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Phosphorylated Cyclic-AMP-Response Element-Binding Protein and Thyroid Hormone Receptor Have Independent Response Elements in the Rat Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone Promoter: An Analysis in Hypothalamic Cells

2009; Karger Publishers; Volume: 91; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1159/000228833

1423-0194

M. Y. Díaz‐Gallardo, Antonieta Cote-Vélez, Alfonso Carreón‐Rodríguez, Jean‐Louis Charli, Patricia Joseph‐Bravo,

Reproductive System and Pregnancy

<i>Background:</i> Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) from the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) controls the activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis. TRH is expressed in other hypothalamic nuclei but is downregulated by 3,3′,5-<i>L</i>-triiodothyronine (T₃) exclusively in the PVN. Thyroid hormone receptors (TRs) bind TRH promoter at Site-4 (–59/–52), also proposed to bind phosphorylated cAMP response element-binding protein (pCREB). However, nuclear extracts from 8Br-cAMP-stimulated hypothalamic cells showed no binding to Site-4 and instead to cAMP response element (CRE)-2 (–101/–94). <i>Methods:</i> We characterized, by DNA footprinting and chromatin immunoprecipitation, the sites in the rat (–242/+34) TRH promoter that bind to nuclear factors of hypothalamic primary cultures incubated with 8Br-cAMP and/or T₃. <i>Results:</i> In primary cultures of fetal hypothalamic cells, TRH mRNA levels rapidly diminished with 10 n<i>M</i> T₃ while they increased by 1 m<i>M</i> 8Br-cAMP (± T₃). Site-4 was protected from DNase I digestion with nuclear extracts from T₃-incubated cells but not from controls or from those incubated with 8Br-cAMP, which protected CRE-2; T₃ + 8Br-cAMP coincubation caused no interference. The region protected by nuclear extracts from cAMP-stimulated cells included sequences adjacent to CRE-2-containing response elements of the SP/Krüppel family. A TRβ2 antibody immunoprecipitated chromatin containing Site-4 but not CRE-2, from cells incubated with T₃. A pCREB antibody immunoprecipitated CRE-2 containing chromatin in controls and more in 8Br-cAMP-stimulated cells but none when cells were incubated only with T₃. Recruitment of the 2 transcription factors was preserved in cells simultaneously exposed to 8Br-cAMP and T₃. <i>Discussion: </i>These results show that pCREB binds to a response element in the TRH promoter (CRE-2) that is independent of Site-4 where TRβ2 is bound; pCREB and TR do not present mutual interference on their binding sites.