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Modulation of MLC-2v gene expression by AP-1: Complex regulatory role of Jun in cardiac myocytes

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Hypertrophic stimulation of cardiac myocytes results in rapid induction of a number of transcription factors, including members of the AP-1 family, which is followed by a programmed alteration in the pattern of gene expression. In the ventricular cardiocytes there is re-expression of the fetal atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) gene and upregulation of its myosin light chain-2 (MLC-2v). The mechanism(s) by which the induction of AP-1 is coupled to the promoters of these target genes is largely unknown. In this report, we demonstrate that in transient co-transfection assay, c-Jun inhibited while Jun B stimulated the MLC-2v promoter activity. Mutant c-Jun recombinants, in which the activation domains were deleted, still remained inhibitory, but a specific mutation in the leucine zipper, which changes the alignment of Jun with its dimerization partner, caused a reversal of its effect on the target MLC-2v promoter. Based on these findings, we propose that in chicken cardiac myocytes, the regulation of MLC-2v promoter by Jun may occur via its interaction with other proteins, possibly of the leucine zipper family.

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    Shyamal K. Goswami, Saiyid Shafiq & M.A.Q. Siddiqui

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Goswami, S.K., Shafiq, S. & Siddiqui, M. Modulation of MLC-2v gene expression by AP-1: Complex regulatory role of Jun in cardiac myocytes. Mol Cell Biochem 217, 13–20 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007296330181

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