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MUCOSAL BIOLOGY

Intestinal alkaline phosphatase gene expression is activated by ZBP-89

¹Gastrointestinal Unit and Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and ²Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Submitted 24 August 2005 ; accepted in final form 26 December 2005

Intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP) is an enterocyte differentiation marker that functions to limit fat absorption. Zinc finger binding protein-89 (ZBP-89) is a Kruppel-type transcription factor that appears to promote a differentiated phenotype in the intestinal epithelium. The purpose of this study was to investigate the regulation of IAP gene expression by ZBP-89. RT-PCR, quantitative real-time RT-PCR, Western blot analyses, and reporter assays were used to determine the regulation of IAP by ZBP-89 in HT-29 and Caco-2 colon cancer cells. ZBP-89 knockdown was achieved by specific short interfering (si)RNA. EMSA and chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) were performed to examine the binding of ZBP-89 to the IAP promoter. The results of RT-PCR, quantitative real-time PCR, and Western blot analyses showed that ZBP-89 was expressed at low levels in Caco-2 and HT-29 cells, whereas IAP was minimally expressed and absent in these cells, respectively. Transfection with ZBP-89 expression plamid increased IAP mRNA and protein levels in both cell lines, whereas knockdown of endogenous ZBP-89 by siRNA reduced basal levels of IAP gene expression in Caco-2 cells. IAP-luciferase reporter assays, EMSA, and ChIP established that ZBP-89 activated the IAP gene through a response element (ZBP-89 response element: 5'-CCTCCTCCC-3') located between –1018 and –1010 bp upstream of the AUG start codon. We conclude that ZBP-89 is a direct transcriptional activator of the enterocyte differentiation marker IAP. These findings are consistent with the role that this transcription factor is thought to play as a tumor suppressor and suggests its possible function in the physiology of fat absorption.

carcinogenesis; development; enterocyte differentiation; eukaryotic promoter; transient transfection

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