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Turning a Negative into a Positive: Vitamin D Receptor Interactions with the Avian Parathyroid Hormone Response Element

Department of Internal Medicine (N.J.K.) Division of Nephrology, Bone and Mineral Metabolism University of Kentucky Medical Center Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0084
Department of Medicine (S.A., J.R.) Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, New York 10021

1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D₃ [1,25-(OH)₂D₃] negatively regulates expression of the avian PTH (aPTH) gene transcript, and a vitamin D response element (VDRE) near the promoter of the aPTH gene had previously been identified. The present report assessed whether the negative activity imparted by the aPTH VDRE could be converted to a positive transcriptional response through selective mutations introduced into the element. The tested sequences were derived from individual and combined mutations to 2 bp in the 3'-half of the direct repeat element, GGGTCAggaGGGTGT. Cold competition experiments using mutant and wild-type oligonucleotides in the mobility shift assay revealed minor differences in the ability of any of these sequences to compete for binding to a heterodimer complex comprised of recombinant proteins. Ethylation interference footprint analysis for each of the mutants produced unique patterns over the 3'-half-sites that were distinct from the weak, wild-type footprint. Transcriptional outcomes evaluated from a chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter construct utilizing the aPTH promoter found that the individual TA mutant produced an attenuated negative transcriptional response while the GC mutant resulted in a reproducibly weak positive transcriptional outcome. The double mutant, however, yielded a 4-fold increase in transcription, similar to the 7-fold increase observed from an analogous construct using the human osteocalcin VDRE. UV light cross-linking to gapped oligonucleotides assessed the polarity of heterodimer binding to the wild-type and double mutant sequences and was consistent with the vitamin D receptor preferentially binding to the 5'-half of both elements. Finally, DNA affinity chromatography was used to immobilize heterodimer complexes bound to the wild-type and double mutant sequences as bait to identify proteins that may preferentially interact with these DNA-bound heterodimers. This analysis revealed the presence of a p160 protein that specifically interacted with the heterodimer bound to the wild-type VDRE, but was absent from complexes bound to response elements associated with positive transcriptional activity. Thus, the sequence of the individual VDRE appears to play an active role in dictating transcriptional responses that may be mediated by altering the ability of a vitamin D receptor heterodimer to interact with accessory factor proteins.

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