期刊
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
卷 240, 期 2, 页码 531-547出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2001.0507
关键词
cysteine-rich protein; CRP1; Csrp1; smooth muscle; vascular; CArG; SRF
资金
- NCI NIH HHS [CA42014-14] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL60591] Funding Source: Medline
Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) are heterogeneous with respect to their contractile, synthetic, and proliferative properties, though the regulatory factors responsible for their phenotypic diversity remain largely unknown. To further our understanding of smooth muscle gene regulation, we characterized the cis-regulatory elements of the murine cysteine-rich protein I gene (CRP1/Csrp1). CRP1 is expressed in all muscle cell types during embryogenesis and predominates in vascular and visceral SMCs in the adult. We identified a 5-kb enhancer within the CRP1 gene that is sufficient to drive expression in arterial but not venous or visceral SMCs in transgenic mice. This enhancer also exhibits region-specific activity in the outflow tract of the heart and the somites. Within the 5-kb CRP1 enhancer, we found a single CArG box that binds serum response factor (SRF), and by mutational analysis, demonstrate that the activity of the enhancer is dependent on this CArG element. Our findings provide further evidence for the existence of distinct regulatory programs within SMCs and suggest a role for SRF in the activation of the CRP1 gene. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science.
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