Molecular Endocrinology, Vol 7, 528-542, Copyright © 1993 by Endocrine Society

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Inhibition of mouse GATA-1 function by the glucocorticoid receptor: possible mechanism of steroid inhibition of erythroleukemia cell differentiation [published erratum appears in Mol Endocrinol 1993 Jun;7(6):786]

TJ Chang, BM Scher, S Waxman and W Scher
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Graduate School of Biological Sciences, City University of New York, New York 10029.

Treatment of mouse erythroleukemia (MEL) cells with hexamethylene bisacetamide induces a program of erythrodifferentiation, as judged by an increase in the synthesis of globins and other erythroid-specific products. This induction can be inhibited by glucocorticoids, e.g. dexamethasone. All globin and other erythroid-specific genes tested contain GATA response elements (GATA-RE) and can be transactivated by GATA-1, a transcription factor. GATA-1 is highly expressed in erythroid cells, including MEL cells. We noted a glucocorticoid receptor (GR) response element motif near a GATA-RE motif in the promoter region of the mouse beta-major and beta-minor globin genes and about 130 bases away from a GATA-RE in the alpha 1-globin gene promoter and, therefore, investigated the possibility that the dexamethasone-induced inhibition of induced MEL cell differentiation may involve effects of the GR on GATA-1 activity. Evidence obtained from transfection assays and DNA electrophoretic mobility shift assays indicates that the GR binds GATA- 1 and interferes with its function before any interaction with DNA, but that the presence of a glucocorticoid response element near a GATA-RE augments the GR effect. The N-terminal 106-amino acid domain of the GR was found to be essential for the effect, possibly by binding to GATA- 1. Since GATA-1 is autoregulatory, i.e. it has been shown by others to bind to its own promoter and up-regulate its own transcription, the finding that activated GR can interfere with GATA-1 function may provide an explanation for the inhibition by glucocorticoids of the entire program of erythroid differentiation in MEL cells. That is, by interfering with GATA-1 function, the GR inhibits not only the expression of erythroid structural genes, but may also inhibit the expression of a primary erythroid regulatory gene, GATA-1. It was also shown that the GATA-RE in each of the beta-globin promoters responds to mouse GATA-1 in a functional transfection assay.

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