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The zinc finger repressor, ZBP‐89, recruits histone deacetylase 1 to repress vimentin gene expression
Author(s) -
Wu Yongzhong,
Zhang Xueping,
Salmon Morgan,
Zehner Zendra E.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
genes to cells
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1365-2443
pISSN - 1356-9597
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2007.01104.x
Subject(s) - vimentin , biology , chromatin immunoprecipitation , repressor , histone deacetylase , hdac1 , microbiology and biotechnology , transcription factor , sap30 , regulation of gene expression , hdac11 , promoter , hdac4 , histone , gene expression , gene , genetics , immunohistochemistry , immunology
Vimentin, a member of the intermediate filament (IF) protein family, exhibits a complex pattern of tissue‐ and developmental‐specific expression. Although vimentin is widely expressed in the embryo, its expression becomes restricted during terminal differentiation. Moreover, it is often expressed in tissue culture cells despite their embryological origin and is a marker for the metastatic tumor cell. Previously, the vimentin promoter has been shown to contain several positive‐ and negative‐acting cis ‐elements. The negative elements bind the transcription factor ZBP‐89. Interestingly, ZBP‐89 can be either an activator or a repressor of gene expression. For instance, ZBP‐89 has been shown to activate p21 waf1/cip1 expression by recruiting p300 to the p21 promoter. Here, we have investigated the mechanism of ZBP‐89 repression. The histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor TSA enhances vimentin gene expression requiring the proximal promoter region including GC‐box 1, a known Sp1/Sp3 binding site. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assays document an increase in the acetylation status of histone H3 on the endogenous vimentin gene concomitant with TSA treatment. However, EMSAs, DNA precipitation, co‐immunoprecipitation and ChIP data show that it is not Sp1, but rather ZBP‐89, which recruits HDAC1. From these studies we conclude that ZBP‐89 functions as a repressor by recruiting HDAC1 to the vimentin promoter.