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Endocrinology Vol. 140, No. 1 63-70
Copyright © 1999 by The Endocrine Society

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AP-1 and Vitamin D Receptor (VDR) Signaling Pathways Converge at the Rat Osteocalcin VDR Element: Requirement for the Internal Activating Protein-1 Site for Vitamin D-Mediated Trans-Activation1

Fauzia Aslam, Laura McCabe2, Baruch Frenkel, André J. van Wijnen, Gary S. Stein, Jane B. Lian and Janet L. Stein

Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to the authors at: Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655-0106.

Responsiveness of genes to steroid hormones is a complex process involving synergistic and/or antagonistic interactions between specific receptors and other nonreceptor transcription factors. Thus, DNA recognition elements for steroid hormone receptors are often located among binding sites for other trans-acting factors. The hormonal form of vitamin D, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, stimulates transcription of the tissue-specific osteocalcin (OC) gene in osteoblastic cells. The rat OC vitamin D response element contains an internal acitvating protein-1 (AP-1) site. Here, we report for the first time that this AP-1 site is critical for the transcriptional enhancement of rat osteocalcin gene expression mediated by vitamin D. Precise mutations were introduced either in the steroid half-elements or in the internal AP-1 sequences. One mutation within the internal AP-1 site retained vitamin D receptor/retinoid X receptor binding equivalent to that of the wild-type sequence, but resulted in complete loss of vitamin D inducibility of the OC promoter. These results suggest a functional interaction between the hormone receptor and nuclear oncoproteins at the rat OC vitamin D response element. This cooperation of activities may have important consequences in physiological regulation of osteocalcin transcription during osteoblast differentiation and bone tissue development in vivo.




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