Figure 2

Trans-activation of the p21 promoter by Tax and Sp1 is additive. A, HeLa/18 × 21-EGFP cells were transfected with 1 μg of p21Δ1-Luc either alone or in combination with increasing amounts (1, 2, or 3 μg) of an Sp1 expression plasmid, Flag-Sp1. Luciferase activity was measured and quantified as in Fig. 1A. B, HeLa cells were transfected with 1 μg p21Δ1-Luc and 3 μg pBC12-Tax without or with increasing amounts of the Flag-Sp1 plasmid. The total amount of transfected DNA in each well was kept at 7 μg. C, HeLa cells were transfected with 1 μg each of the p21Δ1-Luc and the Flag-Sp1 plasmid without or with 2, 4, 6 μg of pBC12-Tax plasmid. The total amount of transfected DNA in each well was kept constant at 8 μg by the addition of an empty vector plasmid. The fold trans-activation of each effector is plotted as above.