| Literature DB >> 17379398 |
Sara A DiVall1, Sally Radovick, Andrew Wolfe.
Abstract
Insulin increases gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) gene expression in in vitro models of GnRH neurons. Early growth response-1 (Egr-1) is a transcription factor that mediates the effect of insulin on target genes. In the GN11 cell line--an immortalized GnRH-secreting neuronal cell line--insulin maximally increases Egr-1 mRNA after 30min of treatment and Egr-1 protein and GnRH mRNA after 60min of treatment. Egr-1 small interfering RNA blocks the insulin-induced increase in GnRH promoter activity, measured as luciferase expression. Chromatin immunoprecipitation using Egr-1 antibody precipitates DNA in a proximal region of the GnRH promoter but not DNA in a distal region. Mutagenesis of a putative Egr-1 binding site within the proximal region blocks the insulin-induced increase in GnRH promoter activity. Thus, Egr-1 binds the GnRH promoter at a site between -67 and -76bp from the transcriptional start site to mediate the insulin-induced increase in GnRH gene transcription.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17379398 PMCID： PMC1976257 DOI： 10.1016/j.mce.2007.02.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Cell Endocrinol ISSN： 0303-7207 Impact factor: 4.102