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Protracted Nuclear Export of Glucocorticoid Receptor Limits Its Turnover and Does Not Require the Exportin 1/CRM1-Directed Nuclear Export Pathway

Departments of Biological Sciences (J.L., D.B.D.), Neuroscience (D.B.D.), and Pharmacology (D.B.D.) University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260

Glucocorticoid receptors (GRs) are shuttling proteins, yet they preferentially accumulate within either the cytoplasmic or nuclear compartment when overall rates of nuclear import or export, respectively, are limiting. Hormone binding releases receptors from stable heteromeric complexes that restrict their interactions with soluble nuclear import factors and contribute to their cytoplasmic retention. Although hormone dissociation leads to the rapid release of GRs from chromatin, unliganded nuclear receptors are delayed in their export. We have used a chimeric GR that contains a heterologous, leucine-rich nuclear export signal sequence (NES) to assess the consequences of accelerated receptor nuclear export. Leucine-rich NESs utilize the exportin 1/CRM1-dependent nuclear export pathway, which can be blocked by leptomycin B (LMB). The fact that rapid nuclear export of the NES-GR chimera, but not the protracted export of wild-type GR, is sensitive to LMB, suggests that GR does not require the exportin 1/CRM1 pathway to exit the nucleus. Despite its more rapid export, the NES-GR chimera appears indistinguishable from wild-type GR in its transactivation activity in transiently transfected cells. However, accelerated nuclear export of the NES-GR chimera is associated with an increased rate of hormone-dependent down-regulation. The increase in NES-GR down-regulation is overcome by LMB treatment, thereby confirming the connection between receptor nuclear export and down-regulation. Given the presence of a nuclear recycling pathway for GR, the protracted rate of receptor nuclear export may increase the efficiency of biological responses to secondary hormone challenges by limiting receptor down-regulation and hormone desensitization.

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