Publication Date:
1988-07-15
Description:
Although steroid hormone receptors are known to activate gene expression by binding to specific hormone-dependent enhancers, the mechanisms by which steroids inhibit the transcription of specific genes are unknown. It is shown here by gene transfer studies that the same glucocorticoid receptor that activates gene expression can negatively regulate expression of the human glycoprotein hormone alpha-subunit gene. Glucocorticoid inhibition was conferred by a 52-nucleotide region that also contains elements crucial both for adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) responsiveness and for placental-specific expression of this gene and was observed only under conditions in which these elements were functioning as enhancers. Purified glucocorticoid receptor was found to bind to DNA that overlap the cAMP responsive elements sites in this region. It is hypothesized that steroid receptors negatively regulate gene expression by interfering with the activity or binding of other important transcription factors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Akerblom, I E -- Slater, E P -- Beato, M -- Baxter, J D -- Mellon, P L -- R01 HD020377/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 15;241(4863):350-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Regulatory Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2838908" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Cell Line
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Chorionic Gonadotropin/*genetics
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Cyclic AMP/*physiology
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DNA-Binding Proteins/physiology
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Dexamethasone/*pharmacology
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*Enhancer Elements, Genetic
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*Gene Expression Regulation
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Humans
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In Vitro Techniques
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Receptors, Steroid/*physiology
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*Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
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Transcription Factors/physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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