Classical Genotropic Versus Kinase-initiated Regulation of Gene Transcription by the Estrogen Receptor Alpha.
From: Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Center for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Diseases, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, 72205, USA.
Endocrinology
- Publish Date: Apr 2006
- ISSN: 0013-7227
- Volume: 147
- Issue: 4
- Pages: 1986-96
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Almeida M, Han L, O'brien C A, et al. Classical Genotropic Versus Kinase-initiated Regulation of Gene Transcription by the Estrogen Receptor Alpha.. Endocrinology Apr 2006;147:1986-96
Abstract
Elucidation of kinase-initiated routes by which the estrogen receptors alpha and beta (ERalpha and ERbeta) control gene transcription, along with evidence of distinct biologic outcomes in response to ligands that can selectively activate nongenotropic signaling of the ERs or the androgen receptor, suggest that the ERs control a range of genes wider than that regulated by their direct association with DNA. To ascertain the extent and significance of nongenotropic ER-mediated transcription, we employed transduced HeLa cells expressing wild-type ERalpha or the ligand binding domain of ERalpha localized to the cell membrane (E-Mem), the OB-6 osteoblastic cell line, MCF-7 breast carcinoma cells and uteri from mice treated with 17beta-estradiol (E(2)), or the nongenotropic signaling activator 4-estren-3alpha,17beta-diol (estren). E(2) and estren induced ERK1/2 and Akt phosphorylation in ERalpha or E-Mem stably transfected HeLa cells; however, the phosphorylation kinetics differed between the two cell lines. In all four models, nongenotropic ER actions regulated a population of genes distinct from those regulated by genotropic ER actions. Specifically, the expression of Wnt2, Frizzled10, Egr-1, and c-Fos was strongly up-regulated in E-Mem-containing HeLa cells treated with E(2) or estren, or in ERalpha-containing HeLa cells treated with estren. Up-regulation of Frizzled10 by estren was reproduced in MCF-7 cells. Egr-1 was up-regulated by both estren and E(2); but complement 3, only by E(2) in the uteri. Estren had no effect on complement 3, cathepsin D, progesterone receptor, bcl-2, and cyclin D1 in MCF-7 cells, whereas E(2) up-regulated all these estrogen response element or activating protein-1-containing genes. These results support an extensive divergence in gene expression depending on the mode of ER activation.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, Binding Sites, Bone and Bones, Estradiol, Estrenes, Estrogen Receptor alpha, Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases, Female, Frizzled Receptors, Gene Expression Regulation, Hela Cells, Humans, Mice, Phosphorylation, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt, Receptors, Neurotransmitter, Transcription, Genetic, Wnt2 Protein
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