Journal: Scientific Reports
Article Title: NF-E2-related factor 1 suppresses the expression of a spermine oxidase and the production of highly reactive acrolein
doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-96388-7
Figure Lengend Snippet: NRF1 directly binds to Smox genomic locus to suppress the expression. ( A ) Putative NRF1-binding sites around the Smox genomic region are predicted from the ChIP-seq data for MAFK, NRF1, and NRF2. ChIP-seq profiles of MAFK from Raw 264.7 cells and ES cells, NRF1 from MEF cells, NRF2 from Macrophages obtained from the Peak Browser of ChIP-Atlas, http://chip-atlas.org . Significant peaks that contain ARE consensus sequence are depicted as horizontal black bars and designed site 1, site 2, site 3, and site 4. Smox gene is constructed by seven parts of exon indicated with black and intron indicated with gray in Fig. A. Start codon in present in Exon 3. ( B ) The ARE sequences from predicted NRF1-binding sites indicated in panel A are aligned. Nucleotides that are conserved or similar between site 1, site 2, site 3, and site 4 are indicated as white letters on a black background or black letters on a gray background, respectively. ( C ) ChIP-qPCR experiment performed with an anti-NRF1 antibody. Specific primer sets were employed in qPCR from predicted DNA to detect site 1, site 2, site 3, site 4. Txs , genomic region in the third intron of Txs was used as a negative control. Analysis of each of the four groups of mice (n = 6). One of the triplicates of experiments is displayed, and results are expressed as means ± SEM. The statistical significance of results, compared with values of Cont, was calculated using one-way ANOVA with Dunnett’s test. * , significant change, P = 0.05 to 0.01; ** , P = 0.01 to 0.001. ( D ) Schematic illustration of reporter constructs used in panels E. ( E ) Luciferase reporter gene assay to measure Smox transactivation in Hepa1c1c7 transfected shLacZ (open bars) or Hepa1c1c7 transfected shNrf1 (filled bars) cells. These cells were transfected with the SMOX reporter constructs depicted in panel E, and firefly luciferase activity was determined the after 48 h recovery. Data were standardized with Renilla luciferase activity.
Article Snippet: Small interfering RNA (siRNA), which targets the mouse Smox was obtained from Thermo Fisher Scientific, and its sequence is shown in Supplementary Table .
Techniques: Expressing, Binding Assay, ChIP-sequencing, Sequencing, Construct, ChIP-qPCR, Negative Control, Luciferase, Reporter Gene Assay, Transfection, Activity Assay