MCB
Home Help [Feedback] [For Subscribers] [Archive] [Search] [Contents]
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowReprints and Permissions
Right arrow Copyright Information
Right arrow Books from ASM Press
Right arrow MicrobeWorld
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Trotter, K. W.
Right arrow Articles by Archer, T. K.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Trotter, K. W.
Right arrow Articles by Archer, T. K.

 Previous Article  |  Next Article 

Molecular and Cellular Biology, April 2004, p. 3347-3358, Vol. 24, No. 8
0270-7306/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.8.3347-3358.2004

Reconstitution of Glucocorticoid Receptor-Dependent Transcription In Vivo

Kevin W. Trotter and Trevor K. Archer*

Chromatin and Gene Expression Section, Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709

Received 2 December 2003/ Returned for modification 5 January 2004/ Accepted 27 January 2004

We developed a model system to study glucocorticoid receptor (GR)-mediated chromatin remodeling by the BRG1 complex. Introduction of the BRG1 ATPase into the SW-13 cell line initiates the formation of a functional remodeling complex. This complex is able to induce transcriptional activation from a transiently transfected promoter with wild-type and chromatin-remodeling-deficient BRG1 mutants, suggesting that the complex possesses a coactivator function independent from remodeling. Transactivation from a chromatin template requires the BRG1 remodeling function, which induces regions of hypersensitivity and transcription factor loading onto the integrated MMTV promoter. We report that BRG1 remodeling activity is required for GR-mediated transactivation and that this activity cannot be replaced by other ATP-dependent remodeling proteins. Further characterization of the BRG1-associated factors (BAFs) present in these cells (for example, the expression of BAF250 but not BAF180) reveals that the BAF complex rather than the polybromo-associated BAF complex is the necessary and sufficient chromatin-remodeling component with which the receptor functions in vivo. These results in conjunction with previous findings demonstrate that the GR functions with multiple forms of the SWI/SNF complex in vivo.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T. W. Alexander Dr., P. O. Box 12233 (MD E4-06), Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. Phone: (919) 316-4565. Fax: (919) 316-4566. E-mail: archer1{at}niehs.nih.gov.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, April 2004, p. 3347-3358, Vol. 24, No. 8
0022-538X/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.8.3347-3358.2004




This article has been cited by other articles:



Home Help [Feedback] [For Subscribers] [Archive] [Search] [Contents]
J. Bacteriol. J. Virol. Eukaryot. Cell
Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. Clin. Vaccine Immunol. All ASM Journals

Copyright © 2004 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.