PMID- 7626514 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19950907 LR - 20190830 IS - 0960-0760 (Print) IS - 0960-0760 (Linking) VI - 53 IP - 1-6 DP - 1995 Jun TI - Receptor mediated genomic action of the 1,25(OH)2D3 hormone: expression of the human vitamin D receptor in E. coli. PG - 583-94 AB - The nuclear vitamin D receptor (VDR) binds the 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D3) hormone with high affinity and elicits its actions to stimulate gene expression in target cells by binding to the vitamin D-responsive element (VDRE). VDREs in such positively controlled genes as osteocalcin, osteopontin, beta 3 integrin and vitamin D-24-OHase are direct hexanucleotide repeats with a spacer of three nucleotides. The present studies of VDR/VDRE interaction utilized full-length human vitamin D receptor (hVDR) that was overexpressed in E. coli, purified to near homogeneity (> 95%), and its authenticity confirmed by demonstrating high affinity hormone binding and reactivity to monoclonal antibody 9A7 gamma. The expressed hVDR displays strict dependence on the family of retinoid X receptors (RXRs) for binding to the vitamin D-responsive element (VDRE) in the rat osteocalcin gene. Similar overexpression in E. coli of the DNA binding domain (delta 134), containing only residues 4-133 of hVDR, generated a receptor species that possesses intrinsic DNA binding activity. Both full-length and delta 134 hVDRs retain similar DNA binding specificities when tested with several natural hormone responsive elements, indicating that the N-terminal zinc finger region determines hVDR-DNA sequence selectivity. The C-terminal region of the molecule is required for hormone binding and confers the receptor with the property of very high affinity DNA binding, via heterodimerization between hVDR and RXR. A natural ligand for the RXR co-receptor, 9-cis retinoic acid, suppresses both VDR-RXR binding to the VDRE and 1,25(OH)2D3 stimulated transcription, indicating that 9-cis retinoic acid recruits RXR away from VDR to instead form RXR homodimers. FAU - Hsieh, J C AU - Hsieh JC AD - Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson 85724, USA. FAU - Nakajima, S AU - Nakajima S FAU - Galligan, M A AU - Galligan MA FAU - Jurutka, P W AU - Jurutka PW FAU - Haussler, C A AU - Haussler CA FAU - Whitfield, G K AU - Whitfield GK FAU - Haussler, M R AU - Haussler MR LA - eng GR - AR15781/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/United States GR - DK33351/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - DK40372/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - England TA - J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol JT - The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology JID - 9015483 RN - 0 (DNA-Binding Proteins) RN - 0 (Oligodeoxyribonucleotides) RN - 0 (Receptors, Calcitriol) RN - 0 (Recombinant Proteins) RN - FXC9231JVH (Calcitriol) SB - IM GS - VDR MH - Base Sequence MH - Calcitriol/*physiology MH - Cloning, Molecular MH - DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry/genetics MH - Escherichia coli MH - Humans MH - In Vitro Techniques MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/chemistry MH - Receptors, Calcitriol/chemistry/*genetics MH - Recombinant Proteins MH - Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid MH - Structure-Activity Relationship EDAT- 1995/06/01 00:00 MHDA- 1995/06/01 00:01 CRDT- 1995/06/01 00:00 PHST- 1995/06/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1995/06/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1995/06/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - 0960-0760(95)00112-D [pii] AID - 10.1016/0960-0760(95)00112-d [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 1995 Jun;53(1-6):583-94. doi: 10.1016/0960-0760(95)00112-d.