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Attenuation of estrogen receptor α-mediated transcription through estrogen-stimulated recruitment of a negative elongation factor
被引:95
作者:
Aiyar, SE
Sun, JL
Blair, AL
Moskaluk, CA
Lu, YZ
Ye, QN
Yamaguchi, Y
Mukherjee, A
Ren, DM
Handa, H
Li, R
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机构:
[1] Univ Virginia, Sch Med, Dept Biochem & Mol Genet, Charlottesville, VA 22908 USA
[2] Univ Virginia, Sch Med, Dept Pathol, Charlottesville, VA 22908 USA
[3] Tokyo Inst Technol, Grad Sch Biosci & Biotechnol, Yokohama, Kanagawa 2268501, Japan
[4] Fudan Univ, Sch Life Sci, Genet Inst, State Key Lab Genet Engn, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China
关键词:
nuclear receptor;
transcriptional repression;
COBRA1;
NELF;
RNAPII;
estrogen;
D O I:
10.1101/gad.1214104
中图分类号:
Q2 [细胞生物学];
学科分类号:
071009 ;
090102 ;
摘要:
Estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha) signaling is paramount for normal mammary gland development and function and the repression of breast cancer. ERalpha, function in gene regulation is mediated by a number of coactivators and corepressors, most of which are known to modify chromatin structure and/or influence the assembly of the regulatory complexes at the level of transcription initiation. Here we describe a novel mechanism of attenuating the ERalpha activity. We show that cofactor of BRCA1 (COBRA1), an integral subunit of the human negative elongation factor (NELF), directly binds to ERalpha and represses ERalpha-mediated transcription. Reduction of the endogenous NELF proteins in breast cancer cells using small interfering RNA results in elevated ERalpha-mediated transcription and enhanced cell proliferation. Chromatin immunoprecipitation reveals that recruitment of COBRA1 and the other NELF subunits to endogenous ERalpha-responsive promoters is greatly stimulated upon estrogen treatment. Interestingly, COBRA1 does not affect the estrogen-dependent assembly of transcription regulatory complexes at the ERalpha-regulated promoters. Rather, it causes RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) to pause at the promoter-proximal region, which is consistent with its in vitro biochemical activity. Therefore, our in vivo work defines the first corepressor of nuclear receptors that modulates ERalpha-dependent gene expression by stalling RNAPII. We suggest that this new level of regulation may be important to control the duration and magnitude of a rapid and reversible hormonal response.
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页码:2134 / 2146
页数:13
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