PMID- 22661711 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20121011 LR - 20211021 IS - 1083-351X (Electronic) IS - 0021-9258 (Print) IS - 0021-9258 (Linking) VI - 287 IP - 31 DP - 2012 Jul 27 TI - Retinoic acid receptors recognize the mouse genome through binding elements with diverse spacing and topology. PG - 26328-41 LID - 10.1074/jbc.M112.361790 [doi] AB - Retinoic acid receptors (RARs) heterodimerize with retinoid X receptors (RXRs) and bind to RA response elements (RAREs) in the regulatory regions of their target genes. Although previous studies on limited sets of RA-regulated genes have defined canonical RAREs as direct repeats of the consensus RGKTCA separated by 1, 2, or 5 nucleotides (DR1, DR2, DR5), we show that in mouse embryoid bodies or F9 embryonal carcinoma cells, RARs occupy a large repertoire of sites with DR0, DR8, and IR0 (inverted repeat 0) elements. Recombinant RAR-RXR binds these non-canonical spacings in vitro with comparable affinities to DR2 and DR5. Most DR8 elements comprise three half-sites with DR2 and DR0 spacings. This specific half-site organization constitutes a previously unrecognized but frequent signature of RAR binding elements. In functional assays, DR8 and IR0 elements act as independent RAREs, whereas DR0 does not. Our results reveal an unexpected diversity in the spacing and topology of binding elements for the RAR-RXR heterodimer. The differential ability of RAR-RXR bound to DR0 compared to DR2, DR5, and DR8 to mediate RA-dependent transcriptional activation indicates that half-site spacing allosterically regulates RAR function. FAU - Moutier, Emmanuel AU - Moutier E AD - Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/UDS, 1 Rue Laurent Fries, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, France. FAU - Ye, Tao AU - Ye T FAU - Choukrallah, Mohamed-Amin AU - Choukrallah MA FAU - Urban, Sylvia AU - Urban S FAU - Osz, Judit AU - Osz J FAU - Chatagnon, Amandine AU - Chatagnon A FAU - Delacroix, Laurence AU - Delacroix L FAU - Langer, Diana AU - Langer D FAU - Rochel, Natacha AU - Rochel N FAU - Moras, Dino AU - Moras D FAU - Benoit, Gerard AU - Benoit G FAU - Davidson, Irwin AU - Davidson I LA - eng SI - GEO/GSE35599 PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20120601 PL - United States TA - J Biol Chem JT - The Journal of biological chemistry JID - 2985121R RN - 0 (Receptors, Retinoic Acid) RN - 0 (Retinoid X Receptors) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Base Sequence MH - Binding Sites MH - Binding, Competitive MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Chromatin Immunoprecipitation MH - Coculture Techniques MH - Consensus Sequence MH - Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay MH - Embryoid Bodies/metabolism MH - Genome MH - Mice MH - Protein Binding MH - Receptors, Retinoic Acid/chemistry/*metabolism MH - Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid MH - *Response Elements MH - Retinoid X Receptors/chemistry/*metabolism MH - Sequence Analysis, DNA MH - Titrimetry MH - Transcription, Genetic PMC - PMC3406717 EDAT- 2012/06/05 06:00 MHDA- 2012/10/12 06:00 PMCR- 2013/07/27 CRDT- 2012/06/05 06:00 PHST- 2012/06/05 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/06/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/10/12 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2013/07/27 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0021-9258(20)73644-6 [pii] AID - M112.361790 [pii] AID - 10.1074/jbc.M112.361790 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Biol Chem. 2012 Jul 27;287(31):26328-41. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.361790. Epub 2012 Jun 1.