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Thyroid Hormone Positively Regulates the Enterocyte Differentiation Marker Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase Gene via an Atypical Response Element

Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Richard A. Hodin, M.D., Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Gray-Bigelow 504, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114. E-mail: rhodin{at}partners.org.

Thyroid hormone (T₃) is a critical regulator of intestinal epithelial development and homeostasis, but its mechanism of action within the gut is not well understood. We have examined the molecular mechanisms underlying the T₃ activation of the enterocyte differentiation marker intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP) gene. RT-PCR and Western blotting showed that thyroid hormone receptors TR1 and TRß1 were expressed in human colorectal adenocarcinoma Caco-2 cells. Northern blotting detected expression of two IAP transcripts, which were increased approximately 3-fold in response to T₃. Transient transfection studies with luciferase reporter plasmids carrying various internal and 5' deletion mutations of the IAP promoter localized a putative thyroid hormone response element (TRE) to a region approximately 620 nucleotides upstream (–620) of the ATG start codon. EMSAs using TR1-retinoid X receptor (RXR) on sequential 5' and 3' single nucleotide deletions defined the TRE between –632 and –612 (5'-TTGAACTCAgccTGAGGTTAC-3'). Compared with the consensus TRE, the IAP-TRE is novel in that it contains an everted repeat of two nonamers (not hexamers) separated by three nucleotides. Neither TR1 nor RXR binds to the IAP-TRE; however, TRß1 binds to this TRE with minimal affinity. In the presence of TR and RXR, only the TR-RXR heterodimer binds to the IAP-TRE. Mutagenesis of either nonamer abolishes the biological activity of IAP promoter. We have thus identified a novel response element that appears to mediate the T₃-induced activation of the enterocyte differentiation marker, intestinal alkaline phosphatase.

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Nuclear Receptors:   TRα  |  TRβ  |  RXRα

Ligands:   Thyroid hormone

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