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Query: EC:6.4.1.2 (acetyl-CoA carboxylase)
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Insulin induction of acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) and differentiation of 30A5 preadipocytes into adipocytes requires a brief exposure of the cells to cAMP. Using the techniques of DNase I footprinting, DNA band shift, and analysis of the point and deletion mutations, a region from -113 to -95 has been identified as the site through which cAMP sensitizes the cell for the response to insulin. One sequence-specific DNA-protein complex, b3, is formed in the DNA-mobility shift assay when nuclear extract from 30A5 cells is mixed with the oligonucleotide representing this region. Purified human AP-2 also generates the complex corresponding to b3 with the same ACC PII probe or with the AP-2 consensus sequence probe from SV40 promoter. Substitution of A for G in the sequence GGGGCTGGG abolishes the formation of b3 sequence-specific complex. Stably transfected 30A5 cells with the same mutations in the plasmid no longer respond to insulin in spite of their exposure to cAMP. These results establish that the 21 base pair region in ACC promoter II and the binding of AP-2 protein to this sequence are required for cAMP action. cAMP-dependent protein kinase phosphorylates AP-2 both in vitro and in vivo and the phosphorylation of AP-2 does not affect its binding activity.
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PMID:The site of cAMP action in the insulin induction of gene expression of acetyl-CoA carboxylase is AP-2. 810 69

Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC), the rate-limiting enzyme in the biosynthesis of fatty acids, is induced in the presence of high glucose levels. The ACC gene contains two promoters: promoter I (PI) expression is inducible under lipogenic conditions, while promoter II (PII) expression, even though constitutively expressed in all tissues, is also controlled under various physiological conditions. Examination of the expression pattern of a series of deletion constructs of PII showed that the region from -340 to -249 was essential for ACC induction. In addition, by electrophoretic mobility shift assays, supershift assays, and DNase I footprinting studies, we have detected the binding of the transcription factor Sp1 at the two GC-rich sequences located within the -340 to -249 region of promoter II. Mutations at the GC-rich sequences prevented binding of Sp1, and the induction of the PII promoter was no longer observed. Cotransfection studies, in Drosophila Schneider SL2 cells, with the Sp1 expression vector and PII-CAT constructs, have further confirmed the activation of promoter II by Sp1. In addition, we have identified Sp3, another member of the Sp1 family of transcription factors, as a second factor that can bind to the glucose response elements of PII.
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PMID:Sp1 mediates glucose activation of the acetyl-CoA carboxylase promoter. 857 28