Serio, Laura (2011) Human aldolase C: gene transcriptional regulation and protein functional role. [Tesi di dottorato] (Unpublished)

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Item Type: Tesi di dottorato
Resource language: English
Title: Human aldolase C: gene transcriptional regulation and protein functional role
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Serio, Laura
serio@ceinge.unina.it
Date: 1 February 2011
Number of Pages: 126
Institution: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Istituzioni (extra): CEINGE  Biotecnologie Avanzate
Department: Biochimica e biotecnologie mediche
Scuola di dottorato: SEMM – European School of Molecular Medicine
Dottorato: PhD in Molecular Medicine (Molecular Oncology or Human Genetics)
Ciclo di dottorato: 22
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Salvatore, Francesco
salvator@unina.it
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Salvatore, Francesco
salvator@unina.it
Ruoppolo, Margherita
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Tolan, Dean Richard
tolan@bu.edu
Date: 1 February 2011
Number of Pages: 126
Keywords: Aldolase C, NGF, USF1, knockout
Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: Area 05 - Scienze biologiche > BIO/11 - Biologia molecolare
Area 05 - Scienze biologiche > BIO/10 - Biochimica
Additional information: Ciclo IV/XXII, Curriculum Human Genetics
Date Deposited: 16 Feb 2011 13:23
Last Modified: 12 Jan 2015 12:14
URI: http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/8449
DOI: 10.6092/UNINA/FEDOA/8449

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Aldolase C is the brain-specific aldolase isoenzyme. In the human brain, aldolase C messenger and protein are expressed in a stripe-like pattern in the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum, in the inferior olives and in the Goll and Burdach nuclei of the posterior horn in the spinal cord. Notwithstanding numerous studies have been conducted on aldolase C transcriptional regulation, promoter regions governing brain- and cell-specific expression in human are not yet precisely known. We analysed transcriptional regulation of human aldolase C gene through in vitro and in vivo systems. We previously demonstrated that cAMP increased human aldolase C gene expression in PC12 cells through NGFI-B binding to element D in the distal promoter region of the gene. Here we demonstrate that NGF up-regulates human aldolase C gene expression in PC12 cells. We identified the element E in the distal promoter region as responsive to NGF treatment and demonstrated that USF1 binds to this region thus mediating transcriptional up-regulation. We also analyzed the transcriptional regulation of the human aldolase C gene using transgenic mice as in vivo model. We found that the construct pAldC2500-LacZ, containing the cis-elements A, B, C, D and E in the promoter region, was able to direct specific, high levels AldC/LacZ hybrid messenger expression in the brain of transgenic mice, as well as stripe-like expression in the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum. Construct pAldC1500-LacZ, containing elements A, B and C in the proximal promoter region, plus element D of the distal region, was able to direct low levels brain-specific AldC/LacZ and also the stripe-like expression in the Purkinje cell layer. Here we analysed three new transgenic mice lines carrying constructs containing different deleted promoter regions of human aldolase C gene fused to LacZ reporter gene, in order to further point out the role of distal and proximal regions in governing brain-specific and stripe-like expression in vivo. Our results indicate that proximal region contains all the elements required for low-levels, stripe-like expression of aldolase C in the cerebellar Purkinje cell layer; the distal region is responsible for high-levels, stripe-like expression in the cerebellum and in distinct brain areas. The second part of this thesis focuses on the functional role(s) of aldolase C protein. To improve our knowledge on the canonical glycolytic role of aldolase C, linking isozyme structure with function, we produced recombinant aldolases by swapping Isozymes Specific Residues (ISRs) from aldolase A to C and viceversa and we analysed their kinetic properties. Finally, to shed light on the putative additional functions we have long intended aldolase C exert, we started a project aimed to the production of a conditional aldolase C knockout mouse.

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