STAT1 Is Required for IFN-γ-Mediated Gut-Enriched Krüppel-like Factor Expression

doi:10.1006/excr.2002.5633

Experimental Cell Research

Volume 281, Issue 1, 15 November 2002, Pages 19-27

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Abstract

Gut-enriched Krüppel-like factor (GKLF/KLF4), a member of the Krüppel-like factor family of transcription factors, has recently been shown to be associated with growth arrest in the colonic mucosa. Our laboratory has previously demonstrated that GKLF is one of the down-stream targets of interferon-γ (IFN-γ) in colon cancer cells, but the signaling pathway regulating GKLF expression is not known. In this report, we showed that IFN-γ increased GKLF and interferon regulatory factor-1 mRNA levels in a parallel fashion and these effects were abolished in STAT1 knockout mouse fibroblast cell lines, indicating that STAT1 mediated IFN-γ-stimulated GKLF gene expression. IFN-γ treatment induced phosphorylation of STAT1 and IFN-γ-induced GKLF mRNA expression was attenuated by tyrosine protein kinase inhibitors, suggesting that phosphorylation of STAT1 played an essential role in this process. To further evaluate the effect of STAT1 on GKLF gene expression, a 2622-bp mouse GKLF promoter was isolated from a liver genomic library. In a transient transfection system, IFN-γ treatment increased GKLF promoter activity by 3.5-fold. Sequential deletion and mutation analysis of the GKLF promoter has identified the sequence between −1675 and −1580, a region containing a GAS element, to be essential for IFN-γ function. By electrophoretic mobility gel shift assay, nuclear extracts from IFN-γ-stimulated HT-29 cells were found to bind to the GAS motif on the GKLF promoter and this protein–DNA complex was supershifted by the STAT1 antiserum. These results indicate that IFN-γ-induced GKLF expression required phosphorylated STAT1 and that these effects were mediated, in part, through interaction of STAT1 with the GAS element on the GKLF promoter.

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