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?2A). Whereas P19 cells transfected with a control vector formed floating aggregates after ATRA treatment, P19 cells transfected with an expression vector of shRNA against CADM1 did not form aggregates but grew as attached http://www.selleck.cn/products/SP600125.html cells to a bacterial plate (Fig.?2B). In the RA-induced neural differentiation, P19 cells treated with ATRA were stained with an antibody against MAP2, a neuron-specific marker (Fig.?2C), and the number of MAP2-positive cells was counted. As shown in Fig.?2D, knockdown of CADM1 dramatically reduced the proportion of MAP2-positive cells from 26% to http://www.selleckchem.com/products/smoothened-agonist-sag-hcl.html gene as a reporter (Fig.?3A). Transient transfection of these constructs into P19 http://www.selleckchem.com/products/epz015666.html cells showed that RA induced a sevenfold increase in the luciferase activity of the reporter construct carrying the CADM1 promoter [nucleotide (nt) ?2004 to ?1] when compared with that without RA treatment. A similar degree of RA-induced luciferase activity was observed in a truncated CADM1 promoter of 356?bp (nt ?356 to ?1). However, luciferase activity induced by RA gradually decreased when the promoter was truncated to shorter fragments of 242, 178 and 112?bp and was finally lost in a fragment of 87?bp (nt ?87 to ?1), indicating that several DNA sequences located downstream of ?356?bp, especially those between ?112 and ?87?bp, are responsible for transactivation by ATRA. The computer analysis of the CADM1 promoter using the MATCH database (http://www.gene-regulation.com/cgi-bin/pub/programs/match) showed that the region between ?112 and ?87?bp contains a single GC box, which has been shown to be recognized by specificity protein-1 (Sp1) family proteins. However, no consensus RAR/RXR-binding sequences were detected within this region or within the 2.0-kb CADM1 promoter. To elucidate the involvement of the Sp1-binding site located between nucleotides ?112 and ?87 in the transactivation of the CADM1 by ATRA, we generated a reporter construct containing triple tandem repeats of the fragment from nucleotide ?112 to ?70, named as Sp1BS-1.