H19 sense and antisense transgenes modify insulinâlike growth factorâII mRNA levels
2000
Wilkin, Françoise | Paquette, Jean | Ledru, Elisabeth | Mamelin, Catherine | Pollak, Michael | Deal, Cheri L.
The oppositelyâimprinted genes insulinâlike growth factorâII (IGF2) and H19, a putative tumor suppressor, often show coordinate, reciprocal regulation and are believed to play a role in carcinogenesis. To explore the possible interactions between these genes, we stably transfected diHepG2 cells with a plasmid containing either the sense or the antisense H19 cDNA sequences and verified their expression by Northern analysis and by RNase protection analysis. Levels of H19, IGF2 and γâactin mRNA were quantified by competitive RTâPCR analysis. Although H19 sense transgene overexpression (nâ=â24 clones) did not decrease the low, basal levels of IGF2 mRNA compared to control cells, levels of IGF2 mRNA were positively correlated with the levels of H19 antisense mRNA (Pâ<â0.0001, nâ=â40 clones). Furthermore, the increase in IGF2 mRNA level was accompanied by an elevation of IGFâII peptide in conditioned media. To see if H19 mRNA had a specific effect on transcription, we also performed transient transfections with reporter gene constructs containing IGF2 promoterâ3 in the presence of sense or antisense H19 cDNA sequences under control of a cytomegalovirus promoter. We show a lower reporter gene activity from reporter gene constructs in the presence of sense H19 cDNA than from those with antisense or neomycin. Our results suggest that H19 participates in the repression of IGF2, at least in part through effects on IGF2 transcription, an effect which may contribute to its action as a tumor suppressor.
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