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Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and Medicine, Banting and Best Diabetes Centre, The Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5G 1L5
A single mammalian proglucagon gene is expressed in the brain, islets, and intestinal enteroendocrine cells, which gives rise to a unique profile of proglucagon-derived peptides (PGDPs) in each tissue. The biological importance of glucagon, glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1, and GLP-2 has engendered considerable interest in the factors regulating the synthesis and secretion of the PGDPs in vivo. Although rat proglucagon gene transcription has been extensively studied, the factors important for control of human proglucagon gene expression have not been examined. We now report that, despite conservation of proximal promoter G1-G4 enhancer-like elements, human proglucagon reporter plasmids containing these elements are transcriptionally inactive in islet cell lines. Remarkably, larger human proglucagon promoter fragments, such as the 1604 hGLU-Luc, are expressed in GLUTag enteroendocrine cells but not in islet cell lines. A total of 5775 bases of human proglucagon promoter were required for expression in islet cell lines. Analysis of human proglucagon promoter expression in transgenic mice demonstrated that ~1.6 kb of human proglucagon gene sequences directs expression of a human growth hormone reporter gene to the brain and intestinal enteroendocrine cells but not islet cells in vivo. These findings provide the first evidence demonstrating divergence in the mechanisms utilized for tissue-specific regulation of the human and rodent proglucagon genes.
islets; glucagon-like peptide-1; glucagon-like peptide-2; intestine
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