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Regulation of tyrosine hydroxylase gene expression by retinoic acid receptor
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Jeong, Hyerhan Kim, Mi-Soo Kim, Sung-Woo Kim, Kwang-Soo Seol, Wongi |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Description | Journal: Journal of Neurochemistry Retinoic acid (RA), a derivative of vitamin A, critically controls brain patterning and neurogenesis during embryogenesis, and is known to regulate morphological differentiation of catecholaminergic neuronal cells. In this study, we investigated whether the retinoic acid receptor (RAR), a transcription factor specifically activated by all-trans-RA, could directly regulate transcription of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), the first and rate-limiting step in the catecholamine biosynthesis pathway. First, treating TH-expressing human neuroblastoma SK-N-BE(2)C cells with all-trans RA resulted in an approximately 1.7-fold increase in endogenous TH mRNA expression, as determined by real-time PCR analysis. Second, when SK-N-BE(2)C cells were transiently co-transfected with the TH promoter-luciferase reporter construct, reporter gene expression was prominently activated by RAR in a ligand-dependent manner. Third, we identified a putative RAR responsive cis-regulatory element at - 1500 to - 1487 bp in the TH upstream promoter region by deletional and site-directed mutational analysis. Finally, we demonstrated that this putative motif directly interacts with RAR protein in a sequence-specific manner by means of an electrophoretic mobility shift assay. Taken together, our results indicate that the TH gene may be a direct downstream target of the RA signaling pathway and that RAR is able to activate TH transcription through interaction with an upstream sequence motif residing at - 1500 to - 1487 bp. |
| Related Links | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-4159.2006.03866.x/pdf |
| Ending Page | 394 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| Starting Page | 386 |
| e-ISSN | 14714159 |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2006.03866.x |
| Journal | Journal of Neurochemistry |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 98 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publisher Date | 2006-07-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Journal of Neurochemistry Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Gene Promoter Gene Transcription Retinoic Acid Receptor Tyrosine Hydroxylase |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
