A novel role of Sp1 and Sp3 in the interferon- -mediated suppression of macrophage lipoprotein lipase gene transcription

Hughes, Timothy Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2348-3490, Tengku-Muhammad, T. S., Irvine, S. A. and Ramji, Dipak Purshottam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6419-5578 2002. A novel role of Sp1 and Sp3 in the interferon- -mediated suppression of macrophage lipoprotein lipase gene transcription. Journal of Biological Chemistry 277 (13) , pp. 11097-11106. 10.1074/jbc.M106774200

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Abstract

The regulation of macrophage lipoprotein lipase by cytokines is of potentially crucial importance in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. We have shown previously that macrophage lipoprotein lipase expression is suppressed by interferon-γ (IFN-γ) at the transcriptional level. We investigated the regulatory sequence elements and the transcription factors that are involved in this response. We demonstrated that the −31/+187 sequence contains the minimal IFN-γ-responsive elements. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays showed that the binding of proteins to two regions in the −31/+187 sequence was reduced dramatically when the cells were exposed to IFN-γ. Both competition electrophoretic mobility shift assays and antibody supershift assays showed that the interacting proteins were composed of Sp1 and Sp3. Mutations of the Sp1/Sp3-binding sites in the minimal IFN-γ-responsive elements abolished the IFN-γ-mediated suppression of promoter activity, whereas multimers of the sequence were able to impart the response to a heterologous promoter. Western blot analysis showed that IFN-γ reduced the steady state levels of Sp3 protein. In contrast, the cytokine decreased the DNA binding activity of Sp1 without affecting the protein levels. These studies therefore reveal a novel mechanism for IFN-γ-mediated regulation of macrophage gene transcription.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Publisher:	American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
ISSN:	0021-9258
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2022 08:48
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/63446

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