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Divisions of 1 Developmental Biology and 2 Pediatric Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229
Adenosine deaminase (ADA) is expressed at high levels in the epithelium of proximal small intestine. Transgenic mice were used to characterize the regulatory region governing this activation. A duodenum-specific enhancer is located in intron 2 of the human ADA gene at the central site among a cluster of seven DNase I-hypersensitive sites present in duodenal DNA. Flanking DNA, including the remaining hypersensitive sites, is required for consistent high-level enhancer function. The enhancer activates expression in a pattern identical to endogenous ADA along both the anterior-posterior axis of the small intestine and the crypt-villus differentiation axis of the intestinal epithelium. Timing of activation by the central enhancer mimics endogenous mouse ADA activation, occurring at 2-3 wk of age. However, two upstream DNA segments, one proximal and one distal, collaborate to change enhancer activation to a perinatal time point. Studies with duodenal nuclear extracts identified five distinct DNase I footprints within the enhancer. Protected regions encompass six putative binding sites for the transcription factor PDX-1, as well as proposed CDX, hepatocyte nuclear factor-4, and GATA-type sites.
transgenic mice; PDX-1; temporal regulation; crypt-villus axis; cephalocaudal axis; DNase I footprinting
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