scholarly journals Baculovirus-mediated expression of retinoic acid receptor type gamma in cultured insect cells reveals a difference in specific DNA-binding behavior with the 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptor.

1992 ◽  
Vol 89 (21) ◽  
pp. 10282-10286 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. K. Ross ◽  
J. M. Prahl ◽  
I. M. Herzberg ◽  
H. F. DeLuca
1992 ◽  
Vol 287 (3) ◽  
pp. 833-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
A P Reddy ◽  
J Y Chen ◽  
T Zacharewski ◽  
H Gronemeyer ◽  
J J Voorhees ◽  
...  

The full-length cDNA for the human retinoic acid receptor-gamma 1 (RAR-gamma 1) has been expressed to high levels in Spodoptera frugiferda (Sf9) cells using the baculovirus expression system. Western blot analysis revealed that RAR-gamma 1 expression increased between 32 and 60 h post-infection. The recombinant receptor was expressed primarily as a nuclear protein and displayed a molecular mass of 50 kDa as determined by SDS/PAGE and gel-filtration chromatography, consistent with its cDNA-deduced size. Based on ligand binding, 2 x 10(6) RAR-gamma 1 molecules were expressed per Sf9 cell, a level approx. 2000 times greater than in mammalian cells. The receptor was partially purified 300-fold by sequential anion-exchange, gel-filtration and DNA affinity chromatographies. The overexpressed receptor specifically bound all-trans-retinoic acid (RA) and the synthetic retinoid CD367 with high affinity (Kd 0.15 nM and 0.23 nM respectively). The RA metabolites 4-hydroxy-RA and 4-oxo-RA were poor competitors for [3H]CD367 binding to recombinant RAR-gamma 1 (K(i) > 1 microM), indicating that 4-oxidation of RA greatly reduces its affinity for RAR-gamma 1. Gel-retardation analysis demonstrated that RAR-gamma 1 specifically bound the RA response element of the mouse RAR-beta gene. RAR-gamma 1 species expressed from recombinant baculovirus (in Sf9 cells) and vaccinia virus (in HeLa cells) exhibited similar affinities for RA and CD367 and had comparable DNA-binding properties in gel-retardation experiments. Moreover, a similar requirement for additional DNA-binding stimulatory factor(s) was observed in both cases. These results provide a basis for the use of baculovirus-expressed RAR-gamma 1 in further functional and structural studies.


2014 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 113-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Martinez-Zapien ◽  
Marc-André Delsuc ◽  
Gilles Travé ◽  
Régis Lutzing ◽  
Cécile Rochette-Egly ◽  
...  

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Feng Zhou ◽  
Xi-Qiang Shen ◽  
Lirim Shemshedini

Abstract In the presence of retinoic acid (RA), the retinoid receptors, retinoic acid receptor (RAR) and retinoid X receptor (RXR), are able to up-regulate transcription directly by binding to RA-responsive elements on the promoters of responsive genes. Liganded RARs and RXRs are also capable of down-regulating transcription, but, by contrast, this is an indirect effect, mediated by the interaction of these nuclear receptors not with DNA but the transcription factor activating protein-1 (AP-1). AP-1 is a dimeric complex of the protooncoproteins c-Jun and c-Fos and directly regulates transcription of genes important for cellular growth. Previous in vitro results have suggested that RARs can block AP-1 DNA binding. Using a mammalian two-hybrid system, we report here that human RARα (hRARα) can disrupt in a RA-dependent manner the homo- and heterodimerization properties of c-Jun and c-Fos. This inhibition of dimerization is cell specific, occurring only in those cells that exhibit RA-induced repression of AP-1 transcriptional activity. Furthermore, this mechanism appears to be specific for the RARs, since another potent inhibitor of AP-1 activity, the glucocorticoid receptor, does not affect AP-1 dimerization. Our data argue for a novel mechanism by which RARs can repress AP-1 DNA binding, in which liganded RARs are able to interfere with c-Jun/c-Jun homodimerization and c-Jun/c-Fos heterodimerization and, in this way, may prevent the formation of AP-1 complexes capable of DNA binding.


1996 ◽  
Vol 271 (30) ◽  
pp. 17996-18006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Rachez ◽  
Pierre Sautière ◽  
Pierre Formstecher ◽  
Philippe Lefebvre

1994 ◽  
Vol 107 (4) ◽  
pp. 827-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.V. Frangioni ◽  
N. Moghal ◽  
A. Stuart-Tilley ◽  
B.G. Neel ◽  
S.L. Alper

We have developed a family of mammalian coexpression vectors that permit identification of living or fixed cells overexpressing a gene of interest by surrogate detection of a coexpressed marker protein. Using these ‘pMARK’ vectors, a fluorescence-based, single cell proliferation assay was developed and used to study the effect of retinoic acid receptor beta (RAR-beta) on cell cycling. We demonstrate that transient overexpression of RAR-beta in the presence, but not absence, of all-trans retinoic acid results in a dramatic suppression of cell proliferation. We further show that this effect requires the DNA binding (C) domain of RAR-beta. It has been previously shown that RAR-beta expression is markedly altered in a variety of neoplasms and cell lines. Our data support the hypothesis that loss of RAR-beta may contribute to tumor progression by removing normal restraints on proliferation. The pMARK vectors should be useful for studying other genes that putatively suppress or enhance proliferation.


2003 ◽  
Vol 170 (7) ◽  
pp. 3577-3584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Éva Szegezdi ◽  
Ildikó Kiss ◽  
Ágnes Simon ◽  
Bernadett Blaskó ◽  
Uwe Reichert ◽  
...  

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