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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 276: G728-G736, 1999;
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Vol. 276, Issue 3, G728-G736, March 1999

Hepatocyte nuclear factor-4 regulates intestinal expression of the guanylin/heat-stable toxin receptor

E. Scott Swenson, Elizabeth A. Mann, M. Lynn Jump, and Ralph A. Giannella

Division of Digestive Diseases, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267

We have investigated the regulation of gene transcription in the intestine using the guanylyl cyclase C (GCC) gene as a model. GCC is expressed in crypts and villi in the small intestine and in crypts and surface epithelium of the colon. DNase I footprint, electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA), transient transfection assays, and mutagenesis experiments demonstrated that GCC transcription is regulated by a critical hepatocyte nuclear factor-4 (HNF-4) binding site between bp -46 and -29 and that bp -38 to -36 were essential for binding. Binding of HNF-4 to the GCC promoter was confirmed by competition EMSA and by supershift EMSA. In Caco-2 and T84 cells, which express both GCC and HNF-4, the activity of GCC promoter and/or luciferase reporter plasmids containing 128 or 1973 bp of 5'-flanking sequence was dependent on the HNF-4 binding site in the proximal promoter. In COLO-DM cells, which express neither GCC nor HNF-4, cotransfection of GCC promoter/luciferase reporter plasmids with an HNF-4 expression vector resulted in 23-fold stimulation of the GCC promoter. Mutation of the HNF-4 binding site abolished this transactivation. Transfection of COLO-DM cells with the HNF-4 expression vector stimulated transcription of the endogenous GCC gene as well. These results indicate that HNF-4 is a key regulator of GCC expression in the intestine.

Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin; gene transcription


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