PUBLICATION
Regulatory interactions among three members of the vertebrate aryl hydrocarbon receptor family: AHR repressor, AHR1, and AHR2
- Authors
- Karchner, S.I., Franks, D.G., Powell, W.H., and Hahn, M.E.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-020110-1
- Date
- 2002
- Source
- The Journal of biological chemistry 277(9): 6949-6959 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Hahn, Mark E.
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors
- COS Cells
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA Primers/pharmacology
- DNA, Complementary/metabolism
- Fishes
- Genome
- Humans
- Ligands
- Luciferases/metabolism
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Protein Binding
- RNA/metabolism
- Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon/metabolism*
- Repressor Proteins/metabolism*
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Tissue Distribution
- Transcription, Genetic
- Transcriptional Activation
- PubMed
- 11742002 Full text @ J. Biol. Chem.
Citation
Karchner, S.I., Franks, D.G., Powell, W.H., and Hahn, M.E. (2002) Regulatory interactions among three members of the vertebrate aryl hydrocarbon receptor family: AHR repressor, AHR1, and AHR2. The Journal of biological chemistry. 277(9):6949-6959.
Abstract
The effects of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and related compounds occur via the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR), a member of the bHLH-PAS protein superfamily. A single AHR gene has been identified in mammals, while many fish species, including the Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) possess two distinct AHR genes (AHR1 and a novel form, AHR2). A mouse bHLH-PAS protein closely related to AHR and designated AHR repressor (AHRR) is induced by 3-methylcholanthrene and represses the transcriptional activity of the AHR. To determine whether AHRR is the mammalian ortholog of fish AHR2 and to investigate the mechanisms by which AHRR regulates AHR function, we cloned an AHRR ortholog in F. heteroclitus with high sequence identity to the mouse and human AHRRs. Killifish AHRR encodes a 680 residue protein with a predicted molecular mass of 75.2 kDa. We show that in vitro-expressed AHRR proteins from human, mouse, and killifish all fail to bind [3H]TCDD or [3H]b-naphthoflavone. In transient transfection experiments using a luciferase reporter gene under control of AHR response elements, killifish AHRR inhibited the TCDD-dependent transactivation function of both AHR1 and AHR2. AHRR mRNA is widely expressed in killifish tissues and is inducible by TCDD or polychlorinated biphenyls, but its expression is not altered in a population of fish exhibiting genetic resistance to these compounds. The F. heteroclitus AHRR promoter contains three putative AHR response elements. Both AHR1 and AHR2 activated transcription of luciferase driven by the AHRR promoter, and AHRR could repress its own promoter. Thus, AHRR is an evolutionarily conserved, TCDD-inducible repressor of AHR1 and AHR2 function. Phylogenetic analysis shows that AHRR, AHR1, and AHR2 are distinct genes, members of an AHR gene family; these three vertebrate AHR-like genes descended from a single invertebrate AHR.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping