Click here to close Hello! We notice that you are using Internet Explorer, which is not supported by Xenbase and may cause the site to display incorrectly. We suggest using a current version of Chrome, FireFox, or Safari.
XB-ART-11235
Mol Cell Biol 2000 May 01;209:3292-307. doi: 10.1128/MCB.20.9.3292-3307.2000.
Show Gene links Show Anatomy links

Regulation of the pancreatic islet-specific gene BETA2 (neuroD) by neurogenin 3.

Huang HP , Liu M , El-Hodiri HM , Chu K , Jamrich M , Tsai MJ .


???displayArticle.abstract???
The BETA2 (neuroD) gene is expressed in endocrine cells during pancreas development and is essential for proper islet morphogenesis. The objective of this study is to identify potential upstream regulators of the BETA2 gene during pancreas development. We demonstrated that the expression of neurogenin 3 (ngn3), an islet- and neuron-specific basic-helix-loop-helix transcription factor, partially overlaps that of BETA2 during early mouse development. More importantly, overexpression of ngn3 can induce the ectopic expression of BETA2 in Xenopus embryos and stimulate the endogenous RNA of BETA2 in endocrine cell lines. Furthermore, overexpression of ngn3 could cause a dose-dependent activation on the 1.0-kb BETA2 promoter in islet-derived cell lines. Deletion and mutation analyses revealed that two proximal E box sequences, E1 and E3, could bind to ngn3-E47 heterodimer and mediate ngn3 activation. Based on these results, we hypothesize that ngn3 is involved in activating the expression of BETA2 at an early stage of islet cell differentiation through the E boxes in the BETA2 promoter.

???displayArticle.pubmedLink??? 10757813
???displayArticle.pmcLink??? PMC85623
???displayArticle.link??? Mol Cell Biol


Species referenced: Xenopus
Genes referenced: neurod1 neurog1 neurog3

References [+] :
Ahlgren, The morphogenesis of the pancreatic mesenchyme is uncoupled from that of the pancreatic epithelium in IPF1/PDX1-deficient mice. 1996, Pubmed