TY - JOUR
T1 - Characterization of distinct Stat5b binding sites that mediate growth hormone-stimulated IGF-I gene transcription
AU - Chia, Dennis J.
AU - Ono, Mitsuru
AU - Woelfle, Joachim
AU - Schlesinger-Massart, Mylynda
AU - Jiang, Honglin
AU - Rotwein, Peter
PY - 2006/2/10
Y1 - 2006/2/10
N2 - A key agent in the anabolic actions of growth hormone (GH) is insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), a 70-amino acid secreted protein with direct effects on somatic growth and tissue maintenance and repair. GH rapidly and potently stimulates IGF-I gene transcription by mechanisms independent of new protein synthesis, and recent studies have linked the transcription factor Stat5b to a regulatory network connecting the activated GH receptor on the cell membrane to the IGF-I gene in the nucleus. Here we analyze two distinct conserved GH response elements in the rat IGF-I locus that contain paired Stat5b sites. Each response element binds Stat5b in vivo in a GH-dependent way, as assessed by chromatin immunoprecipitation assays, and consists of one high affinity and one lower affinity Stat5b site, as determined by both qualitative and quantitative protein-DNA binding studies. In biochemical reconstitution experiments, both response elements are able to mediate GH-stimulated and Stat5b-dependent transcription when fused to a reporter gene containing either the major IGF-I promoter or aminimal neutral promoter, although the paired Stat5b sites located in the second IGF-I intron were more than twice as effective as the response element that mapped ∼73 kb 5′ to the IGF-I exon 1. Taken together, our results define the initial molecular architecture of a complicated GH-regulated transcriptional pathway, and suggest that apparently redundant hormone response elements provide amechanism for amplifying GH action at a physiologically important target gene.
AB - A key agent in the anabolic actions of growth hormone (GH) is insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), a 70-amino acid secreted protein with direct effects on somatic growth and tissue maintenance and repair. GH rapidly and potently stimulates IGF-I gene transcription by mechanisms independent of new protein synthesis, and recent studies have linked the transcription factor Stat5b to a regulatory network connecting the activated GH receptor on the cell membrane to the IGF-I gene in the nucleus. Here we analyze two distinct conserved GH response elements in the rat IGF-I locus that contain paired Stat5b sites. Each response element binds Stat5b in vivo in a GH-dependent way, as assessed by chromatin immunoprecipitation assays, and consists of one high affinity and one lower affinity Stat5b site, as determined by both qualitative and quantitative protein-DNA binding studies. In biochemical reconstitution experiments, both response elements are able to mediate GH-stimulated and Stat5b-dependent transcription when fused to a reporter gene containing either the major IGF-I promoter or aminimal neutral promoter, although the paired Stat5b sites located in the second IGF-I intron were more than twice as effective as the response element that mapped ∼73 kb 5′ to the IGF-I exon 1. Taken together, our results define the initial molecular architecture of a complicated GH-regulated transcriptional pathway, and suggest that apparently redundant hormone response elements provide amechanism for amplifying GH action at a physiologically important target gene.
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U2 - 10.1074/jbc.M510204200
DO - 10.1074/jbc.M510204200
M3 - Article
C2 - 16339156
AN - SCOPUS:33645649507
SN - 0021-9258
VL - 281
SP - 3190
EP - 3197
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
IS - 6
ER -