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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 39, 317-324, Copyright © 1993 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Tissue-specific promoters regulate aromatase cytochrome P450 expression

ER Simpson, MS Mahendroo, GD Means, MW Kilgore, CJ Corbin and CR Mendelson
Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-9051.

In humans, estrogen biosynthesis occurs in several tissue sites, including ovary, placenta, adipose, and brain. Recent work from our laboratory indicates that tissue-specific expression of aromatase cytochrome P450 (P450arom), the enzyme responsible for estrogen biosynthesis, is determined, in part, by the use of tissue-specific promoters. Thus, the expression of P450arom in human ovary appears to utilize a promoter proximal to the translation start site. This promoter is not utilized in placenta; instead, the promoter used to drive aromatase expression in placenta is > or = 40 kb upstream from the translational start site. In addition, a minor promoter used in the expression of a small proportion of placental transcripts is 9 kb upstream from the start of translation. Transcripts from these promoters are also expressed in other fetal tissues, including placenta- related cells such as JEG-3 choriocarcinoma cells and hydatidiform moles and other fetal tissues such as fetal liver. In adipose tissue, on the other hand, expression of P450arom may be achieved by yet another, adipose-specific promoter. The various 5'-untranslated exons unique for expression driven by each of these promoters are spliced into a common intron/exon boundary upstream from the translational start site. This means that the protein expressed in each of the various tissue-specific sites of estrogen biosynthesis is identical.




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