PMID- 2550815 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19891025 LR - 20131121 IS - 0888-8809 (Print) IS - 0888-8809 (Linking) VI - 3 IP - 8 DP - 1989 Aug TI - A quantitative comparison of dual control of a hormone response element by progestins and glucocorticoids in the same cell line. PG - 1270-8 AB - Progesterone receptor-containing T47D human breast cancer cells are responsive to progestins but fail to respond to other steroid hormones, in particular dexamethasone, because they have no measurable levels of receptors for estrogens, androgens, or glucocorticoids. To quantitatively study dual responsiveness of the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) promoter to progestins and glucocorticoids, we have stably transfected T47D cells with a glucocorticoid receptor (GR) expression vector. A cloned derivative (A1-2) was isolated that expresses a normal, full length GR, as assessed by steroid binding and Western immunoblot with a monoclonal anti-GR antibody. Moreover, GR is expressed at levels (80,000-100,000 molecules per cell) comparable to the high levels of endogenous progesterone receptor (200,000 molecules per cell). In A1-2 cells transiently transfected with an MMTV-chloramphenicol acetyl transferase reporter gene, induction by glucocorticoid was substantially greater (5-fold) than induction mediated by progestins. These results suggest that glucocorticoids may be the primary regulator of MMTV. FAU - Nordeen, S K AU - Nordeen SK AD - Department of Pathology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262. FAU - Kuhnel, B AU - Kuhnel B FAU - Lawler-Heavner, J AU - Lawler-Heavner J FAU - Barber, D A AU - Barber DA FAU - Edwards, D P AU - Edwards DP LA - eng GR - CA-41386/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - CA-46938/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - DK-37061/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Mol Endocrinol JT - Molecular endocrinology (Baltimore, Md.) JID - 8801431 RN - 0 (Glucocorticoids) RN - 0 (Receptors, Glucocorticoid) RN - 0 (Receptors, Progesterone) RN - 4G7DS2Q64Y (Progesterone) SB - IM MH - Breast Neoplasms MH - Glucocorticoids/*physiology MH - Humans MH - Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/genetics MH - Plasmids MH - Progesterone/physiology MH - Promoter Regions, Genetic MH - Receptors, Glucocorticoid/*physiology MH - Receptors, Progesterone/*physiology MH - *Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid MH - Transfection MH - Tumor Cells, Cultured EDAT- 1989/08/01 00:00 MHDA- 1989/08/01 00:01 CRDT- 1989/08/01 00:00 PHST- 1989/08/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1989/08/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1989/08/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1210/mend-3-8-1270 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mol Endocrinol. 1989 Aug;3(8):1270-8. doi: 10.1210/mend-3-8-1270.