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J Virol. 1990 July; 64(7): 3199-3206

The mammalian upstream element factor recognizes two sites in the adenovirus type 2 IVa2-major late promoter intergenic region and stimulates both promoters.

Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes du CNRS, Institut de Chimie Biologique, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France.

ABSTRACT

The adenovirus type 2 major late upstream element factor (UEF) recognizes two similar elements that lie between the major late promoter (MLP) and IVa2 promoter cap sites (the previously characterized MLP-UE from nucleotides -49 to -67 and the IVa2-UE from nucleotides -98 to -122). DNase I footprinting and gel retention assays showed that the UEF has a lower affinity for the IVa2-UE than for the MLP-UE. In vitro transcription experiments demonstrated first that the IVa2 promoter, which lacks a consensus TATA box, may work, as does the MLP, in the absence of its proximal upstream element and second that the IVa2-UE stimulated IVa2 transcription two- to threefold, as MLP-UE did for the MLP. In addition, we demonstrated that the more distal upstream element has a weak stimulatory effect on transcription of both promoters.