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Characterization of the Nuclear Factor-B Responsiveness of the Human dio2 Gene

Laboratory of Endocrine Neurobiology (A.Z., J.M., Z.L., C.F., B.G.), Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Department of Neuroscience (Z.L.), Faculty of Information Technology, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest H-1083, Hungary; Department of Physiology and Biochemistry (M.D., I.K.), Faculty of Veterinary Science, Szent István University, H-1400 Budapest, Hungary; Division Medical Biochemistry (M.C.H.), Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria; Thyroid Section (L.P.C., W.S.d.S., A.C.B.), Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115; and Tupper Research Institute and Department of Medicine (C.F.), Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Boston, Massachusetts 02111

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Dr. Balázs Gereben, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Laboratory of Endocrine Neurobiology, Szigony u. 43, Budapest H-1083 Hungary. E-mail: gereben{at}koki.hu.

Type 2 iodothyronine deiodinase (D2) activates T₄ by deiodination to T₃, a process being the source of most T₃ present in the brain. In the mediobasal hypothalamus, expression of the dio2 gene is potently activated by administration of bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which in turn mediates the modifications in thyroid homeostasis typically observed in patients with nonthyroidal illness syndrome. Here we show that LPS-induced D2 expression is also observed in human MSTO-211H cells that endogenously express D2. Exposure to LPS rapidly doubled D2 activity by a mechanism that was partially blocked by the nuclear factor-B (NF-B) inhibitor sulfasalazine. Next, the human dio2 5'-flanking region promoter assay was used in HC11 cells and the p65/NF-B responsiveness mapped to the 3' approximately 600-bp region of hdio2 5'-flanking region, with an approximately 15-fold induction. Semiquantitative EMSA identified the strongest NF-B binding sites at the positions –683 bp (called no. 2) and –198 bp (no. 5) 5' to the transcriptional starting site. Despite the very similar NF-B binding affinity of these two sites, site-directed mutagenesis and promoter assay indicated that only site no. 5 possessed transactivation potency in the presence of the p65 subunit of NF-B. Other cytokine mediators such as signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 (STAT3) or signal transducer and activator of transcription-5 (STAT5) did not induce transcription of the dio2 gene. Our results indicate that inflammatory signals regulate D2 expression predominantly via the NF-B pathway in a direct transcriptional manner and could contribute to the changes in thyroid economy observed in nonthyroidal illness syndrome during infection.

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