deletion and mutation analyses revealed that two proximal E Lies sequences, E1 and E3, could bind to ngn3-E47 heterodimer and mediate ngn3 activation, Based on these results, we hypothesize that ngn3 is involved in activating the expression of BETA2 at an early stage of islet cell differentiation through the E hoses in the BETA2 promoter.
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