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. 1992 Sep;12(9):4153-63.
doi: 10.1128/mcb.12.9.4153-4163.1992.

Chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter transcription factor (COUP-TF) dimers bind to different GGTCA response elements, allowing COUP-TF to repress hormonal induction of the vitamin D3, thyroid hormone, and retinoic acid receptors

A J Cooney  1 , S Y Tsai, B W O'Malley, M J Tsai
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Chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter transcription factor (COUP-TF) dimers bind to different GGTCA response elements, allowing COUP-TF to repress hormonal induction of the vitamin D3, thyroid hormone, and retinoic acid receptors

A J Cooney et al. Mol Cell Biol. 1992 Sep.

Abstract

Alignment of natural chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter transcription factor (COUP-TF) response elements shows that, in addition to the predominant direct repeat of the GGTCA motif with a 2-bp spacing, there are other functional COUP elements with variations in the GGTCA orientation and spacing. We systematically analyzed the binding of in vitro-synthesized COUP-TFs and showed that COUP-TF is capable of binding to oligonucleotides containing both direct repeats and palindromes and with different spacings of the GGTCA repeats. Subsequently, we analyzed four possible mechanisms proposed to explain how COUP-TF could bind to these spatial variations of the GGTCA repeat. We demonstrated that the functional DNA-binding form of COUP-TF is a dimer which requires two GGTCA half-sites to bind DNA. We demonstrated that the COUP-TF dimer undergoes a remarkable structural adaptation to accommodate binding to these spatial variants of the GGTCA repeats. A functional consequence of the promiscuous DNA binding of COUP-TF is its ability to down-regulate hormonal induction of target gene expression by other members of the steroid-thyroid hormone receptor superfamily such as the vitamin D3, thyroid hormone, and retinoic acid receptors. Our data indicate that COUP-TF may have an important role in hormonal regulation of gene expression by these receptors.

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