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Mol Cell Biol, April 1998, p. 1911-1918, Vol. 18, No. 4
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A Differential Screen for Ligand-Regulated Genes:
Identification of HoxA10 as a Target of Vitamin
D3 Induction in Myeloid Leukemic Cells
Nynke Y.
Rots,
Min
Liu,
Eric C.
Anderson, and
Leonard P.
Freedman*
Cell Biology Program, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021
Received 21 October 1997/Returned for modification 4 December
1997/Accepted 9 January 1998
1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3
[1,25(OH)2D3], the hormonal ligand for
vitamin D3, is a potent inducer of myeloid-leukemic-cell
differentiation. Such cells differentiate exclusively into
monocytes/macrophages in response to this ligand. Since
1,25(OH)2D3 transduces its hormone signal
through the vitamin D3 receptor (VDR), a ligand-modulated transcription factor and member of the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily, we sought to identify direct VDR target genes induced during this differentiation process. To do so, we applied a modified differential screen with a nascent-RNA purification strategy using biases for immediate-early-response genes induced by
1,25(OH)2D3 in the myelomonocytic cell line
U937. Using this screen, we had previously identified
p21Waf1/Cip1 as a gene transcriptionally
induced by 1,25(OH)2D3 and demonstrated that
this induction facilitates the differentiation of U937 cells into
monocytes/macrophages (24). Here, we describe in detail our differential screen strategy and the identification and isolation of 20 1,25(OH)2D3-inducible genes or unknown cDNAs by
means of this screen. One gene newly identified as a target of VDR
regulation in myeloid cells is the homeobox HoxA10 gene.
HoxA10 protein may act as a general regulator of cell growth, since
overexpression of HoxA10 facilitated the differentiation of U937 cells
into monocytes/macrophages independent of
1,25(OH)2D3 and acted to strongly inhibit the
growth of the breast cancer cell line MCF-7 by arresting these cells in
G1.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Cell Biology
Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave., New
York, NY 10021. Phone: (212) 639-2976. Fax: (212) 717-3298. E-mail: l-freedman{at}ski.mskcc.org.

Present address: Dept. of Cell Biology, Baylor School of Medicine,
Houston, TX 77030.
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