Fig. 3.
Recombinant Sp1 protein bound the core promoter to form the same DNA-protein complexes as nuclear extracts from K562 cells or from K562 cells induced with phorbol dibutyrate. Gel mobility shift experiments were performed using 32P-end–labeled core promoter (bp −30 to −92) and either recombinant Sp1 protein (at the indicated footprinting units [fu]) or nuclear extracts from uninduced and induced K562 cells. A footprinting unit is defined as the amount of protein required to yield a complete footprint on a fragment of the SV40 early promoter. Two DNA-protein complexes are indicated by arrows.