Abstract
The human glutathione transferase (GST, EC 2.5.1.18) alpha class locus comprises several genes and pseudogenes. Genomic DNA encoding several human alpha-class-related genes and pseudogenes was cloned and characterized. Three distinct but highly similar 5'-flanking regions of GST alpha genes as well as a series of 5'-deletions were investigated for promoter activity by fusion to the luciferase reporter gene. Transient transfection of these luciferase constructs into human hepatoblastoma, kidney carcinoma, nephroblastoma or bladder carcinoma cells revealed that the promoters are active and contain both positive and negative regulatory regions that behave in a cell-type specific fashion. The 150 bp proximal promoter regions of the three sequences retained the same relative activities as the full length promoters. Two of them were equally active, whereas the third one showed only 20% of the activity of the two stronger promoters. Site-directed mutagenesis indicated that a conspicuous insertion of three nucleotides (TTT) in the weak promoter is not responsible for the different activities.
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