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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-12-20
pubmed:abstractText
Androgen signaling via the androgen receptor (AR) transcription factor is crucial to normal prostate homeostasis and prostate tumorigenesis. Current models of AR function are predominantly based on studies of prostate-specific antigen regulation in androgen-responsive cell lines. To expand on these in vitro paradigms, we used the mouse prostate to elucidate the mechanisms through which AR regulates another direct target, FKBP5, in vivo. FKBP5 encodes an immunophilin that has been previously implicated in glucocorticoid and progestin signaling pathways and that likely influences prostate physiology in the presence of androgens. In this work, we show that androgens directly regulate FKBP5 via an interaction between the AR and a distal enhancer located 65 kb downstream of the transcription start site in the fifth intron of the FKBP5 gene. We have found that AR selectively recruits cAMP response element-binding protein to this enhancer. These interactions, in turn, result in chromatin remodeling that affects the enhancer proper but not the FKBP5 locus as a whole. Furthermore, in contrast to prostate-specific antigen-regulatory mechanisms, we show that transactivation of the FKBP5 gene does not rely on a single looping complex to mediate communication between the distal enhancer and proximal promoter. Rather, the distal enhancer complex and basal transcription apparatus communicate indirectly with one another, implicating a regulatory mechanism that has not been previously appreciated for AR target genes.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0013-7227
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
147
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
590-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Conserved Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Enhancer Elements, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Introns, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Male, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Orchiectomy, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Prostate, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Receptors, Androgen, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Tacrolimus Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16210365-Transcription, Genetic
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Direct, androgen receptor-mediated regulation of the FKBP5 gene via a distal enhancer element.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural