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Steroid-Responsive Sequences in the Human Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene 1A Promoter

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Wayne V. Vedeckis, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, 533 Bolivar Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112. E-mail: wvedec{at}lsuhsc.edu.

At least three promoters (1A, 1B, and 1C) control the expression of mRNA transcripts for the human glucocorticoid receptor (hGR) protein. An hGR 1A promoter/exon sequence (-218/+269) contains at least 12 deoxyribonuclease (DNase) I footprints that contain bound protein. Whereas four of these footprints (FP6, FP7, FP8, and FP11) contain bound hGR in protein-DNA complexes that are formed, only two (FP7 and FP11) appear to be important for the up-regulation of hGR 1A promoter/exon activity in T-lymphoblasts. Furthermore, the activity of these DNA elements depends upon the promoter context, leading to a redundant and complex regulation of expression of the hGR 1A promoter/exon. FP7 appears to be required for hormonal responsiveness in the absence of upstream sequences (+41/+191), whereas the hormonal responsiveness of FP11 requires a functional, adjacent FP12 DNA sequence. FP12 contains overlapping binding sites for the protooncogene transcription factors c-Myb and c-Ets. It seems likely that binding of either c-Myb or c-Ets to FP12 is necessary for the direct or indirect binding of the hGR to FP11 (a nonconsensus glucocorticoid response element), and the resultant steroid-responsiveness of the hGR 1A promoter/exon sequence. We propose that the identity of the accessory transcription factor bound to FP12 (c-Myb or c-Ets) may determine the nature of regulation (positive or negative) of hGR gene expression by hormone, and that this may be important for hormone-induced apoptosis in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

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