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    Mol Cell Biol. 2003 Nov;23(21):7920-5.

    Agonist and chemopreventative ligands induce differential transcriptional cofactor recruitment by aryl hydrocarbon receptor.

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    Department of Molecular Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

    Abstract

    Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a transcription factor whose activity is regulated by environmental agents, including several carcinogenic agonists. We measured recruitment of AHR and associated proteins to the human cytochrome P4501A1 gene promoter in vivo. Upon treatment with the agonist beta-naphthoflavone, AHR is rapidly associated with the promoter and recruits the three members of the p160 family of coactivators as well as the p300 histone acetyltransferase, leading to recruitment of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) and induction of gene transcription. AHR, coactivators, and Pol II cycle on and off the promoter, with a period of approximately 60 min. In contrast, the chemopreventative AHR ligand 3,3'-diindolylmethane promotes AHR nuclear translocation and p160 coactivator recruitment but, remarkably, fails to recruit Pol II or cause histone acetylation. This novel mechanism of receptor antagonism may account for the antitumor properties of chemopreventative compounds targeting the AHR.

    PMID:
    14560034
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
    PMCID: PMC207605
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