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SP1 regulates a human <i>SNAP‐25</i> gene expression

2007· article· en· W1991613431 on OpenAlexaff
Fang Cai, Bin Chen, Weihui Zhou, Odysseus Zis, Shengchun Liu, Robert A. Holt, William G. Honer, Weihong Song

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Neurochemistry · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicCellular transport and secretion
Canadian institutionsCanada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences CentreUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEnhancerBiologyMolecular biologyReporter geneAP-1 transcription factorGene expressionSp1 transcription factorTranscription factorActivator (genetics)5' flanking regionGeneTransfectionTranscription (linguistics)Regulation of gene expressionElectrophoretic mobility shift assayPromoterGenetics

Abstract

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The synaptosomal-associated protein of 25 kDa (SNAP-25) is a pre-synaptic plasma membrane protein. SNAP-25 plays an important role in synaptic vesicle membrane docking and fusion, which is involved in the regulation of neurotransmitter release. SNAP-25 has been implicated in the pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders including Schizophrenia, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and Alzheimer's disease. We cloned a 1584 bp segment of the 5' flanking region of the human SNAP-25 gene. A series of nested deletions of the 5' flanking region fragment were subcloned into the pGL3-basic luciferase reporter plasmid. N2A cells were transfected with the SNAP-25 promoter constructs and luciferase activity was measured as an indication of promoter activity. We identified a 188 bp fragment containing the transcription initiation site as the minimal region necessary for promoter activity. Several putative cis-acting elements including SP1, hypoxia inducible factor (HIF), cAMP-response element binding protein, T-cell factor/lymphocyte enhancer factor 1 (TCF/LEF1), AP1 and the signal transducer and activator of transcription-6 (STAT6) are found in the 5' flanking region of SNAP-25 gene. Transcriptional activation and gel shift assays showed that the human SNAP-25 gene promoter contains functional SP1 response elements. Over-expression of SP1 increased SNAP-25 gene expression and inhibition of SP1-mediated transcriptional activation reduced SNAP-25 gene expression. These results suggest that SP1 plays an important role in regulation of the human SNAP-25 gene expression.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.007

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.227 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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