PMID- 10788445 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20000601 LR - 20210209 IS - 0021-9258 (Print) IS - 0021-9258 (Linking) VI - 275 IP - 18 DP - 2000 May 5 TI - A conserved nuclear receptor consensus sequence (DR-4) mediates transcriptional activation of the chicken CYP2H1 gene by phenobarbital in a hepatoma cell line. PG - 13362-9 AB - Phenobarbital-responsive DNA elements were identified in the 5'-flanking region of the chicken CYP2H1 gene by in reporter gene assays in a chicken hepatoma cell line (leghorn male hepatoma (LMH)). A 264-base pair (bp) enhancer sequence (phenobarbital-responsive unit (PBRU)) responded to phenobarbital and a variety of phenobarbital-type inducers. Analysis of putative transcription factor binding sites within the 264-bp element revealed a nuclear receptor half-site repeat (DR-4) neighboring a putative nuclear factor-1 site. This motif resembles phenobarbital response elements in the flanking regions of three phenobarbital-inducible genes, rat CYP2B2, mouse Cyp2b10, and human CYP2B6. Activation of the 264-bp element was eliminated after site-directed mutagenesis of the DR-4 hexamer half-sites. Evidence for evolutionary conservation of this recognition site was indicated by activation in LMH cells of a mouse Cyp2b10 phenobarbital-responsive enhancer by the same spectrum of inducers that activate the CYP2H1 264-bp PBRU. Inhibition of this activation by okadaic acid may explain the reported inhibitory effects on induction of CYP2B1/2 and Cyp2b10 by this phosphatase inhibitor. We show that this inhibition occurs directly on the 264-bp PBRU, whereas the proximal promoter of CYP2H1 is induced by okadaic acid in reporter gene assays. These experiments exploit the unique phenobarbital inducibility of the hepatoma-derived cell line LMH. FAU - Handschin, C AU - Handschin C AD - Department of Pharmacology/Neurobiology, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland. FAU - Meyer, U A AU - Meyer UA LA - eng SI - GENBANK/AF236668 PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - J Biol Chem JT - The Journal of biological chemistry JID - 2985121R RN - 0 (Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists) RN - 0 (Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear) RN - 9035-51-2 (Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System) RN - YQE403BP4D (Phenobarbital) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Base Sequence MH - Conserved Sequence MH - Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System/*genetics MH - Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists/*pharmacology MH - Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/drug effects MH - Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/drug effects MH - Humans MH - Liver Neoplasms, Experimental/*genetics MH - Male MH - Mice MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Phenobarbital/*pharmacology MH - Rats MH - Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/*genetics MH - Sequence Alignment MH - Transcriptional Activation/*drug effects MH - Tumor Cells, Cultured EDAT- 2000/05/02 09:00 MHDA- 2000/06/03 09:00 CRDT- 2000/05/02 09:00 PHST- 2000/05/02 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2000/06/03 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2000/05/02 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0021-9258(19)80695-6 [pii] AID - 10.1074/jbc.275.18.13362 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Biol Chem. 2000 May 5;275(18):13362-9. doi: 10.1074/jbc.275.18.13362.