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Transcriptional Regulation of Human Nanog Gene by OCT4 and SOX2  

Seok, Hyun-Jeong (Dept. of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Chungbuk National University)
Kim, Young-Eun (Dept. of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Chungbuk National University)
Park, Jeong-A (Dept. of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Chungbuk National University)
Lee, Young-Hee (Dept. of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Chungbuk National University)
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Development and Reproduction / v.14, no.2, 2010 , pp. 123-129 More about this Journal
Abstract
Embryonic stem (ES) cells can self-renew maintaining the undifferentiated state. Self-renewal requires many factors such as OCT4, SOX2, and NANOG. It is previously known that OCT4 and SOX2 can bind to NANOG promoter and support Nanog gene expression in mouse ES cells by the detailed studies using the mouse Nanog promoter. Here, we constructed serial deletion mutant promoter-reporter constructs to investigate the human Nanog gene promoter in detail. The highest promoter activity was obtained in the 0.6 kb (-253/+365) promoter-reporter construct which includes the binding sites of OCT4 and SOX2. To further confirm contribution of OCT4 and SOX2 in Nanog gene expression, we introduced site- directed mutation(s) in the OCT4 and/or SOX2 binding sites of the human Nanog promoter 0.6 kb (-253/+365) and checked the influence of the mutation on the promoter activity using human EC cell line NCCIT. Mutation either in OCT4 binding site or SOX2 binding site significantly reduced the activity of Nanog promoter which directly confirmed that OCT4 and SOX2 binding is essential in human Nanog gene expression.
Keywords
Human Nanog gene; Promoter; Regulation; OCT4; SOX2;
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