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Mol. Cell. Biol., Feb 1995, 1005-1013, Vol 15, No. 2
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Hormone-independent repression of AP-1-inducible collagenase promoter activity by glucocorticoid receptors

W Liu, AG Hillmann and JM Harmon
Department of Pharmacology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-4799.

The role of the ligand in glucocorticoid receptor-mediated transactivation and transrepression of gene expression was investigated. Half-maximal transactivation of a mouse mammary tumor virus-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene in transfected cells expressing the human glucocorticoid receptor mutant GRL753F, from which the rate of ligand dissociation is four to five times higher than the rate of dissociation from normal receptors, required a 200- to 300- fold-higher concentration of dexamethasone than was required in cells expressing the normal receptor. Immunocytochemical analysis demonstrated that this difference was not the result of a failure of the mutant receptor to accumulate in the nucleus after steroid treatment. In contrast, in cells cotransfected with a reporter gene containing the AP-1-inducible collagenase gene promoter, the concentration of dexamethasone required for 50% transrepression was the same for mutant and normal receptors. Efficient receptor-mediated transrepression was also observed with the double mutant GRL753F/C421Y, in which the first cysteine residue of the proximal zinc finger has been replaced by tyrosine, indicating that neither retention of the ligand nor direct binding of the receptor to DNA is required. RU38486 behaved as a full agonist with respect to transrepression. In addition, receptor-dependent transrepression, but not transactivation, was observed in transfected cells after heat shock in the absence of the ligand. Taken together, these results suggest that unlike transactivation, transrepression of AP-1 activity by the nuclear glucocorticoid receptor is ligand independent.

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