Fig. 4.
Demonstration of C/EBPβ and GATA-1 binding to the MBP promoter by gel-shift assay. Double-stranded oligonucleotides (lower panel) containing MBP promoter sequence from bp −93 to −58 (probe A), with mutated GATA-consensus site (probe B), mutated C/EBP-consensus site (probe C), and mutated GATA- and C/EBP-consensus sites (probe D) were end-labeled with [γ-32P] ATP and incubated with 1 μg double-stranded poly (dI-dC) in the presence of 1 μg purified maltose-binding protein (MBP)-C/EBPβ fusion protein (lanes 2 and 4 through 7) and 8 μg nuclear proteins from COS7 cells that were transiently transfected with a GATA-1 expression vector (lanes 3 through 7).