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J Virol
1987 Dec 01;6112:3710-20. doi: 10.1128/JVI.61.12.3710-3720.1987.
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Fixation of the unmethylated or the 5'-CCGG-3' methylated adenovirus late E2A promoter-cat gene construct in the genome of hamster cells: gene expression and stability of methylation patterns.
Müller U
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Doerfler W
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The late E2A promoter of adenovirus type 2 (Ad2) DNA can be inactivated by in vitro methylation of three 5'-CCGG-3' sequences at positions +23, +5, and -215 relative to the cap site in this promoter. This inactivation has been documented in transient expression experiments both in Xenopus laevis oocytes and in mammalian cells (K.-D. Langner, L. Vardimon, D. Renz, and W. Doerfler, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 81:2950-2954, 1984; K.-D. Langner, U. Weyer, and W. Doerfler, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83:1598-1602, 1986). In the present study, in vitro-methylated or unmethylated promoter-gene assemblies were permanently fixed by integration in the hamster genome. In individually established cell lines, the degree of promoter methylation was correlated to gene activity. The pAd2E2AL-CAT construct, in which the late E2A promoter controls expression of the procaryotic chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (cat) gene, was fixed in BHK21 hamster cells by cotransfection with and selection for the pSV2-neo construct (P. J. Southern and P. Berg, J. Mol. Appl. Genet. 1:327-341, 1982) in which the early simian virus 40 promoter controls the gene for neomycin phosphotransferase. The pAd2E2AL-CAT construct was transfected in the unmethylated or in the 5'-CCGG-3' methylated form. The pSV2-neo plasmid was cotransfected in the unmethylated form. The stability of in vitro-imposed methylation patterns and cat gene expression were followed and correlated in a number of established cell lines which contained the constructs integrated in a non-rearranged configuration. The foreign DNA did not persist in the episomal state but was integrated, frequently in multiple tandems of the plasmid DNA. Among 19 cell lines established after transfecting the unmethylated pAd2E2AL-CAT construct, the late E2A promoter remained unmethylated (examined in 10 cell lines), and the cat gene was expressed in 18 cell lines. On the other hand, among 14 cell lines which were generated by transfection with the methylated construct, 7 cell lines did not express the cat gene, and the three 5'-CCGG-3' sequences in the late E2A promoter remained almost completely methylated. In five cell lines, the E2A promoter sequences were partly demethylated and the cat gene was expressed at low levels. Last, in two cell lines, demethylations were found to be extensive and strong cat expression was observed. It remained a question of considerable interest what factors determined the stability of methylation patterns that had been preimposed by in vitro methylation on specific sequences in a promoter, after this promoter was fixed by integration in the mammalian genome.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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