VDR/RXR and TCF4/β-catenin cistromes in colonic cells of colorectal tumor origin: impact on c-FOS and c-MYC gene expression

Mol Endocrinol. 2012 Jan;26(1):37-51. doi: 10.1210/me.2011-1109. Epub 2011 Nov 22.

Abstract

Many of the transcriptional and growth regulating activities of 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) [1,25-(OH)(2)D(3)] in the intestine and colon are recapitulated in the human colorectal cancer cell LS180. We therefore used this line together with chromatin immunoprecipitation-seq and gene expression analyses to identify the vitamin D receptor (VDR)/retinoid X receptor (RXR) and transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2/TCF4)/β-catenin cistromes and the genes that they regulate. VDR and RXR colocalized to predominantly promoter distal, vitamin D response element-containing sites in a largely ligand-dependent manner. These regulatory sites control the expression of both known as well as novel 1,25-(OH)(2)D(3) target genes. TCF4 and β-catenin cistromes partially overlapped, contained TCF/lymphoid enhancer-binding factor consensus elements, and were only modestly influenced by 1,25-(OH)(2)D(3). However, the two heterodimer complexes colocalized at sites near a limited set of genes that included c-FOS and c-MYC; the expression of both genes was modulated by 1,25-(OH)(2)D(3). At the c-FOS gene, both VDR/RXR and TCF4/β-catenin bound to a single distal enhancer located 24 kb upstream of the transcriptional start site. At the c-MYC locus, however, binding was noted at a cluster of sites between -139 and -165 kb and at a site located -335 kb upstream. Examined as isolated enhancer fragments, these regions exhibited basal and 1,25-(OH)(2)D(3)-inducible activities that were interlinked to both VDR and β-catenin activation. These data reveal additional complexity in the regulation of target genes by 1,25-(OH)(2)D(3) and support a direct action of both VDR and the TCF4/β-catenin regulatory complex at c-FOS and c-MYC.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors / genetics*
  • Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors / metabolism
  • Calcitriol / metabolism
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Cell Proliferation
  • Chromatin Immunoprecipitation
  • Colorectal Neoplasms
  • Gene Expression Regulation
  • Genes, fos*
  • Genes, myc*
  • Humans
  • Promoter Regions, Genetic
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos / biosynthesis*
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos / metabolism
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc / biosynthesis*
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc / metabolism
  • RNA Interference
  • RNA, Small Interfering
  • Receptors, Calcitriol / genetics*
  • Receptors, Calcitriol / metabolism
  • Retinoid X Receptors / genetics*
  • Retinoid X Receptors / metabolism
  • Transcription Factor 4
  • Transcription Factor 7-Like 2 Protein / genetics
  • Transcription Factor 7-Like 2 Protein / metabolism
  • Transcription Factors / genetics*
  • Transcription Factors / metabolism
  • Transcriptional Activation
  • Vitamin D Response Element / genetics
  • beta Catenin / genetics
  • beta Catenin / metabolism

Substances

  • Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors
  • MYC protein, human
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc
  • RNA, Small Interfering
  • Receptors, Calcitriol
  • Retinoid X Receptors
  • TCF4 protein, human
  • TCF7L2 protein, human
  • Transcription Factor 4
  • Transcription Factor 7-Like 2 Protein
  • Transcription Factors
  • beta Catenin
  • Calcitriol