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Center for Research on Reproduction and Women’s Health (H.H., L.K.C., L.C., J.F.S.) and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (M.D.S.), University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, and the Wistar Institute (S.L.B.), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Jerome F. Strauss, III, M.D., Ph.D., Center for Research on Reproduction and Women’s Health, 1354 Biomedical Research Building, 421 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104. E-mail: jfs3{at}mail.med.upenn.edu.
We investigated the binding of transcription factors and histone modifications associated with expression of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) gene in cultured MA-10 Leydig cells and in granulosa cells isolated from mouse periovulatory follicles before and after in vivo human chorionic gonadotropin administration. Quantitative chromatin immunoprecipitation assays were employed to prove association of specific transcription factors (GATA-4, steroidogenic factor 1/adrenal-4 binding protein, CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein ß, cAMP response element binding protein/cAMP response element modulator) and a coactivator (cAMP response element binding protein-binding protein) with the promoter, to define patterns of binding to test hypotheses regarding interactions among these factors, and to correlate changes in histone modification at the StAR locus with transcription. Although each of the transcription factors bound to the StAR proximal promoter, we observed cell-specific binding patterns for individual factors. From these findings we infer that associations among some of the factors can be more complex than can be explained by simple models of stable protein-protein interactions. Histone modifications were also found to exhibit cell-specific, temporal and spatial differences across the StAR locus. In MA-10 cells, these modifications included increased acetylation of histone H3, increased dimethylation of lysine 4 on histone H3 in exonic/intronic sequences (a modification that marks transcriptionally permissive chromatin), and reduced dimethylation of lysine 9 on histone H3 (a modification linked with gene silencing). In mouse granulosa cells, we observed no change in histone H3 or H4 acetylation, but a rapid loss of the dimethyl K9 histone H3 mark. Our findings demonstrate that increased StAR transcription can occur in the context of different patterns of transcription factor binding and histone modification.
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